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Letter "E" » engagement
«World War I, that tiresome European engagement that threatened to close down French couture.»
Author: Caroline Seebohm
| About:
War
| Keywords:
close down, couture, engagement, engagements, European, threatened, tiresome, world war, World War I
«Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.»
Author: Edna Ferber
| Keywords:
cocoon, cocoons, cradled, engagement, engagements, Monday, ribbon, ribbons, tied, tied up, typewriter ribbon, white paper, white tie
«My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.»
Author: Elizabeth Taylor
(Actress)
| About:
Babies
| Keywords:
engagement, engagements, engagement ring
«We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski
| Keywords:
engagement
«'Enjoying it?' I don't reckon he'd come home if Dad didn't make him. He's obsessed. Just don't get him onto the subject of his boss. According to Mr. Crouch...as I was saying to Mr Crouch...Mr. Crouch is of the opinion...Mr. Crouch was telling me...They'll be announcing their engagement any day now.»
Author: Joanne Kathleen Rowling
(Writer)
| Keywords:
announcing, Any Day Now, boss, come home, crouch, crouched, dad, engagement, engagements, enjoying, obsessed, onto, reckon
«I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.»
Author: David Ogilvy
| About:
Clients and customers,
Sales
| Keywords:
attend, beach, client, convention, engagement, engagements, pebble, polygamy, previous, spouse
«I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
decline, engagement, engagements, owing, subsequent
«Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
arrange, come on, engaged, engagement, engagements, hardly a, inform, pardon, unpleasant
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