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«We signal the captain, taking time out against the wall. He frowns. He groans. His feet hurt. His ulcer rages. He hates his wife. The risotto will take 25 minutes. Lasagna will take even longer.»
«Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whaling captain's-that, in essence, is the modern writer's message.»
Author: Melvin Maddocks
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
callings, captain, demanding, harrow, harrowed, harrowing, harrows, in essence, message, The Harrow, warrior, whales, whaling
«Then out spake brave Horatius, / The Captain of the Gate: / `To every man upon this earth / Death cometh soon or late. / And how can man die better / Than facing fearful odds, / For the ashes of his fathers, / And the temples of his Gods?'»
«With the peddler-man I should like to roam,And write a book when I came home;All the people would read my book,Just like the Travels of Captain Cook!»
Author: William Brighty Rands
| Keywords:
captain, Captain Cook, cook, peddler, roam, roamed, roaming, travels
«The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
captain, Evening Prayer, posting, sentinel, sentinels
«To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
captain, delight, merit, soldier, statesman, The Soldier, The Statesman, war crime
«Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance? / When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son? / Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine: / And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands.»
«The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, / The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
artificer, artificers, captain, eloquent, honourable, orator, The Honourable
«The courageous captain of complements.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
captain, complemented, complements, courageous
«Our great captain's captain.»
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