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Examples
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It seems right that Germont should stand rigid, while Violetta flutters like a broken-winged sparrow.
Antonio Meneses and Maria João Pires; La traviata – review 2012
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As Langston Hughes said, “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
On the Right Track Marion Jones 2010
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As Langston Hughes said, “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
On the Right Track Marion Jones 2010
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It stated that “to kill Americans and their allies, both civil and military, is an individual duty of every Muslim who can, in any country where this is possible, until the Aqsa Mosque [in Jerusalem] and the Haram Mosque [in Mecca] are freed from their grip, and until their armies, shattered and broken-winged, depart from all the lands of Islam.”
BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010
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It stated that “to kill Americans and their allies, both civil and military, is an individual duty of every Muslim who can, in any country where this is possible, until the Aqsa Mosque [in Jerusalem] and the Haram Mosque [in Mecca] are freed from their grip, and until their armies, shattered and broken-winged, depart from all the lands of Islam.”
BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010
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It stated that “to kill Americans and their allies, both civil and military, is an individual duty of every Muslim who can, in any country where this is possible, until the Aqsa Mosque [in Jerusalem] and the Haram Mosque [in Mecca] are freed from their grip, and until their armies, shattered and broken-winged, depart from all the lands of Islam.”
BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010
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It stated that “to kill Americans and their allies, both civil and military, is an individual duty of every Muslim who can, in any country where this is possible, until the Aqsa Mosque [in Jerusalem] and the Haram Mosque [in Mecca] are freed from their grip, and until their armies, shattered and broken-winged, depart from all the lands of Islam.”
BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010
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As Langston Hughes said, “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
On the Right Track Marion Jones 2010
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When I was young, some 40 years ago, I had to memorize a poem for school which began, "Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams die/Life is a broken-winged bird which cannot fly."
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If any discontent seize upon a patient, in an instant all other perturbations (for — qua data porta ruunt) will set upon him, and then like a lame dog or broken-winged goose he droops and pines away, and is brought at last to that ill habit or malady of melancholy itself.
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