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«And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here»
Author: Philip Freneau | Keywords: bow, Delusions, knee, painted, pointed, spear, speared, timorous
«Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.»
Author: William Congreve | Keywords: chaplain, fawn, fawning, fawns, flatterer, named, old woman, parson, Parsons, pimp, pimped, pimping, pimps, quack, quacks, servile, stallion, stallions, timorous
«CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: addicted, adj, assign, assigning, assigns, carnivorous, devouring, heirs, timorous, vegetarian
«Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicio»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: commend, hesitate, leer, reserved, sneering, timorous
«The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken (Critic, Journalist) | About: America and Americans | Keywords: American flag, American people, Christendom, constitute, flag, gathered, goose, ignominious, middle ages, mob, serf, serfs, snivel, sniveling, stepper, steppers, timorous
«The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.»
Author: Robertson Davies (Author, Journalist) | About: Politicians | Keywords: clause, cracking, disused, exploring, groping, imminent, nasty, shafting, shafts, shin, shinning, shins, subjunctive, subordinates, subordinate clause, timorous
«When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: malignity, timorous, weakest
«When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligen»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Celebrity, Happiness | Keywords: celebrity, indulge, malignity, timorous, withhold
«The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable»
Author: Thomas Fuller (Clergyman, Writer) | Keywords: implacable, revengeful, timorous, weakest
«I am not worthy of the wealth I owe, nor dare I say 'tis mine, and yet it is; but, like a timorous thief, most fain would steal what law does vouch mine own.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: fain, steal, thief, timorous, vouch
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