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“Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.”

Ifs Names Black White Bears Fame Mouths Wings Deeds Contrary Flight Blast

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton

“He that has no present Christ has a future, dark, chaotic, heaving with its destructive ocean; and over it there goes forever--black-pinioned winging its solitary and hopeless flight, the raven of his anxious thoughts, and finds no place to rest, and comes back again to the desolate ark with its foreboding croak of evil in the present and evil in the future.”

Evil Black Christ Dark Forever Ocean Flight Destructive Over It Hopeless Anxious Solitary Chaotic Back Again Ravens Desolate Ark Foreboding Anxious Thoughts

Book:Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester

Source: Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester

“In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February.”

Years School Literature Black White Focus Teacher Rounds Flight African American Integration Curriculum February Atlanta American Literature

Author:Natasha Trethewey

“whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a plane touches down, with a puff of smoke from scorched tyre rubber, or rises in the air, leaving a smear of black fumes dissolving in its wake. From space, the earth might look to a fanciful eye like a huge carousel, with planes instead of horses spinning round its circumference, up and down, up and down. Whhheeeeeeeeeee!”

Source: Small world: an academic romance

“Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.”

Soul Black Shame Suicide Wings Flight Britain Fear Of Death Gloomy Infamous Sullen Fears Of Life Impetuous

Book:Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job

Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job