Sample Essays & Free Papers For You

A reliable academic resource for high school and college students.
Essay database with free papers will provide you with original and creative ideas.

Quotations

It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. SwiftPapers now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.

Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.

Browse Keywords

(Click a letter to view the keywords)
A B
C
D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

compassed

«He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: compassed, gall, travail
«For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: billowing, compassed, floods, seas
«For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.»
«But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: / And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.»
«By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: compassed, Jericho
«And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: compassed
«For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: / Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.»
«And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? / And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: compassed, The Servant
«For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: compassed, inclose, inclosed, pierced
«Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.»

Pages: « Previous 1 2 3 4 Next »