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With the "tremendous" acclaim of Fire and Water at their backs, in the words of AllMusic, Free headlined the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival with an estimated audience of 600,000 to 700,000 attendees and "appeared destined for superstardom". [2] [3] [4] Fire and Water peaked at No. 2 on the U.K. album chart, being listed on it for a total of ...
Like Water, Like Fire is the first and still the most comprehensive anthology of Belarusian poetry in English translation. Its full title is Like water, like fire: an anthology of Byelorussian poetry from 1828 to the present day. It was published in London in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works series in 1971.
There exists a Russian idiom, "to go through fire, water, and trumpets" (пройти огонь, воду и медные трубы), meaning approximately "to go to hell and back"; in other words, to persevere in the face of extreme adversity. [1] The story follows Vasya, a young collier who ventures into the forest to burn charcoal.
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"Fire and Water", 1971 hit single by Wilson Pickett; Fire and Water, a 1970 album by Free "Fire and Water", title track on the album; Fire & Water (Ecoutez Vos Murs), a 1983 album by Dave Greenfield and Jean-Jacques Burnel
A metaphor asserts the objects in the comparison are identical on the point of comparison, while a simile merely asserts a similarity through use of words such as like or as. For this reason a common-type metaphor is generally considered more forceful than a simile. [15] [16] The metaphor category contains these specialized types:
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In addition, modern English forms are given for comparison purposes. Nouns are given in their nominative case, with the genitive case supplied in parentheses when its stem differs from that of the nominative. (For some languages, especially Sanskrit, the basic stem is given in place of the nominative.) Verbs are given in their "dictionary form".