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Letter "D" » decked
«I sang as one / Who on a tilting deck sings / To keep men's courage up, though the wave hangs / That shall cut off their sun.»
«If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.»
«I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.»
«And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.»
«I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.»
«And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: / And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.»
Author: Bible
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«I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.»
Author: Ann Landers
(Advice columnist)
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«HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old-fashioned sea-captains. It is also used in the construction of the upper decks of steamboats, but generally speaking, the hurricane's usefulness has outlasted it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.»
«A night-cap decked his brows instead of bay, / A cap by night - a stocking all the day!»
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