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«Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.»
Author: Anthony Powell
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.»
«The juggernaut -- the best and biggest military force in the world -- lumbers on, doing what it knows how to do best. It is unwilling to rethink its future, unable to let go of the past. Like the shark, it must keep feeding, only now it is feeding on itself.»
Author: William Greider
| Keywords:
feeding, Juggernaut, lumbering, lumbers, military force, rethink, rethinking, shark, sharks, unwilling
«A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
| About:
Libraries,
Mankind
| Keywords:
furniture, lumber, lumbering, lumbers, lumber room, put away, stocked, stocked with
«With loads of learned lumber in his head.»
«The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| Keywords:
blockhead, blockheads, ignorantly, loads, lumber, lumbering, lumbers
«Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| Keywords:
crams, lumber, lumbering, lumbers, lumber room, pedantry, showiest, showy
«One farmer says to me, ''You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;'' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
farmer, food supply, furnishes, lumbering, lumbers, plow, raw material, raw materials, religiously, supplying, vegetable
«Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
aged, Die in, exile, exiled, exiles, lumber, lumbering, lumbers, lumber room, middle-aged, mortgage, mortgaged, mortgages, mortgaging, The Exile, The Lord of, waiting room
«Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room / The Discobolus standeth and turneth his face to the wall; / Dusty, cobweb-covered, maimed and set at naught, / Beauty crieth in an attic and no man regardeth: / O God! O Montreal!»
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