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«There was an old man with a beard, Who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, Four larks and a wren Have all built their nests in my beard»
«Sir Christopher Wren / Said, `I am going to dine with some men, / If anybody calls / Say I am designing St Paul's.'»
Author: Eric Bentley
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Christopher, Christopher Wren, designing, dine, Sir Christopher Wren, St. Paul, St Paul, wren, wrens
«Within the oftentimes bombastic and truculent appearance that I present to the world, trembles a heart shy as a wren in the hedgerow or a mouse along the wainscoting»
Author: George Moore
(Philosopher)
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bombastic, hedgerow, hedgerows, oftentimes, shy, shyest, Too Shy, trembles, truculent, wainscoting, wren, wrens
«I was never beautiful like Miss Hayworth or Miss Lamarr. I was known as the little brown wren. Who'd want to get me at the end of the picture?»
«A wren in the hand is better than a crane to be caught.»
«Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings / I bore this wren till I was tired with soaring, / And now he mounts above me.»
«Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.»
«You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.»
«He who shall hurt the little wren / Shall never be beloved by men.»
«Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight»
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