It is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with the columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent.
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Columbine
/ˈkɒləmˌbaɪn/
Synonyms for "columbine" (19 found)
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4 entriesAquilegia canadensisAquilegia vulgarismass shootingschool shooting
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6 entriesAquilegia canadensisAquilegia vulgariscolumbine cultivargranny's bonnetred columbinewild columbine
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1 entriesDerivations
2 entriescolumbine flowercolumbine plant
Sample sentences
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In 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold killed 12 of their fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives in the school library.
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The Clown is a London cockney, with a prodigious eye to his own comfort and muffins,—a Lord Mayor's fool, who loved "everything that was good;" and Columbine is the boarding-school girl, ripe for running away with, and making a dance of it all the way from Chelsea to Gretna Green.
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Research indicates that many children are afraid of “a Columbine” occurring in their school, or are concerned about other forms of school violence (Aronson, 2000; Garbarino & deLara, 2002; Gaughan et al., 2001; National Association of Attorneys General, 2000).
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