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  • Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come; love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom.

    2003-06-25 : CXVI calimae 2003

  • With a gentle exhalation the Commander turned back to the sickle's control panel.

    A Call to Arms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991

  • You lay your sickle's edge -- and that is your time for harvesting.

    In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • Within the sickle's compass so they stood: the woman God gave this man to found a home; the son who inherited his father's gentleness and purity of purpose; the fair flower of the generations that father's sacrifice had helped him win; the bud of promise on the topmost bough.

    The Desert and the Sown Mary Hallock Foote 1892

  • “Love's not Time's fool: though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come, Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out e'en to the edge of doom.”

    Life and Remains of John Clare Cherry, J L 1872

  • Hammer and sickle's revival in land of the rising sun

    Radio New Zealand News Headlines 2009

  • Hammer and sickle's revival in land of the rising sun

    Radio New Zealand News Headlines 2009

  • Seed sown by spears but seldom springs; and harvests reaped thereby, are poisoned by the sickle's edge. "

    Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

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