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«Edward VIII replaced his fly buttons with a zip, a revolutionary move; and his Fair Isle pullovers, shorts and Windsor knots were considered by some to foreshadow the end of Empire.»
Author: Angus McGill
| Keywords:
buttons, Edward, Edward G, Edward VIII, foreshadow, isle, knots, shorts, VIII, zip, zips, zip up
«It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.»
«We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.»
«I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
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«Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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«With Donne whose muse on dromedary trots, / Wreathe iron pokers into true-love knots.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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Donne, dromedaries, dromedary, knots, pokers, trot, trots, trotted, Trotting, wreathe, wreathed
«Another person on silence sits alone, but his heart is tied in knots of desire.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
knots
«Remember, every song sung in praise of the Lord is a sword that cuts the knots of laziness. It is a fine piece of social service to remind all of their duty to the Almighty, who watches over them.?»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
Almighty, cuts, knots, knotted, laziness, remind, social service, Sung, the Almighty
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