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shuddering
«I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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Newspapers
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disgust, shudder, shuddered, shuddering, shudders
«His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet, His finger on all flowing waters sweet Forbidding lay - motion nor sound was there - Nature lay frozen dead - and still and slow, A winding sheet fell o'e»
Author: Frances Anne Kemble
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arrows, crouch, crouched, flowing, forbidding, frozen, pierced, sheet, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, slow motion, winding-sheet, winding
«Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.»
Author: James A. Michener
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Country
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china, Germany, revere, Russia, shuddering, shudders
«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)
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blast, chimney, chimneys, flail, flailing, gale, gales, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, smites, smiting, smitten, south wind, strengthens, The Clouds, the South
«Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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Music
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beaten, Beethoven, classic, dwell on, ethereal, grandeur, Mozart, Olympus, peaks, purity, represents, romantic, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, Sinai, storms, The Romantic
«I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
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astonished, martyred, martyrs, My Religion, shudder, shuddered, shuddering, shudders
«Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?»
Author: Nadine Gordimer
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Art
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dictum, heretical, on the side, oppressed, oppressors, shudder, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, simplistic
«Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder-and turn quickly to my typewriter.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
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bankbook, shudder, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, stare, take out, typewriter
«He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident efforts on teaching their fledglings to fly - yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think ... Men would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then pushing him out of the nest to struggle for survival - yet that was what they did to their children.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
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convincing, destroying, devotes, feathers, flying start, futile, hunt, Hunt for, plucking, pushing, shudder, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, species, strident, survival, The Birds, the hunt, The Wings, tool, To Fly, train, train of thought, young bird
