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«For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.»
Author: Johnny Carson
(Host)
| Keywords:
after death, fingernail, phone, phone call, taper, tapers, taper off
«Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.»
«He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me»
«'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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musingly, taper, tapers, Tories, Tory, Whig, Whigs
«Start slow and taper off.»
«Here are sweet-peas, on tip-toe for a flight:/ With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white,/ And taper fingers catching at all things, / To bind them all about with tiny rings.»
«Out went the taper as she hurried in; / Its little smoke, in pallid moonshine, died.»
«And hold up to the sun my little taper.»
«Therefore, to be possessed with double pomp,To guard a title that was rich before,To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,To throw a perfume on the violet,To smooth the ice, or add another hueUnto the rainbow, or with taper lightTo seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.»
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