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Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear -- St. Vincent
To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed. -- Felix Frankfurter
No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts. -- Herbert Spencer
First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. -- Virginia Woolf
Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds. -- Stephen Crane
I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden. -- John Milius
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. -- Cyril Connolly
Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. -- Edward Young
To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em. -- Hilaire Belloc
No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead. -- Gail Carson Levine
The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute. -- Omar Khayyam
And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and the gold? -- Thomas Wolfe
Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the leaden weight of which does not let it move. -- Emma Goldman
Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air. -- Alexander Pope

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