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«I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused, And dusty crumbling of romance!»
«The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
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Politicians
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clause, cracking, disused, exploring, groping, imminent, nasty, shafting, shafts, shin, shinning, shins, subjunctive, subordinates, subordinate clause, timorous
«As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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disused, innovate, innovating, popular opinion
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