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• Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon its branch. A single petal was torn away by the wind. Pushing my hands through the thorns, I felt lashes of pain across my skin, but i kept going determined. But when my fingertip touched the flower, it instantly darkened, withering and drying as each petal turned black.

  Claudia Gray

  Dolor, Flor, Corazón

  Claudia Gray (2010). “Evernight (Evernight, Book 1)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Sympathy, Book, Names

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• It means eating your words, this thing of refusing to be a fence-sitter, but I'd rather eat my words than get calluses from sitting.
  No one who has not experienced the condescension of a buyer toward an ordinary salesgirl can have any conception of its withering effect.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Mean, Ordinary, Sitting

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• We believe that our truly urgent need is to make our nation secure, our economy strong and our dollar sound. For every American this matter of the sound dollar is crucial. Without a sound dollar, every American family would face a renewal of inflation, an ever-increasing cost of living, the withering away of savings and life insurance policies.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Strong, Believe, Cost Of Living

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• I'm never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty. Language can create its own loveliness, of course, but it cannot deliver to us the radiance we apprehend in the world, any more than a photograph can capture the stunning swiftness of a hawk or the withering power of a supernova... All that pictures or words can do is gesture beyond themselves toward the fleeting glory that stirs our hearts. So I keep gesturing.

  Scott Sanders

  Heart, Trying, Fleeting

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• To know that nothing hurts the godly, is a matter of comfort; but to be assured that all things which fall out shall co-operate for their good, that their crosses shall be turned into blessings, that showers of affliction water the withering root of their grace and make it flourish more; this may fill their hearts with joy till they run over.

  Thomas Watson

  Running, Religious, Hurt

  Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good: An Exposition of Romans 8:28”, p.6, Gideon House Books

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• The socially pernicious, racially wasteful, and soul-withering consequences of the working of mothers outside the home must cease. And this can only come to pass, either through the programme of institutional upbringing, or through the intimate renaissance of the home.

  Ellen Key

  Mother, Women, Home

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• the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Reality, Wings, Long

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• Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem in social physics, could subject it at other times to a withering scorn which only the presupposition of moral responsibility could justify.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Responsibility, Bourgeoisie, Behaviour

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2012). “An Interpretation of Christian Ethics”, p.81, Westminster John Knox Press

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• El camino de cada mujer es difícil, y muchas madres estaban tan preparadas para criar hijos como las madres de los monos de alambre. Lo digo sin juzgar: Es, tristemente, cierto. El amor de una madre enfermiza se marchita.

  Anne Lamott

  Madre, Hijos, Amor Es

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• If there is one abiding theme in the gym, it's the withering work in the ring. Those not fit do not survive.

  Emanuel Steward

  Fuerza, Deportes, Fitness

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• Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.

  Homer

  Primavera, Otoño, Hombres

  Homer (1822). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.170

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• However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or being whose power it is. On those occasions when we've seen Lord Foul act directly, he seems to exert the withering force of pure scorn. IMHO, that's pretty intense.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Hate, Book, Expression

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• Herein would I live; herein would I die; hereon would I dwell in my thoughts and affections; to the withering and consumption of all the painted beauties of this world, unto the crucifying all things here below, until they become unto me a dead and deformed thing, no way meet for affectionate embraces.

  John Owen

  World, Way, Affection

  "Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ".

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• Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light. You see a kind of insanity, something so obscene the very obscenity of it (rather than its threat) terrifies you. It was so new I could not take my eyes from the man's face. I felt like saying: "What in God's name are you doing to yourself?

  John Howard Griffin

  Fear, Heart, Eye

  John Howard Griffin (2006). “Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition”, p.49, Wings Press

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• But I wasn't happy... when I heard you two had assaulted Castle Macindaw with just thirty men,' [said Halt]. 'Thirty-three,' mumbled Horace... The Ranger gave him a withering look. 'Oh, pardon me... three more men does make a lot of difference.

  John Flanagan

  Men, Two, Differences

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• ...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust.

  Alberto Moravia

  Flower, Loss, Dust

  Alberto Moravia (2011). “Boredom”, p.5, New York Review of Books

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• So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns
  No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd
  With the dead boughs that winter still must bind,
  And whom today the Spring no more concerns.
  Behold, this crocus is a withering flame;
  This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part
  To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art.
  Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them,
  Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem
  The white cup shrivels round the golden heart.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Art, Spring, Flower

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frank Laurence Lucas (1933). “Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Anthology”, p.169, CUP Archive

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• A picture without sky has no glory. This present, unless we see gleaming beyond it the eternal calm of the heavens, above the tossing tree tops with withering leaves, and the smoky chimneys, is a poor thing for our eyes to gaze at, or our hearts to love, or our hands to toil on.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Life, Heart, Eye

  Alexander MacLaren "MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture", Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• This is myself, baby. All of my selves. I own each and every one of them. I know who I'm pretending to be and who I am." The look he gives me is withering. "Do you?

  Gayle Forman

  Baby, Self, Who I Am

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.130, Penguin

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• I admit," Morgan said with another withering look, "it's no donut.

  Jim Butcher

  Looks, Said, Donuts

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.128, Penguin

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• Vamos en julio marchito
  A trabajar la dura e incesante azada;
  Jadeando bajo el cielo descarado
  Sudamos y refunfuñamos, pero vamos.

  Ruth Pitter

  Verano, julio, cielo

  Ruth Pitter (1969). "Colección de poemas"

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• Entre las tendencias medioambientales que minan nuestro futuro están la disminución de los bosques, la expansión de los desiertos, el descenso de las capas freáticas, el colapso de los caladeros, la desaparición de especies y el aumento de las temperaturas. El aumento de la temperatura trae consigo olas de calor que marchitan las cosechas, tormentas más destructivas, sequías más intensas, más incendios forestales y, por supuesto, el deshielo. Estamos cruzando umbrales naturales que no podemos ver y violando plazos que no reconocemos.

  Lester R. Brown

  Otoño, hielo, fuego

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• O morir la muerte o renunciar para siempre a la sociedad de los hombres. Por lo tanto, bella Hermia, cuestiona tus deseos; conoce tu juventud, examina bien tu sangre, si, en caso de no ceder a la elección de tu padre, puedes soportar la librea de una monja, estar por siempre en un claustro sombreado, vivir como una hermana estéril toda tu vida, cantando débiles himnos a la fría luna infructuosa. Tres veces bienaventurados los que así dominan su sangre, Para someterse a tal peregrinación de doncella; Pero más feliz es la rosa destilada, Que la que marchitándose en la espina virgen Crece, vive y muere en una sola bienaventuranza.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Blessed, Moon

  William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.162

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• Veo a América extendiendo el desastre. Veo a América como una maldición negra sobre el mundo. Veo una larga noche asentándose y ese hongo que ha envenenado al mundo marchitándose de raíz.

  Henry Miller

  Noche, Setas, Raíces

  Henry Miller (2007). "Primavera negra", p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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