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• I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find their mother sewing and pick up some scrap of bright wool, a feather, or a shred of chintz. I need a howl; a cry. When the storm crosses the marsh and sweeps over me where I lie in the ditch unregarded I need no words. Nothing neat. Nothing that comes down with all its feet on the floor. None of those resonances and lovely echoes that break and chime from nerve to nerve in our breasts making wild music, false phrases. I have done with phrases.

  Virginia Woolf

  Madre, Hijos, Mentir

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1452, Delphi Classics

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• Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you.

  Robert W. Servicio

  Years, Old Year, Progress

  ROBERT W. SERVICE (1917). “rhymes of rolling stone”

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• Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied, "there is a meaning; at least, for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."

  Cyril Connolly

  Two, People, Mind

  Cyril Connolly (1953). “Ideas and Places”, London, Weidenfeld

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• Dear Night! this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb! Christ's progress, and His prayer-time; The hours to which high Heaven cloth chime.

  Henry Vaughan

  Prayer, Night, Heaven

  'The Night' l. 25 from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time.

  Andrew Marvell

  Fall, Way, Rowing

  Andrew Marvell, Nigel Smith (2007). “The Poems of Andrew Marvell”, p.58, Pearson Education

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• Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off the lighthouse island floats in on the still air the gentle trolling of a warning bell as it swings on the rocking buoy; it might be tolling for the passing of summer and sweet weather with that persistent, pensive chime.

  Celia Thaxter

  Summer, Sweet, Laughter

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• At the center, where a cuckoo bird would live in a more traditional timepiece, is the juggler. Dressed in harlequin style with a grey mask, he juggles shiny silver balls that correspond to each hour. As the clock chimes, another ball joins the rest until at midnight he juggles twelve balls in a complex pattern.
  After midnight the clock begins once more to fold in upon itself. The face lightens and the clouds return. The number of juggled balls decreases until the juggler himself vanishes.
  By noon it is a clock again, and no longer a dream.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dream, Numbers, Clouds

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• His eyes met mine at the soft touch, and a chime seemed to shake the ley line, realigning the universe. He was mine.

  Kim Harrison

  Eye, Lines, Mets

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• Asia es el continente que olvidó el ritmo. En el mejor de los casos, la música asiática es pop estadounidense sin marca, como Sonny Bono en un karaoke. En el peor, la música asiática suena como si un camión lleno de campanas de viento chocara
  con una pila de bidones de aceite vacíos durante un concurso de canto de pájaros.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Viento, petróleo, sonido

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). "Todos los problemas del mundo: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty", p.338, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• E have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for the glory of God and the good of souls. The slave auctioneer's bell and the church-going bell chime in with each other, and the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master. Revivals of religion and revivals in the slave trade go hand in hand.

  Frederick Douglass

  Religioso, Corazón, Hombres

  Frederick Douglass (2017). “FREDERICK DOUGLASS’ NARRATIVE – Memoirs of an American Slave, Freedom Fighter & Statesman: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & My Bondage and My Freedom”, p.98, e-artnow

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• Association is the delight of the heart, not less than of poetry. Alison observes that an autumn sunset, with its crimson clouds, glimmering trunks of trees, and wavering tints upon the grass, seems scarcely capable of embellishment. But if in this calm and beautiful glow the chime of a distant bell steal over the fields, the bosom heaves with the sensation that Dante so tenderly describes.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Beautiful, Heart, Sunset

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.11

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• The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Christmas, Sweet, Heart

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• Y todo el mundo tiene forma de fútbol
  Es sólo para mí para patear en el espacio
  Y puedo ver, oír, oler, tocar, saborear
  Y tengo uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco
  Sentidos trabajando horas extras
  Tratando de asimilar todo esto
  Tengo uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco
  Sentidos trabajando horas extras
  Tratando de saborear la diferencia entre un limón y una lima
  Dolor y placer y las campanas de la iglesia repican suavemente.

  Andy Partridge

  Football, Pain, Church Bells

  "Senses Working Overtime". Song by Andy Partridge, 1982.

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• And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Night, Silence, Sound

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.290, Open Road Media

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• Los domingos, a la hora de las mañanas, los campesinos alpinos, de dos en dos, suben aquí a rezar; los burgueses y las damas, en la flor del verano, cabalgan a la iglesia desde Chamberry, con alegres mantos, pero por lo demás es un momento solitario alrededor de la iglesia de Brou.

  Matthew Arnold

  Verano, Solitario, Gay

  Matthew Arnold (2013). "Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)", p.229, Delphi Classics.

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• Ah! si l'on o"  tait les chime'  res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Men, Would Be, Fantasy

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• He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.

  Ian McDonald

  Believe, Theatre, Treasure

  Ian McDonald (2010). “The Dervish House”, p.160, Hachette UK

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• It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

  A. N. Wilson

  Sadness, People, Joy

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• I loathe the expression “What makes him tick.” It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

  James Thurber

  Fall, Simple, Expression

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• In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Night, Fire, December

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.145

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• The demographic of our audience is young. It also contains a high proportion of black, Jewish and gay people, who have all been encouraged by society to think of themselves as oddities or mutants. I hope that's why X-Men chimes with them - it's certainly why I was attracted to the idea in the first place.

  Ian Mckellen

  Gay, Hombres, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a chime of gold, And his eyes are lit with laughter. He is jubilant as a flag unfurled - Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him. My own dear love, he is all my world - And I wish I'd never met him.

  Dorothy Parker

  Girl, Sweet, Strong

  Dorothy Parker (1936). "No tan profundo como un pozo", Macmillan Company of Canada.

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• Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat our ear. This doth put us still in mind That our flesh must be resigned, And, a general silence made, The world be muffled in a shade.

  James Shirley

  Silence, Mind, Shade

  James Shirley, William Gifford, Alexander Dyce (1833). “The Dramatic Works and Poems: Now First Colledted : in 6 Volumes. Honoria and mammon [u.a.]”, p.452

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• Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.

  Sara Sheridan

  Kids, Aunt, Opportunity

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• One day [when I relapsed] I walked into a store and saw a little bottle of Jack Daniel's. And then that voice - I call it the 'lower power' - goes, 'Hey. Just a taste. Just one.' I drank it, and there was that brief moment of 'Oh, I'm okay!' But it escalated so quickly. Within a week I was buying so many bottles I sounded like a wind chime walking down the street.

  Robin Williams

  Suicide, Wind, Voice

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