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«Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure»
Author: Robert Southwell | Keywords: gale, gales, hoist, hoisted, hoisting, sail, tide
«The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The chimney shudders to the blast.»
Author: Robert Bridges (Physician, Poet) | Keywords: blast, chimney, chimneys, flail, flailing, gale, gales, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, smites, smiting, smitten, south wind, strengthens, The Clouds, the South
«The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise.»
Author: Thomas Gray (Poet) | Keywords: gale, gales, meanest, opening, open air, simplest, skies, swells, vale, vales
«On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: card, diversely, gale, gales, ocean, sail, vast
«It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!»
Author: Patrick Henry (Lawyer) | About: America and Americans, Death, Freedom, Liberty, War | Keywords: Almighty, Almighty God, begun, brethren, bring to, chains, clash, clashed, clashes, clashing, extenuate, extenuates, forbid, gale, gales, gentlemen, god of war, in the north, in vain, North, North A, North by, purchased, resound, resounded, resounding, resounds, sweeps, The Clash, The Field, the matter, the North, The War, to the north, war cry
«Far from the sun and summer-gale, / In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid.»
Author: Thomas Gray (Poet) | Keywords: Darling, gale, gales, lap
«Passions are the gales of life.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: gale, gales
«One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox | Keywords: drives, East, gale, gales, Go West, sails, West, west wind
«He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.'»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: embark, embarked, embarking, embarks, embark on, fold, gale, gales, oar, passage, strokes, The Strokes, voyage
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