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1 " Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures. "
2 " The pupil of a goat's eye is elongate like a cat's, but if you look closely you'll see that it's in the horizontal position, and if you look closer still you'll see that it's less gracefully shaped, more of a ragged slot, dirty yellow. And you'll see that the white of a goat's eye is all black. "
3 " When we unnecessarily elongate the process of " learning to read," we postpone " reading to learn" - learning itself - by years. "
4 " For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like a plot of land. To work her, plow her under, rain down a dreadful poison upon her. Miraculously, it causes these girls to grow. They elongate on the pale slender stalks of their longing, like sunflowers with heavy heads. You can shield them with your body and soul, trying to absorb that awful rain, but they'll still move toward him. Without cease they'll bend to his light. "
― Barbara Kingsolver , The Poisonwood Bible
5 " Luminet males had definite differences from human ones. They were taller, generally bigger, their bones were denser, but the really big difference was the ability to elongate their tongues. She'd heard about it even before Aeron, but actually feeling it... "
― Savannah Stuart , Claiming Her Warriors (Lumineta, #2)
6 " A great perfumer can take the visual perfection of living flowers and materials and elongate and morph it's lifespann into olfactory bliss. "
― Marian Bendeth Global Fragrance Expert, Sixth Scents
7 " A great perfumer can take the visual perfection of living flowers and materials and elongate and morph it's lifespan into olfactory bliss. "