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Letter "B" » break wind
«Being married means I can [break wind] and eat ice cream in bed.»
«All at onceA fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream,And I am in the wilderness alone.»
Author: William Cullen Bryant
(Writer)
| Keywords:
all at once, break wind, fresher, sweeps, the Wilderness, wilderness
«The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.»
«People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.»
Author: Sarah Jessica Parker
(Actress)
| Keywords:
bar, blind date, break wind, broke, casino, casinos, dates, Gone With the Wind, hoping, jackpot, mostly, The Casino, wind up
«Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.»
«Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.»
«'Lohengrin' to us ordinary mortals seemed something like the whistling of the wind through the keyholes of a cathedral, which has a dreamy charm for a little while, but by and by you long for the sound even of a street organ to rush in and break the»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
break even, break wind, by and by, cathedral, charm, dreamy, keyholes, mortals, organ, rush, seemed, The Cathedral, The Sound, Through the Keyhole, whistled, whistles, whistling
«O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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Archer, at random, break wind, random, shaft, shafting, shafts, soothe, The Archer, The Archers
«Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven»
Author: Thomas Fuller
(Clergyman, Writer)
| Keywords:
at full speed, blowing, break wind, nimbleness, storms, tempests, The Tempest, wrecking
«Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
antiquity, beard, belly, blasted, break wind, cheek, chin, chinned, chins, decreased, decreases, decreasing, increasing, leg, moist, take it on the chin, yellow
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