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«All that stirring of old instincts which at stated periods drives men out from the sounding cities to forest and plain to kill things by chemically propelled leaden pellets, the blood lust, the joy to kill--all this was Buck's, only it was infinitely more intimate. He was ranging at the head of the pack, running the wild thing down, the living meat, to kill with his own teeth and wash his muzzle to the eyes in warm blood.»
Author: Jack London (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: buck, bucks, buck up, chemically, drives, eye tooth, heads of state, head of state, instincts, intimate, leaden, lust, muzzle, muzzled, pack, periods, propel, propelled, propelling, propels, ranging, sounding, stated, stirring, The Pack, The Wild, This Was, warm-blooded, wash
«It was a very tall man, if, indeed, it might be called a man, for the gaunt bones were protruding through the corroding flesh, and the features were of a leaden hue. A winding-sheet was wrapped round the figure, and formed a hood over the head, from under the shadow of which two fiendish eyes, deep set in their grisly sockets, blazed and sparkled like red-hot coals.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. | Keywords: blazed, corrodes, corroding, deep-set, features, fiendish, gaunt, grisly, hood, leaden, protruding, red hot, sockets, sparkled, winding-sheet, wrapped
«Where but to think is to be full of sorrow and leaden eyed despairs»
Author: John Keats (Poet) | Keywords: be full, despairs, eyed, leaden
«To the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: Burns, dull, dulled, duller, dullest, dulling, dulls, illumine, illumined, illumines, leaden, sparkle, sparkled, sparkles
«The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon (President) | About: Memory | Keywords: carpet, first lady, leaden, red carpet
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