Reston
Americannoun
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Now, with the publication of her first book-length collection in English, “Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm,” in a lyrical translation by Fiona Sze-Lorrain, a new audience has a chance to hear the thunderclap.
From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2021
Obama, graying now, more exhausted than he admits, carried the wreath at Arlington to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier: “Here Rests in Honored Glory an American Soldier Known But to God.”
From The New Yorker • Nov. 17, 2016
White crosses marked their graves, bearing the words “Here Rests in Honored Glory A Comrade in Arms. Known but to God.”
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2014
Football’s Future Rests on Parents as Much as Players Sherman Howard, 87, played professional football for five years and was a longtime high school coach in Chicago.
From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2012
Rests are as important to the music as are the sounded rhythms because, just like language, rests use silence to help organize the sounds so we can better understand them.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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