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"Adieu," she cries, and waved her lily hand.
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When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany.

jesse owens

— On reports that Hitler had deliberately avoided acknowledging his victories, and had refused to shake his hand, in The Jesse Owens Story (1970) ISBN 0399603158

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As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.

ralph waldo emerson

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Woodnotes, II.

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Narrated Abu Musa: The Prophet said, "I saw in a dream that I waved a sword and it broke in the middle, and behold, that symbolized the casualties the believers suffered on the Day (of the battle) of Uhud. Then I waved the sword again, and it became better than it had ever been before, and behold, that symbolized the Conquest (of Mecca) which Allah brought about and the gathering of the believers. "


— Sahih Bukhari 9:87:164

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"Did the rapid-response teams go in?" Murray asked. "Why don't they just take over?" "They didn't go in at all," Drew said. "They called me first and I waved them off. You think it's a bad situation now, try bringing in eight P90-toting goons wearing biosuits and watch the press jizz all over themselves."


— Scott Sigler, Infected (2008), p. 267.

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Sacred thy laughter on the air,Holy thy lightest word that fell,Proud the innumerable hairThat waved at the enchanter's spell.Oh Master of the Beautiful,Creating us from hour to hour,Give me this vision to the fullTo see in lightest things thy power!This vision give, no heaven afar,No throne, and yet I will rejoice,Knowing beneath my feet a star,Thy word in every wandering voice.

george william russell

— "Creation".

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Paris flared — Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.

Émile zola

— Paris (1898) Last of Les Trois Villes [The Three Cities] trilogy

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“One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. We here are not children, Mr. Gurgeh.” Hamin waved the pipestem round the tables of people. “Rules and laws exist only because we take pleasure in doing what they forbid, but as long as most of the people obey such proscriptions most of the time, they have done their job; blind obedience would imply we are ha!” Hamin chuckled and pointed at the drone with the pipe “no more than robots!”

iain banks

— Chapter 2 (p. 279)

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Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand.

john gay

— Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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On a day of fire and blood, a tattered banner waved above Dumai's wells, bearing the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai. On a day of fire and blood and the one power, as prophecy had suggested, the unstained tower, broken, bent knee to the forgotten sign. The first nine Aes Sedai swore fealty to the Dragon Reborn, and the world was changed forever.

robert jordan

— Narrator

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"You mustn’t forget about your future, Enrique." "I’m living for the present, Dad." "Ah!" he waved that aside. "The present is just temporary." ‘ I boiled up. "I know," I burst out. ‘It only has to be accepted temporarily :;temporarily, but every day afresh. And every day ever more. Temporarily. Until we have lived to the end of our temporary lives, and one fine day we temporarily die.

imre kertész‎

— p. 66 (Detective Story (2008))

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We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them this morning, as they prepared for their journey, and waved good-bye, and "slipped the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God."

ronald reagan

— Speech about the Space Shuttle disaster(28 January 1986)

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Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky.

Holmes, Sr., Oliver Wendell

— A Metrical Essay

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Paris flared Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.


— Émile Zola Paris (1898) Last of Les Trois Villes [The Three Cities] trilogy

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Lo! there he lies, our Patriarch Poet, dead! The solemn angel of eternal peace Has waved a wand of mystery o'er his head, Touched his strong heart, and bade his pulses cease.


— Paul H. Hayne, To Bryant, Dead

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And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.

william collins

— William Collins, The Passions, an Ode for Music (1747), line 3

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