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Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.
We had been walking quite briskly, for despite your being so small and me so tall, your stride in those days could easily match mine.
A story, no doubt apocryphal, for Mercer himself denies it, has him sporting a monacle in those Village days.
It was a somewhat unusual thing for a reporter to have a contract in those days before the epidemic of syndicated columnists.
I was anxious to hear about those dazzling days on the Great White Way.
After a nuclear blast, one bureaucrat suggested in those halcyon days, about all you had to do was haul out the broom and sweep off your sidewalks and roof.
It was one with the desolate rocks and the alien water on those days when she hated the sea.
He and Mark were the last of the family, and there lay the Cape Ann property which had seemed to have no end, stretching from horizon to horizon, in those golden days of summer.
Ten days after the questionnaires were mailed, follow-up airmail postcards were sent urging those companies which had not yet returned their questionnaires to do so at once.
In those days, a wife had mighty few rights in the domestic sphere and even fewer in the sexual sphere.
Walton, who soon made a break from journalism to become one of the capital's leading semi-abstract painters, vows that he and Kennedy never once discussed art in those days.
Since the days when their two thousand pairs of skis outnumbered those assembled anywhere else in the United States, the students have stopped regarding the Olympic Ski Team as another name for their own.
If this woman had delayed until after 11:20 to start her shopping, she would have had little time in which to prepare the substantial meal that was eaten at dinner in those days.
Baseball was surely the national game in those days, even though professional baseball may have been merely a business.
A patient could receive up to 300 days paid-for nursing home care under a `` unit formula '' allowing more of such care for those who use none or only part of the hospital-care credit.
The modest and happy Spahn waved off his new laurels as one of those good days.
But there was terror in the thirties when the Nazis were on the loose and in those days Low struck like lightning.
It was just going to be one of those days.
She seemed to work to grow close to her son in the few days he spent at home, talking to him about some of the more pleasant moments of his childhood and then trying to talk to him about those things in which he alone was interested.
After all, his wife had written most of his letters for him in those first lean days of Partlow Products.
But it was fun those first days, kidding about the trail of garments he left littered across the rug.
A few days after the sermon, Paneloux is taken ill. His symptoms do not conform to those of the plague, but the disease still proves fatal.
Ah, those were the days Moosier.

those and poems
An idea, of the sort that we have in mind, although of necessity readily available to imagination, is more general in connotation than most poetic or literary images, especially those appearing in lyric poems that seek to capture a moment of personal experience.
The poems which were addressed to her, while they are far more restrained than those of `` Love In Dian's Lap '', show no great technical advance over those of the `` Narrow Vessel '' group and are, if anything, somewhat more labored.
An example of ancient aesthetics in Greece through poetry is Plato's quote: " For the authors of those great poems which we admire, do not attain to excellence through the rules of any art ; but they utter their beautiful melodies of verse in a state of inspiration, and, as it were, possessed by a spirit not their own.
* Literary traditions of subsequent civilizations ; Especially the Hellenic ; such as, for example, those embodied in the Homeric poems, the legends concerning Crete, Mycenae, etc.
These later poems, mostly written before 1910, show a greater variety of subject and form than those in A Shropshire Lad but lack the consistency of his previously published work.
Perhaps equally unsurprising as the attitude of post-Domitianic historians, the poems of Martial and Statius are highly adulatory, praising Domitian's achievements as equalling those of the gods.
It refers primarily to the erudite, shorter hexameter poems of the Hellenistic period and the similar works composed at Rome from the age of the neoterics ; to a lesser degree, the term includes some poems of the English Renaissance, particularly those influenced by Ovid.
Some of those who argue that the Homeric poems developed gradually over a long period of time give an even later date for the composition of the poems ; according to Gregory Nagy for example, they only became fixed texts in the 6th century BC.
Henri also created many graphic works on his typewriter: the typewriter poems ( also known as dactylopoèmes ) feature in international art collections such as those of Francesco Conz in Verona, the Morra Foundation in Naples and Ruth and Marvin Sackner in Miami, and have been the subject of Australian, British and French retrospectives ( Aquaviva 2008 ).
Moreover, the customary criticism of Coleridge as a cerebral poet would seem to be borne out by those poems such as This Lime-tree Bower my Prison or The Pains of Sleep, which tend more towards a direct statement than an imaginative presentation of personal dilemma.
Indeed, Oum Koulthoum, a legend of Arabic music, has sung one of those poems and made her song " robaaiyet el khayam " become one of her most beautiful songs.
His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889 and those slow-paced and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Pre-Raphaelite poets.
Emerson urged Thoreau to contribute essays and poems to a quarterly periodical, The Dial, and Emerson lobbied editor Margaret Fuller to publish those writings.
Although he wrote war poems, he avoided the graphic edge that characterises the work of Sassoon or Wilfred Owen, and his memoirs of war service, though beautifully written, lack the immediacy of those of Sassoon or Robert Graves.
" Literature " is a highly ambiguous term: at its broadest, it can mean any sequence of words that has been preserved for transmission in some form or other ( including oral transmission ); more narrowly, it is often used to designate imaginative works such as stories, poems, and plays ; more narrowly still, it is used as an honorific and applied only to those works which are considered to have particular merit.
In his platonic dialogs there are definitions about the meter of the poems and tragedy, the form and the structure of those texts ( see the Republic and Phaidros, Ion etc.
and vii., as numbered by Kenyon in the editio princeps ) must be parts of a single ode ( for Lachon of Ceos ) – hence even today the poems can be found numbered differently, with Jebb for example one of those following Blass's lead and numbering the poems differently to Kenyon from poem 8 onwards ( Kenyon 9
Kilmer would later write that "... some of the poems in it, those inspired by genuine love, are not things of which to be ashamed, and you, understanding, would not be offended by the others.
His friend Viktor Hartmann had died, and his relative and recent roommate Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov ( who furnished the poems for the song-cycle Sunless and would go on to provide those for the Songs and Dances of Death ) had moved away to get married.

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