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I shut my eyes yet felt aware of the garden at my elbow, the blooms opening as if in time-lapse, the stalks lengthening.
It is never held but chased under the lengthening shadows of habit and fear.
He Left Nirvana Because He Had Cooler Things to Do. Like Going to Iraq. | Jacob Siegel | April 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIf they all switch to eating red meat, then ten years later, red meat will look like some life-lengthening elixir.
Fossil corals are silent witnesses to the lengthening of days.
How Long Is a Year? Is the Earth Slowing Down? And Other Questions About Time | Neil Shubin | January 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the new book, Vaillant returns bearing another three decades of data as well as his own lengthening perspective.
What Harvard’s Grant Study Reveals about Happiness and Life | Dan Slater | November 7, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut the shadows are lengthening, the days come and go, and still my name has not appeared on the court calendar.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander BerkmanIn the leaping kangaroo and jerboa a shortening of the arms and lengthening of the legs appear.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles MorrisThe Factor stood at the open door, watching the slowly gathering shadows lengthening upon the trees.
Menotah | Ernest G. HenhamMore than once Coronado sickened of his seemingly hopeless and ever lengthening pilgrimage of sin.
Overland | John William De Forest"We never knowed it war you," whined the other carefully lengthening the distance between the big man on the doorstep and himself.
The Shepherd of the Hills | Harold Bell Wright
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