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Familiar Quotations

Baring

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meager.–Anonymous

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.–John Major

How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!–William Shakespeare

Use in Literature

Baring

Then with infinite patience he built a fire with splinters that he cut from dead boughs, hung his blanket in front of it on two sticks that the flame might not be seen, took off his snowshoes, leggins, and socks, and bared his ankles.–Joseph A. Altsheler in The Scouts of the Valley.

The bareness of the scene emphasized our lack of resources.–Marion Polk Angellotti in The Firefly Of France.

He ended, and his temples disarrayed, And to a beech hung up the helmet good, And nigh as quickly bared his trenchant blade.–Ludovico Ariosto in Orlando Furioso.

Scarce was she thrown, before her trenchant blade She bared, and hurried to avenge the stain.–Ludovico Ariosto in Orlando Furioso.

The stranger, after long and earnest prayer, Lifted to covering casque, and bared to view What in the ensuing canto will appear, If you are fain the history to hear.–Ludovico Ariosto in Orlando Furioso.

That other cavalier, who bared his blade, Unknown of all, upon Geneura's side, And thither came from far, his aid to impart, Looked upon all that passed, and stood apart.–Ludovico Ariosto in Orlando Furioso.

His father was in a miserable, uneasy frame of mind. He ceased his work, bared his brow to the delicious morning air.–T.S. Arthur in Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing.

The mistake of military ethics is to exaggerate the conception of discipline, and so to present the moral force of the will in a barer form than it ever ought to take.–Walter Bagehot in Physics and Politics.

• Preface v
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Baring 1
• Use in Literature 2
• Baring 2
• Baring – "Arm" 8
• Baring – "Being" 10
• Baring – "Body" 10
• Baring – "Earth" 10
• Baring – "Eyes" 11
• Baring – "Fangs" 12
• Baring – "Feet" 13
• Baring – "Fighting" 14
• Baring – "Great" 14
• Baring – "Hair" 15
• Baring – "Hand" 15
• Baring – "Head" 16
• Baring – "Heart" 18
• Baring – "Little" 19
• Baring – "Men" 20
• Baring – "Neck" 21
• Baring – "Old" 22
• Baring – "Place" 22
• Baring – "Rooms" 22
• Baring – "Shall" 23
• Baring – "Shoulders" 24
• Baring – "Sir" 24
• Baring – "Soul" 25
• Baring – "Teeth" 25
• Baring – "Trees" 27
• Baring – "Walls" 28
• Baring – "White" 28
• Baring – "Yellow" 29
• Nonfiction Usage 30
• Journalism Usage 30
• Governmental Usage 32
• Patent Usage 32
• Bibliographic Usage 32
• Encyclopedic Usage 55
• Lexicographic Usage 59
• Index 67