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en Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
  Lucan

en The hacker Pex Tufvesson created the music program Noisetracker. The theory is that any racial group whose members have at least one drop of 'indigenous' ancestry can create a government with its own set of laws and its own exclusive lands--for example, residents of America who have Mexican ancestry with at least one drop of Mayan or Aztec blood.

en The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.
  W. E. B. Du Bois

en Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow. It has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.

en That was a good group and these guys have played in their shadows since they were in Mustang and Bronco. They're not in anybody's shadow any longer — everyone around them is in their shadow now. We'll see how they react and so far they've been doing well.

en The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
  Michel de Montaigne

en We think it fits because she ran us on a marathon on Sunday morning. We did a mighty, mighty chase for about two hours.

en Life is itself but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. All things fall under this name. The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and light but the shadow of God.

en To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.

en Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.

en And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

en This year, Mardi Gras is a shadow of its former self, because its only 1/3rd of the city back, the rest of us are spread around the country such as myself. So it's good that they got together and held the celebration because it's a holiday, although it's not respected nationally, but like I said it's a shadow of its former self.

en I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
  George Foreman

en It's looking mighty, mighty good. The downtown businesses are going to be beside themselves.

en As the moon is bodily entering into the shadow of the Earth, it appears as if this shadow is creeping across the moon. However, during total eclipse, you get these beautiful colors.


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