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There was deep water to its sheer foot, so that our sky-aspiring bowsprit crumpled at the impact and snapped short off.
Chapter 15 2010
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Low and rambling, without being squat, the square upthrusts of towers and of towers over-topping towers gave just proportion of height without being sky-aspiring.
CHAPTER II 2010
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Time's greatest gift to blindfold, insatiable, and sky-aspiring man.
THE RED ONE 2010
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And yet, men have so behaved since the world began, feasting, fighting, and carousing, whether in the dark cave-mouth or by the fire of the squatting-place, in the palaces of imperial Rome and the rock strongholds of robber barons, or in the sky-aspiring hotels of modern times and in the boozing-kens of sailor-town.
Chapter III 2010
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The leaders themselves will be regarded as _mere ambitious men_; not taking rank with those whose ambition is "eagle-winged and sky-aspiring," but belonging to that mean and selfish class, who are instigated by
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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It was Time's greatest gift to blindfold, insatiable, and sky-aspiring man.
The Red One 1918
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Time's greatest gift to blindfold, insatiable, and sky-aspiring man.
The Red One 1918
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Low and rambling, without being squat, the square upthrusts of towers and of towers over-topping towers gave just proportion of height without being sky-aspiring.
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There was deep water to its sheer foot, so that our sky-aspiring bowspirit crumpled at the impact and snapped short off.
Chapter 15 1915
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And yet, men have so behaved since the world began, feasting, fighting, and carousing, whether in the dark cave-mouth or by the fire of the squatting-place, in the palaces of imperial Rome and the rock strongholds of robber barons, or in the sky-aspiring hotels of modern times and in the boozing-kens of sailor-town.
Chapter III 1910
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