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Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

Robert Browning

— 1864  Dramatis Personae,'A Death in the Desert'.

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Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

Robert Browning

— Line 59. (A Death in the Desert (1864))

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"I worked for men," my Lord will say, When we meet at the end of the King's highway; "I walked with the beggar along the road, I kissed the bondsman Stung by the goad, I bore my half of the porter's load. And what did you do," my Lord will say, "As you traveled along the King's highway?"


— Robert Davies, My Lord and I.

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FATE slew him, but he did not drop; She felled he did not fall Impaled him on her fiercest stakes He neutralized them all. She Stung him, sapped his firm advance, But, when her worst was done, And he, unmoved, regarded her, Acknowledged him a man.


— p. 60-61. Life.

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The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and Stung with injury stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason.

robert h. jackson

— Opening Address to the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials (November 10, 1945).

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Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compared to that was next her chin, (Some bee had Stung it newly).

Sir John Suckling

— Suckling — A Ballad Upon a Wedding. St. 1 1 .

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The Wreath's of brightest myrtle wove With brilliant tears of bliss among it, And many a rose leaf cull'd by Love To heal his lips when bees have Stung it.

thomas moore

— Thomas Moore, The Wreath and the Chain.

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