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«There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.»
«The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.»
Author: Austin O'Malley | About: Politicians | Keywords: shears, shorn, skins, The Statesman
«Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.»
«The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.»
«Taxation: how the sheep are shorn»
Author: Edward Abbey (Writer) | About: Taxation | Keywords: shear, sheared, shearing, shears, shorn, taxation
«Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Flock of sheep, shorn, washing
«To a close-shorn sheep God gives wind by measure»