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«I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.»
«Here, seated on red velvet banquettes at marble-topped tables, one can't help wonder what sights these smoky, gilded mirrors have reflected for more than 250 years.»
«Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their sacrifices.»
«He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.»
«It is to their crimes that most great men are indebted for their gardens, their tables, their fine old plate - their love»
«I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Americanism, apprenticeship, Economy of, mastery, midnight, phrenology, raps, shallow, tables
«He that travels in theory has no inconveniences; he has shade and sunshine at his disposal, and wherever he alights finds tables of plenty and looks of gaiety. These ideas are indulged till the day of departure arrives, the chaise is called, and the progress of happiness begins. A few miles teach him the fallacies of imagination. The road is dusty, the air is sultry, the horses are sluggish. He longs for the time of dinner that he may eat and rest. The inn is crowded, his orders are neglected, and nothing remains but that he devour in haste what the cook has spoiled, and drive on in quest of better entertainment. He finds at night a more commodious house, but the best is always worse than he expected.»
«Players, Sir! I look upon them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint-stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs»
«Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of thee.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
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alarm, boldly, eager, knee, reassured, retreating, tables
«I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something that shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
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fashionable, supersede, superseded, supersedes, tables, young lady
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