A Dictionary of Burning Words

Six hundred pages of the sharpest lines from 'the literature of all ages,' filed by subject — built for orators, preachers and anyone who needs the perfect quotation.

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10 subjects in this part of Burning Words.

Waiting

4 quotations

War

2 quotations

Weariness

3 quotations

Will

8 quotations

Wisdom

8 quotations

Woman

3 quotations

Works

7 quotations

World

2 quotations

Worldliness

15 quotations

Worth

3 quotations

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