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descending
«Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.»
Author: Amy Lowell
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Hate
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beak, beaks, descending, ravening, skulls, The Vulture, vulture
«Herbs (medicines),while descending down from heaven to earth proclaimed those who eat us, are never destroyed.»
«And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: / And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.»
«And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.»
«On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour: / And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, / And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: / Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.»
«And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.»
Author: Bible
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ascending, behold, descending, dreamed, ladder, reached, set up, The Angels, up on
«NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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acceptable, accessible, competitor, descending, honors, Jacob, ladder, notoriety, renown, vaudeville
«He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk / Descending from the bus: / He looked again, and found it was / A Hippopotamus. / `If this should stay to dine,' he said, / `There won't be much for us!'»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
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banker, bus, clerk, clerking, descending, dine, hippopotamus, The Bus
«The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Aurora, beast, boys, descending, engines, feather, houses, inflicting, insane, mob, outrage, outraged, outrages, persecutes, prank, pranks, put into action, put out, resembles, ruddier, ruddy, streaming, tar-and-feather, tar, The Beast, the mob, voluntarily, whip
«Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
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Begin, clouded, clouding, clouds, Clouds The, cloud over, descending, foundation, humility, lay, Pierce, pierces, piercing, plan, rise, The Clouds, The Foundation, tower, Towered