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«I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral»
«Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.»
Author: Craig Claiborne
| Keywords:
casting, connoisseur, connoisseurs, giant panda, jolly, lean, panda, physically, physique, rolled, rolled into one, slender, The Connoisseur
«Jolly boating weather, / And a hay harvest breeze, / Blade on the feather, / Shade off the trees.»
«I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I've never tasted it.»
«I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!»
«I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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amity, hazarding, jolly, modestly, predisposition, refusal, suitor, suitors
«ARCHBISHOP, n. An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.If I were a jolly archbishop, On Fridays I'd eat all the fish up -- Salmon and flounders and smelts; On other days everything else. --Jodo Rem»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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archbishop, Archbishop of, dignitaries, dignitary, ecclesiastical, flounder, floundering, flounders, Fridays, holier, jolly, REM, salmon, smelted, smelts, the fish
«It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
at present, bird, decent, egg, egged, egging, eggs, egg on, fly, flying bird, go bad, go on, hard, harder, hatched, hatches, hatching, indefinitely, in ordinary, jollier, jolly, on sight, ordinary, present, remaining, sight, sighting, The Eggs, To Fly, turn, would-be
«And so it is over; but we had a jolly time, whilst you were with us, hadn't we?»
«Heigh ho! sing, heigh ho! unto the green holly:Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:Then heigh ho, the holly!This life is most jolly.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
feigning, Holly, jollier, jolly
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