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Letter "P" » prairies
«The brawny mix of extraordinary sights-weather, politics, races, imagination, corruption and athletics. They clash and mingle here where the broad prairies that are the world's most fertile collection of farm fields meet the vast Great Lakes that are the world's largest collection of fresh water.»
Author: Andrew H. Malcolm
| Keywords:
athletics, brawny, clash, collection, farm, fresh water, Great Lakes, largest, mingle, prairie, prairies, sights
«One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.»
«While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,Let us all be grateful for a land so fair,As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer:God Bless America.Land that I loveStand beside her, and guide herThru the night with a light from above.From the mountains, to the prairies,To the oceans, white with foamGod bless AmericaMy home sweet home.God Bless America,Land that I loveStand beside her,And guide her,Through the nightWith the light from above,From the mountains,To the prairies,To the ocean,White with foam,God bless America,My home sweet home.God bless America,My home sweet home.»
Author: Irving Berlin
(Composer)
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allegiance, foam, foaming, God Bless America, oceans, prairie, prairies, Raise Your Voice, solemn, White Sea
«Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our self-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery.»
Author: John Cheever
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bewilderment, cherished, concepts, jeopardize, jeopardized, mugger, muggers, prairie, prairies, predatory, property rights, scorn, self-discovery, self esteem, thieves, throe, throes
«The wealth of the tall grass prairie was its undoing.»
«The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.»
«When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner li»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
glisten, glistening, Hill Country, plains, prairie, prairies
«To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.»
«It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town, out here on the edge of the prairie»
«Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes the hard rocks of Manhattan»
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