On account of keeping in touch with it every day and as a result of influence by the surroundings ,people describe the color of it very natural .So it it often said , “silvery white”, “ashen” ,and sometimes “milky white”, however ,it is not so general as the former. Western ...
Soon after Shakespeare wrote this, the term “wild goose chase” took on a very different meaning. It was a term used in horse racing to describe horses that ran at an equal distance from each other, just like geese flying in a flock. The horse racing meaning of the term eventually fell...
We were read “Whoever has two cloaks should share with the person who has none. And whoever has food should do likewise” from the Gospel of Luke and my hope is that hubby wasn’t the only one listening and learning that doing good is good for you. Good luck! Leave a CommentAdvent,...
“I do love nothing in the world so well as Twitter: is not that strange?” “I follow him to serve my tweet upon him.” “I have done a thousand dreadful tweets… and nothing grieves me heartily indeed but that I cannot tweet ten thousand more.” “I have loved Twitter too fondly ...
These rhymes have been used to describe various themes such as love, beauty, and nature. For example, William Shakespeare in his famous sonnet 116 wrote “Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds, / Or bends with the remover to remove: / O no! it is an ever-fixed mar...
The Rubarbe commeth from thence ouer land, by the waye of Percia, because that euery yeare there goeth a great Carauan from Percia to China, which is in going thether six moneths. — Cesare Federici,The Voyage and Trauaile of M. Caesar Frederick(trans. by T.H.), 1588 ...
In an attempt to describe her son’s sound when he slept, Julie made theanalogythat he sounded like a combination of a faulty air conditioning unit and a car muffler on its last leg. 5. Anaphora I Have a Dream, the famous speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, uses the literary device of...
It's best used to describe a knickknack or a small good deed. bailiwick In one's area of interest or authority; the word derives from the area in which a bailiff, a minor court officer, presides. When the V.P. of Sales starts walking around the factory, complain that she's ...
He claimed that a work of art exists only through the emotion it gives us. He asserted the need to get away from the unquestioning acceptance of commonplace ideas and associations of ideas, and believed it was necessary for thought to proceed by imagery rather than by ideas. Julius Caesar (...
According to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the term “nationalism” is generally used to describe two phenomena: the attitude that the members of a nation have when they care about their national identity, and the actions that the members of a nation take when seeking to achieve (or sust...