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• It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message of hope and cheer, whispering of chip shots holed and brassies landing squarely on the meat. The fairway, as yet unscarred by the irons of a hundred dubs, smiled greenly up at the azure sky.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Morning, Cheer, Golf

  P. G. Wodehouse, D. R. Bensen (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best.

  John Burroughs

  Hue, Coats, Vests

  John Burroughs (1909). “Bird Stories from Burroughs: Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs”

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• The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass carpet, the magnanimity of souls, the loftiness of minds, the depth of love - all these things remind us of a God who is beautiful and noble.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Beautiful, Sky, Rose

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• Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.

  George R. R. Martin

  Gold, Fantasy Books, Tofu

  George R.R. Martin (2008). “Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective”, p.215, Hachette UK

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• There were so many miracles at work: that a blossom might become a peach, that a bee could make honey in its thorax, that rain might someday fall. I thought then about the seasons changing, and in the gray of night I could almost will myself to see the azure sky, the gold of the maple leaves, the crimson of the ripe apples, the hoarfrost on the grass.

  Jane Hamilton

  Rain, Fall, Night

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• All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Distance, Eye, Interesting

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wall, Lying, Ocean

  'Lines written amongst the Euganean Hills' (1818) l. 90

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• Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun, And kindles into fragrance at his blaze.

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Golden, Violet, Sun

  Ebenezer Elliott (1834). “Elliott's Poems: The village patriarch, Love, and other poems”, p.284

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• Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth, purity, kindness. It humbles the proud, exalts the lowly, upholds law, favors liberty, is essential to it, and would unite men in one great brotherhood. It is the breath of life to social and civil well-being here, and spreads the azure of that heaven into whose unfathomed depths the eye if faith loves to look.

  Mark Hopkins

  Honesty, Kindness, Eye

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• Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.

  Herman Melville

  War, Sharks, Sea

  Herman Melville (2015). “Annotated Moby Dick or, the Whale with English Grammar Exercises: by Herman Melville (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.438, Powell Publications, LLC

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• To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest, intensest blue that I can contrive, and by this simple combination of the bright head against the rich blue background, I get a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of an azure sky.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Stars, Simple, Pale Yellow

  Vincent van Gogh (1929). “Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889”

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• When you take a look at the transition from server software to Azure, what's going on in terms of cloud infrastructure, the company is absolutely the No. 1 company serving enterprise backbone needs, which is fantastic. It's making the migration to cloud. We started a good thing with Azure, and the company has made well more than two years of progress in terms of being able to compete with the right cost profile, margin structure, and innovation versus Amazon.

  Steve Ballmer

  Years, Two, Clouds

  "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky. Whate'er its mission, the soft breeze can come To none more grateful than to me; escaped From the vast city, where I long had pined A discontented sojourner: now free, Free as a bird to settle where I will.

  William Wordsworth

  Grateful, Blessing, Cities

  1799-1805 The Prelude, bk.1, l.1-9 (published 1850).

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• O lovely eyes of azure, Clear as the waters of a brook that run Limpid and laughing in the summer sun!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Summer, Running, Eye

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875). “The Masque of Pandora: And Other Poems”, p.6

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• As might be expected of creatures so heavenly in color, the disposition of bluebirds is particularly angelic. Gentleness and amiability are expressed in their soft musical voice. Tru-al-ly, tru-al-ly, they sweetly assert when we can scarcely believe that spring is here; tru-wee, tur-wee they softly call in autumn when they go roaming through the countryside in flocks of azure.

  Neltje Blanchan

  Spring, Believe, Autumn

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• How rarely boyhood loves to paint in glowing tints his future bright, a picture where no line is faint--whose very clouds are touch'd with light. And girlhood hails a world unknown and reads it in her own glad dreams, as lilies see themselves alone reflected in their azure streams. But rosy clouds that morning brings, ere noon may deepen into thunder--and life's dark stream has sterner things than silver lilies growing under.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Dream, Morning, Dark

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• The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, That I in nosegays bound.

  Heinrich Heine

  Spring, Eye, Violet

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.184

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• The boy may wrestle, when Night--working Fancy steals him to the arms Of nymph oft wish'd awake, and, 'mid the rage Of the soft tumult, ev'ry turgid cell Spontaneous disembogues its lucid store, Bland and of azure tinct.

  John Armstrong

  Boys, Night, Nymphs

  John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”

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• I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary bark, amidst a sea of bright azure. The subject is certainly hackneyed; the moon has been sung by poet and poetaster. Is there any marvel that it should be so?

  William Gilmore Simms

  Moon, Sea, Sailing

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• Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies, at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews the mire, and you blame the mirror! Rather blame that high road upon which the puddle lies, still more the inspector of roads who allows the water to gather and the puddle to form.

  Stendhal

  Lying, Men, Feet

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.367, Tyché

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• February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams be free, And waked to music all their fountains, And breathed upon the frozen mountains.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sea, Heaven, Mountain

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.612

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• Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Blue, Feelings, Littles

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more”, p.498, e-artnow

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• The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many a beetle with loud applause Admires her dress of azure gauze, Admires her body's bright splendour, And also her figure so slender...

  Heinrich Heine

  Dancing, Dresses, Dragonflies

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.520

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• Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure..... Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle , and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?

  Herman Melville

  Sea, Land, Water

  Herman Melville (2012). “Moby Dick (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.301, Jazzybee Verlag

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