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Letter "D" » dead letter
«And my lament / Is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent / To dearest him that lives alas! away.»
«But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.»
«R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of _requiescat in pace_, attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than _reductus in pulvis_.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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abbreviation, attesting, attests, careless, dead letter, Dr., Dr
«The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
dead letter, for all intents and purposes, intents, to all intents and purposes
«Here is the first passionate love-letter I have ever written in my life. Strange, that my first passionate love-letter should have been addressed to a dead girl. Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?»
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