The poison with which Claudius kills King Hamlet spreads in a sense throughout the country, until "something is rotten in Denmark", as Marcellus notes (I.4.90). ... Midnight strikes and Barnardo notes, subtly referring to the sentiment of Denmark, that "tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart" (I.1.8). ... He further notes of the world as being "stale and flat", further examples of the pale images Shakespeare conveys. ... He continues to describe how the poison Claudius poured in his ear caused his blood to "curd, like eager droppings into milk" and evoked "thin and loathsome crust all my smoo...

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The horse's body is somewhat in a spooked position with its two back legs grounded and two front legs up in the air. ... Both lovers are gazing into one another's Mesopotamia like eyes. ... She is thin, but not to thin. ... This painting grabbed my attention because the contour lines used to create the outlines of the people and objects are very thin; you can barely see them. ... The scene is of a field where the wheat and bushes just flow right into the sky. ...

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It comprises violins, usually divided into "Firsts" and "Seconds", violas, violincellos, normally called cellos, and double basses. ... The trumpet has enjoyed a long history of sounding the alarm and announcing great occasions, while the old hunting horn evolved into today's French horn. ... Brass players control their instruments by means of valves, and have to master 'embouchure' - the technique of using the mouth muscles to create notes of different pitch. ... The trombone pitches notes by lengthening the air column blowing through the fixed and moving parts of the tube....

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Milkman goes to the office and writes Hagar a good-bye note, which ends with a "thank you" for all she had done for him. The words of thanks "sent Hagar spinning into a bright blue place where the air was thin and it was silent all the time, and where people spoke in whispers or did not make sound at all". ... It was not really that note that drove her crazy, but it was seeing Milkman at Mary's bar with a woman from the Honore crowd. ... She rushes into the bedroom and puts make up on her wet face and her ruined clothes on her body. When Pilate and Reba see her, she sees in their faces th...

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Although factors such as geography, generation, culture and history have produced a wide variety of schools of thought, the aspects in which thinkers immersed themselves into have been relatively similar. ... Man could have burst from ocean, from dry land the bearers of scales, and from thin air the birds; Thus everything cannot spring from anything, for things are unique.(5)" Instead of pointing to some supernatural force as the source of the universe, the Epicurean explains the presence of our universe as the "right atoms in right season" that have "streamed together to build each thing w...

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Starkfield like Ethan has given into the rigors of the many winter. ... The narrator notes, " During the early part of my stay I had been struck, the climate and the deadness of the community" (5). ... The black wraith of a deciduous creeper flapped form the porch, and the thin wooden walls, under their worn coats of paint, seemed to shiver in the wind that had risen with the ceasing snow (11) This depressing image painted in this quotation describes the environment , as well as Ethan. ... The arrival of Mattie is like the warm clean air of a new spring that has brought excitement into Ethan&#...

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This program will build on the technical progress of already existing missile systems, integrate land, air and seas based platforms, and employ more realistic scenarios and countermeasures against enemy missiles. ... September 11th also put fear into the air travel business, both commercial and private jets. ... The U.S did help to set up the new Israeli government and now it is on thin ice. ...

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Charles Rogers apparently had a difficult childhood in which three adverse situations made him develop into an emotionally heartless person. ... This massive section of the text insufficiently explains the mindset of a man who would grow into one of the most intellectually gifted ultra-conservatives of his time. Despite his inability to socialize, his military in cryptography and subsequent volunteering in the Civil Air Patrol gave him the opportunity to develop friendships with shady figures such as David Ferrie and Charles Harrison. ... This long-winded writing wore my patience thin. .....

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The night was freshened by the sea; you could smell the lovely warm air that livened up the party even more. ... The sand was cold, but so thin that it would immediately slip out of your fingers, like the water falling from a waterfall. ... One of the guys kept a note of what the guy looked like and details of the car. ... Cassier got into her car and was driving somewhere. ... Casier walked past the two dogs and got into her car. ...

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Likewise, March can be equated as a hare, hunted, with the "helpless, fascinated rabbit look" (The Fox, p. 170) and Banford resembles various types of birds, a weak and timid sparrow, a prudish hen and perhaps a goose when she is killed, as the way she is struck on the back of the neck and it is described how she "flew into the village on her bicycle" (The Fox, p. 120). ... Basil's absence in The Ladybird provides a conduit for Daphne not only to grow into a woman but also to break free of the constraints of her marriage. ... As Daphne is physically drawn to the sound, her soul is some...

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He does this by penetrating their deepest fears and concerns, using that to "make the net that shall emesh them all" into a jealous web of hatred [II. iii. 356]. ... That fear of remaining in a job for the rest of his life that he felt was for the less experienced, struck and scared him into an overwhelming feeling that he was running out of time. ... This shows he is pulling logical motives out of thin air as to why he should go through with his plot, just to shut up the honest and loyal conscience that does in fact exist inside of him. ...

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