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Letter "D" » dreadfully
«The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.»
«The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.»
«Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
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alike, cracked, dreadfully, mending, mercy, pagans, Presbyterian, Presbyterians, sadly, somehow
«Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins»
Author: Iris Murdoch
(Novelist, Philosopher)
| About:
Jealousy,
Sin
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dreadfully, involuntary, jealousy, sins
«Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
People
| Keywords:
dreadfully
«Whatever else you may be sure of, be sure of this: that you are dreadfully like other people»
«People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.»
«The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their ''Hub',' as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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accomplishment, amusing, atmosphere, Baltimore, bores, bustle, bustles, bustling, Chicago, dine, dine in, dreadfully, hub, hubs, monster, Philadelphia, prig, prigs, provincial, sadly, shop, suburban, tedious, vestry
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