"Boundless and bare"/ "shatter'd visage"/ "king of kings"/ "colossal wreck"/
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Key London Quotes
"Chartered street"/ "chartered Thames"/ "Infants cry of fear"/ " blood down palace walls"/ "blights with plagues"
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Key Prelude Quotes
"Act of stealth"/ "troubled pleasure"/ "Proud of his skill... With an unswerving line"/ "huge peak black and huge"/ "Upreared its head"/ "dim and undetermined"/ "measured motion"/ "like living men"/ "trouble to my dreams"
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Key MLD Quotes
"That's my last duchess"/ "as if she were alive"/ "if they durst"/ "I choose never to stoop"/ I gave commands"/ "my gift of a hundred year old name"
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Key Charge of the Light Brigade Quotes
"Rode the six hundred"/ "Valley of death"/ "shot and shell"/ "jaws of Death...mouth of Hell"/ "Charging...Plunged...Reel'd"/ "Shatter'd and sunder'd"/ "Volley'd and thunder'd"/ "horse and hero fell"/ "When can their glory fade?"/ "Noble six hundred"
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Key Exposure Quotes
"Our brains ache"/ "merciless iced winds"/ "confuse...worried...curious,nervous"/ "men among its brambles"/ "What are we doing here?"/ "ranks on shivering ranks"/ "snow-dazed...sun-dozed"/ "Is it that we are dying?"/ "But nothing happens"
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Key Storm on the Island Quotes
"We are prepared"/ "wizened earth"/ "Exploding comfortably"/ "spits like a tame cat turned savage"/ "strafes...salvo...bombarded"/ "it is a huge nothing that we fear"
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Key Bayonet Charge Quotes
"Suddenly he awoke"/ "bullets smacking the belly out of the air"/ "rifle numb as a smashed arm"/ "patriotic tear"/ "cold clockwork"/ "rolled like a flame"/ "green hedge"/ "his terror's touchy dynamite"
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Key Remains Quotes
"probably armed possibly not"/ "it rips through his life"/ "sort of inside out"/ "his blood-shadow stays on the street"/ "dug in behind enemy lines"/ "his bloody life in my bloody hands"
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Key Poppies Quotes
"individual war graves"/ "smoothed down your shirt's"/ "graze my nose"/ "I was brave"/ "overflowing like a treasure chest"/ "ticks, darts, pleats"/ " like a wishbone"/ "hoping to hear"/ playground voice catching in the wind"
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Key War Photographer Quotes
"spools of suffering played out in neat rows"/ "He has a job to do"/ "his hands, which did not tremble then"/ "a half-formed ghost"/ "a hundred agonies in black and white"/ "Sundays supplement.....they do not care"
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Key Tissue Quotes
"light shine through"/ "pages smoothed and stroked and turned"/ "if buildings were paper"/ "Maps too."/ "Fine slips....might fly our lives like paper kites"/ "the shapes that pride can make"/ "a structure never meant to last"/ "turned into your skin"
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Key Emigree Quotes
"There once was a country..."/ "sunlight-clear"/ "branded by an impression of sunlight"/ "time rolls its tanks"/ "it tastes of sunlight"/ "no way back at all"/ "they accuse me"/ "free city"/ "evidence of sunlight"
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Key Kamikaze Quotes
"embarked at sunrise"/ "full of powerful incantations"/ "little fishing boats strung out like bunting"/ "green-blue translucent sea"/ "remembered how he"/ "- yes, grandfather's boat"/ "And though he came back...they treated him as though he no longer
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Key Checking Out Me History Quotes
"Dem tell me"/ "Bandage up me eye...Blind me"/ "me own history...me own identity"/ "1066 and all dat"/ "de cow who jump over de moon"/ "dem tell me wha dem want to tell me"/ "I carving out me identity"
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
"Chartered street"/ "chartered Thames"/ "Infants cry of fear"/ " blood down palace walls"/ "blights with plagues"
Back
Key London Quotes
Card 3
Front
"Act of stealth"/ "troubled pleasure"/ "Proud of his skill... With an unswerving line"/ "huge peak black and huge"/ "Upreared its head"/ "dim and undetermined"/ "measured motion"/ "like living men"/ "trouble to my dreams"
Back
Card 4
Front
"That's my last duchess"/ "as if she were alive"/ "if they durst"/ "I choose never to stoop"/ I gave commands"/ "my gift of a hundred year old name"
Back
Card 5
Front
"Rode the six hundred"/ "Valley of death"/ "shot and shell"/ "jaws of Death...mouth of Hell"/ "Charging...Plunged...Reel'd"/ "Shatter'd and sunder'd"/ "Volley'd and thunder'd"/ "horse and hero fell"/ "When can their glory fade?"/ "Noble six hundred"
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