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«In time the savage bull sustains the yoke, / In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure. / In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, / In time the flint is pierced with softest shower.»
Author: Thomas Kyd | Keywords: bull, cleave, cleaved, cleaving, cleft, Flint, flints, haggard, hawking, hawks, in time, lure, lured, lures, luring, oak, pierced, pierces, piercing, savage, shower, softest, stoop, sustains, wedge, wedges, yoke, yoked, yokes
«Meanwhile, in the broad and lofty chamber set apart for occasions of import, the Abbot himself was pacing impatiently backwards and forwards, with his long white nervous hands clasped in front of him. His thin, thought-worn features and sunken, haggard cheeks bespoke one who had indeed beaten down that inner foe whom every man must face, but had none the less suffered sorely in the contest. In crushing his passions he had well-nigh crushed himself.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. | Keywords: abbot, bespeak, bespeaks, bespoke, cheeks, clasp, clasped, crushed, forwards, haggard, impatiently, import, imports, lofty, nigh, of import, pacing, set apart, sorely, sunken, wear down
«It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness / calling their denial knowledge.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: devastation, haggard, The Seeds, trivialities, triviality
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