Sentence examples for stumps of time from inspiring English sources

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In Pieter Bruegel the Elder's harsh portrayal of the three kings, they are exhausted old men, withered stumps of time, their myopic and senile faces unable to truly understand what they have seen.

Once again in the words of T.S. Eliot, "... withered stumps of time... told upon the walls," uncover uncommon denominators.

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No stumps – sensibly – always a waste of time trying to persuade them to stand up, the seawall serves as one wicket and a hoodie the other.

Except making the same stump speech hundreds of times.

Bowling outside off stump to Richardson was a waste of time because he just left it.

She had spent a lot of time in Iowa, stumping for her husband, and, despite the comforting sense of familiarity, she said, "I was shy in the beginning".

Even Senator John McCain, who is an architect of the most reasonable bill out there but also has presidential primaries on his mind, spent a lot of time this fall stumping for misguided restrictionists like Mr. Graf.

Bush spends a good deal of time on the stump deriding his rival, and the rest of the time he projects the attitude of a man who is running unopposed — which he could be forgiven for thinking if the election depended simply on who is the better campaigner.

Bush spends a good deal of time on the stump deriding his rival, and the rest of the time he projects the attitude of a man who is running unopposed which he could be forgiven for thinking if the election depended simply on who is the better campaigner.

He spent a lot of time in 2008 out on the stump campaigning for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

The volume per hectare of stumps was ten times greater than that of slash but conversely, the lateral surface area of slash was five times greater than the cut surface area of stumps.

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