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Letter "P" » palms
«To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.»
«We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(Writer)
| Keywords:
astrology, balderdash, fanatic, harmless, palmed, palms, safer, superstition
«My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!»
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(Orator, Playwright, Politician)
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ooze, oozed, oozes, oozing, palms, sneaking, valor
«Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands, / Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee? / Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee.»
«Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans -which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambezi.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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hedgerow, hedgerows, instructed, linger, nourished, palms, The Theatre, tropics, vagrancy, Zambezi
«The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.»
«O devotees, praise the Lord with your palms pressed together; the Lord saves His humble devotees.»
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