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«The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king.»
Author: David McCord (Poet, Writer) | Keywords: angles, balconies, balcony, borrower, Borrowers, browser, ceilinged, high-ceilinged, nook, nooks, rooms, sanctuary, scholar, suggest
«I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.»
Author: Gaston Bachelard (Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: abandons, accents, Bad Company, crannies, cranny, dreamer, invert, inverted, meanings, move around, nook, nooks, nooks and crannies, overload, overloaded, prevents, stressed, syllables, wander
«Far from the city's dust and heat,I get but sounds and odors sweet.Who can wonder I love to stay,Week after week, here hidden away,In this sly nook that I love the best --This little brown house like a ground-bird's nest?»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox | Keywords: brown, nook, nooks, odors, on the sly, sly, week after week
«The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet) | Keywords: nook, nooks, sequester, sequestered, serenity, sweet, The Sweet
«Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book»
Author: Robert Southey (Poet, Writer) | Keywords: dedicated, nook, nooks
«I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.»
Author: Robert Browning (Poet) | Keywords: nook, nooks, obscure, privacy
«These sequestered nooks are the public offices of the legal profession, where writs are issued, judgments signed, declarations filed, and numerous other ingenious machines put in motion for the torture and torment of His Majesty's liege subjects, and the comfort and emolument of the practitioners of the law.»
Author: Charles Dickens | Keywords: emolument, filed, His Majesty, ingenious, issued, legal profession, Liege, machines, nook, nooks, offices, practitioner, practitioners, sequester, sequestered, signed
«The advantages of whiskey over dogs are legion. Whiskey does not need to be periodically wormed, it does not need to be fed, it never requires a special kennel, it has no toenails to be clipped or coat to be stripped. Whiskey sits quietly in its special nook until you want it. True, whiskey has a nasty habit of running out, but then so does a dog.»
Author: W. C. Fields (Actor, Comic) | Keywords: advantages, clip, clipped, clipping, coat, kennel, kennels, legion, legions, Legion of, nasty, nook, nooks, quietly, sits, stripped, whiskey, wormed
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