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«Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, / A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou / Beside me singing in the Wilderness- / And Wilderness is Paradise enow.»
«A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou»
Author: Edward Fitzgerald | About: Poetry | Keywords: bough, jug, jugs, loaf of bread, Verses
«Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, / And burn?d is Apollo's laurel-bough, / That sometime grew within this learn?d man.»
«And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: bough, cut down
«And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Abimelech, bough, Shechem, The Tower
«In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: bough, forsaken, uppermost
«Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: bough, haughty, hewn, High Ones, humbled, lop, lopping, lops
«If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.»
Author: Chinese Proverbs | Keywords: bird, bough, green, singing
«If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come»
«I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.»

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