Thesaurus / ivory tower
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The vein holds from beginning to end of his work; from this writing of the eighties to "The Ivory Tower."
INSTIGATIONSEZRA POUND"The Ivory Tower," full of accumulated perceptions, swift illuminating phrases, perhaps part of a masterpiece.
INSTIGATIONSEZRA POUNDHe sought a refuge from his sufferings in his own ivory tower; these sufferings themselves were to him a source of observations.
LIFE OF ELIE METCHNIKOFF, 1845-1916OLGA METCHNIKOFFOur only refuge was the ivory tower of the poets whither we climbed higher and higher to escape the crowd.
SYLVIE: SOUVENIRS DU VALOISGRARD DE NERVALAll life has streamed into your soul, and you have lived in the ivory tower.
THE GOOSE MANJACOB WASSERMANNThe latch was always lifted on the front door of his ivory tower.
UNICORNSJAMES HUNEKERAnd so this, he reflected, this was how Jenny employed the leisure hours in her ivory tower apart.
CROME YELLOWALDOUS HUXLEYHere, he knew, was the ivory tower of galactic medicine, the hub from which the medical care of the confederation arose.
STAR SURGEONALAN NOURSEHe knew now, without any further persuasion, that this had been a vision strictly from an ivory tower.
THE COLONISTSRAYMOND F. JONESAdieu; work well, see only friends, mount to the ivory tower, and let come what may.
BOUVARD AND PCUCHET, PART 2GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWORDS RELATED TO IVORY TOWER
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