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«RUM, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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abstainer, abstainers, fiery, generically, liquors, madness, produce, rum, total
«I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.»
«Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.»
«Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire.»
«Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.»
«Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; / And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; / Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.»
«LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative sense to denote the poetic faculty, as in the following fiery lines of our great poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox:I sit astride Parnassus with my lyre, And pick with care the disobedient wire. That stupid shepherd lolling on his crook With deaf attention scarcely deigns to look. I bide my time, and it shall come at length, When, with a Titan's energy and strength, I'll grab a fistful of the strings, and O, The word shall suffer when I let them go! --Farquharson Harris»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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bide, biding, deign, deigns, denote, denotes, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, faculty, fiery, figurative, fistful, grab, Harris, instrument of torture, lyre, Parnassus, poetic, strings, Titan, wheeler, wire
«O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, / Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.»
«It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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Persecution
| Keywords:
censure, eminent, fiery, illustrious, persecution
«Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man, had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
alert, asserting, disposition, fiery, invasion, liable, Pride and, prompt, prompter, resolute
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