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"Facet" Quotes from Famous Books

... investigated, and I could devote pages of detail on how we looked into every facet of the incident; but it will suffice to say that in every facet we looked into we saw nothing. Nothing but a big question mark asking what ...

— The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects • Edward Ruppelt

... is of it, and is luminous not with a mere facet flash of its philosophy but with the whole orb of it. To him the Russians "are more than human, they ...

— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86

... self renunciation, and sacrifices not yet known or understood. Its initiations are endless; its revelations of the infinite law are, at times, too seemingly trifling for recognition; but as the lapidary leaves no facet of the jewel uncut and unpolished, so the guardians—the guides and teachers of the candidates for spiritual unfoldment—omit no least lesson or discipline that can aid in ...

— Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul • Anna Bishop Scofield

... The one bright facet of the many-sided and gloomy crisis was the very obvious truth that Robert was the most extraordinary child ...

— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett

... had completely and sharply focussed the most adverse possible attitude toward that: he saw it without a redeeming feature and bare of any chance of pleasure. His need for honesty, however special, was outraged on every facet by the thought of an intrigue. Lee reconstructed it in every detail—he saw the moments, doubtful and hurried and surreptitious, snatched in William Grove's house; the servants, with their penetration of the tone of an establishment, knowing and insufferable; he lived over the increasing ...

— Cytherea • Joseph Hergesheimer

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