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Letter "S" » stray
«I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.»
Author: Janette Barber
| Keywords:
chin, chinned, chins, eyebrow, eyebrows, hairs, stray, take it on the chin
«According to my sister, the expert novelist Jackie Collins, most men stray. And sex doesn't mean anything to most men. But I wouldn't date a man who slept around. Absolutely not. I've divorced people for that.»
«If with me you'll fondly stray, / Over the hills and far away.»
«Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way»
Author: Thomas Gray
(Poet)
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Keep cool, noiseless, sequester, sequestered, stray, vale, vales
«HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.Lo! the poor humorist, whose tortured mind See jokes in crowds, though still to gloom inclined -- Whose simple appetite, untaught to stray, His brains, renewed by night, consumes by day. He thinks, admitted to an equal sty, A graceful hog would bear his company. --Alexander Poke»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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austerity, consumes, crowds, gloom, his company, hoar, hog, humorists, persuaded, plague, poking, renewed, softened, stray, the humorist, untaught
«It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.»
«An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.»
«Graze on my lips, and if those hills are dry, Stray lower where the pleasant fountains lie»
«Himself a wanderer from the narrow way, / His silly sheep, what wonder if they stray?»
«In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.»
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