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Often he bid me come and have a look
Up the brass barrel, velvet black inside,
At a star quaking in the other end.
Robert Frost
stars | telescopes
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quaking muscles in the act of birth,
Between her legs a pigmy face appear,
And the first murderer lay upon the earth.
Alec Derwent Hope
Cain | Adam and Eve | birth
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As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's ...
Florence King
education | elitism | college education
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Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready t ...
Herman Melville
courage | soldiers | battles
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Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swam ...
Henry David Thoreau
wildness | civilization
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