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The City
«Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.»
Author: Edward Hoagland
| Keywords:
ascribe, cleverness, distrust, In the City, leery, manifestations, righteousness, The City
«But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime:'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
began, chime, chimed, chimes, city, clocks, deceive, In the City, The City, The Clocks, whirr
«And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone; / And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea.»
«At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.»
«And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.»
«And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
apparel, appareled, crown, Crown Royal, garment, Great White, Mordecai, purple, rejoiced, royal, royal blue, Royal City, Shushan, The City, the king
«And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, / And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.»
«[San Francisco] . . . the city that never was a town.»
Author: Will Rogers
| Keywords:
city, Francisco, San, San Francisco, The City, The San, town, Town of
