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Letter "D" » delectable
«It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
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board, cranberries, cranberry, cranberry sauce, delectable, goo, pink, sauce, sugared, thanksgiving, tomato, tomatoes, turkey, unchallengeable, uneatable
«To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.»
Author: Beverley Nichols
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delectable
«Its origins are ancient but it burgeons with brash modernity, and it lounges upon its delectable shore, halfway between the Israelis and the Syrians, in a posture that no such city, at such a latitude, in such a moment of history, has any reasonable excuse for assuming.»
Author: Jan Morris
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brash, burgeon, burgeoning, burgeons, delectable, Israeli, Israelis, latitude, latitudes, lounge, lounging, modernity
«Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.»
«They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.»
«LODGER, n. A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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bedder, delectable, lodger, lodgers, roomer, second person
«She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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allowed, compared, delectable, faculty, Faculty of, flower, lover, nevertheless, pluck, plucks, reborn, rose, spring, The Rose
«These high wild hills and rough uneven waysDraw out our miles and make them wearisome;But yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar,Making the hard way sweet and delectable.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
delectable, discourse, discourses, discoursing, draw, drawn-out, draw out, hills, miles, rough, sugar, sugared, The Discourses, The Hard, The Sugar, uneven, wearisome
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