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His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.
- Genesis 49:12
His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.
- Job 40:17
His bones are tubes of bronze; his limbs are rods of iron.
- Job 40:18
Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORD or fully proclaim His praise?
- Psalm 106:2
Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had described. But Him they did not see.”
- Luke 24:24
The whole assembly fell silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul describing the signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.
- Acts 15:12
I had believed the Bible always, but reading it now had nothing to do with belief. It was simply a description of the way things were--of hell and heaven, of how men act and how God acts.
- Corrie Ten Boom
those questions at sufficient length. If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine,—which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having been a monstrosity,—it is the key to many reservations. I felt convinced that if I described Miss Havisham's as my eyes had seen it, I should not be understood.
- Charles Dickens
When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.
- Lewis Carroll
the girl's face was as tight and mean as broccoli
- Toni Morrison
A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.
- John Updike
Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.
- Milan Kundera