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• A sense of electrical current was part of my own experience of being manic. The sensation that my mind was spinning and overheating would sometimes build to a sensation like an electrical short - a burst of light, a melting, or dissipating - and I'd get a metallic taste in my mouth, like when you lick a battery.

  Ellen Forney

  Light, Mind, Batteries

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• From that moment onwards, our loathsome society rushed, like Narcissus, to contemplate its trivial image on a metallic plate. A form of lunacy, an extraordinary fanaticism took hold of these new sun-worshippers.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sun, Moments, That Moment

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.295, CUP Archive

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• It is therefore necessary to prepare the imminent and inevitable identification of man with the motor, facilitating and perfecting an incessant exchange of intuition, rhythm, instinct and metallic discipline, quite utterly unknown to the majority of humanity and only divined by the most lucid mind.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Men, Discipline, Humanity

  "International Futurism in Arts and Literature" by Günter Berghaus, (p. 318), 2000.

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• What matters most has an ultimate metallic quality of death. The chasuble and the wagon wheel, the razor and the prickly beards of shepherds, the bare moon, a fly, humid cupboards, rubble piles, the images of saints covered in lace, quicklime, and the wounding edges of the rooflines and watchtowers.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Moon, What Matters, Quality

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• A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.

  Frank J. Tipler

  Intelligent, People, Understanding

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• When one speaks of increasing power, machinery, and industry there comes up a picture of a cold, metallic sort of world in which great factories will drive away the trees, the flowers, the birds, and the green fields. And that then we shall have a world composed of metal machines and human machines. With all of that I do not agree. I think that unless we know more about the machines and their use, unless we better understand the mechanical portion of life, we cannot have the time to enjoy the trees, and the birds, and the flowers, and the green fields.

  Henry Ford

  Flower, Thinking, Green Fields

  Henry Ford, Rose Wilder Lane, Samuel Crowther “The Story of Henry Ford - An American Dream Cone True”, Lulu.com

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• The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic sound of a gramophone.

  Vance Palmer

  Optimistic, Voice, America

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• The metallic silver coating found on fast-food game cards.

  Rich Hall

  Humorous, Games, Cards

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• Fossils are of four kinds, viz. saline, earthy, inflammable and metallic; hence arise four classes.

  Torbern Bergman

  Class, Four, Fossils

  William Withering, Torbern Bergman (1822). “The miscellaneous tracts of the late William Withering: to which is prefixed a memoir of his life, character, and writings”, p.15

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• Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky.

  John Gould Fletcher

  Flower, Yellow, Sky

  John Gould Fletcher, Lucas Carpenter, Leighton Rudolph (1988). “Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher”, p.174, University of Arkansas Press

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• Several days in a row we sighted groups of metallic, saucer-shaped vehicles at great altitudes over the base Germany, 1951 and we tried to get close to them, but they were able to change direction faster than our fighters. I do believe UFOs exist and that the truly unexplained ones are from some other technically advanced civilization.

  Gordon Cooper

  Believe, Civilization, Groups

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• We may indeed live yet to see, or at least we may feel some confidence that those who come after us will see, such bodies as oxygen and hydrogen in the liquid, perhaps even in the solid state, and the question of their metallic or non-metallic nature thereby finally settled.

  Thomas Andrews

  Science, Oxygen, Body

  Thomas Andrews (1889). “The Scientific Papers of the Late Thomas Andrews ...”

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• Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Success, Lying

  H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

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• If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morning, Fire, Jewels

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• The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some of which appear flat on bottom and domed on top. These objects are as large as man-made aircraft and have a metallic or light-reflecting surface. Further they exhibit extreme rates of climb and maneuverability with no associated sound and take action which must be considered evasive when contacted by aircraft and radar.

  Nathan Farragut Twining

  Military, Real, Men

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• [Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, Pechblende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be supplied by another more appropriate name. I have chosen that of Uranium, as a kind of memorial, that the chemical discovery of this new metal happened in the period of astronomical discovery of the new planet Uranus.

  Martin Heinrich Klaproth

  Science, Discovery, Names

  "Analytical Essays towards Promoting the Chemical Knowledge of Mineral Substances" by Martin Heinrich Klaproth, London: Cadell & Davies, 1801.

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• Looking at her, he was in London again. He saw the gaslight and smelled the smoke and dirt and horses, the metallic tang of fog, the flowers in Kew Gardens. He saw a boy with black hair and blue eyes like Alec's. A girl with long brown curls and a serious face. In a world where everything went away from him eventually, she was one of the few remaining constants.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Horse, Flower

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the ribcage, and that metallic tingling in the chin set off by a certain odd nerve: unpleasure.

  Fleur Adcock

  Writing, Solitude, Feelings

  Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

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• Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now be transformed to the image of woman. The more technical and mechanical, cold and metallic it becomes, the more it will need the kind of warmth that only the woman can give it. If we want to save the world, we must adapt to the woman, let ourselves be led by the woman, let ourselves be penetrated by the Ewigweiblich, the eternally feminine!

  Milan Kundera

  War, Mean, Men

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• Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the threat. 'I knit handcuffs as a hobby,' explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. 'Idle hands get up to no good, so I like to be prepared in case I meet up with any idle hands.

  Gregory Maguire

  Knitting, Hands, Two

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• I was just wondering if you were armed. You want anything? Dagger, maybe?" He opened his own suit jacket just a bit, and Simon saw something long an metallic glinting against the inside lining. "No wonder you and Jace like each other so much. You're both crazy walking arsenals.

  Cassandra Clare

  Crazy, Long, Want

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• We started this together, Leo. Seems only right you come along. You find us a ride, you're in." "Yes!" Leo pumped his fist. * * * * * Jason gazed up at the dragon and shook his head in amazement. "Leo, what have you done?" "Found a ride!" Leo beamed. "You said I could go on the quest if I got you a ride. Well, I got you a class-A metallic flying bad boy! Festus can take us anywhere!

  Rick Riordan

  Boys, Class, Dragons

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• It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day easily associated with those abstract truths and purities that dissolve in the sunshine or fade out in mocking laughter by the light of the moon. The trees and clouds were carved in classical severity; the sounds of the countryside had harmonized to a monotone, metallic as a trumpet, breathless as the Grecian urn.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Laughter, Sunshine

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (1995). “This Side of Paradise”, p.246, Cambridge University Press

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• Hey, boss? (Vik) Not now, Vik. (Syn) Dude, listen to the metallic life form. (Vik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boss, Hey, Form

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• Metallic trees. That's new. If you see any steel dryads, be sure to tell me so I can run away screaming.

  Julie Kagawa

  Running, Tree, Steel

  Julie Kagawa (2010). “The Iron King”, p.88, Harlequin

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