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Letter "F" » fur
«I'd rather go naked than wear fur.»
«It is not the weight of jewel or plate, Or the fondle of silk or fur; 'Tis the spirit in which the gift is rich, As the gifts of the Wise Ones were, And we are not told whose gift was gold»
Author: Edmund Vance Cooke
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fondle, fondles, fur, furred, gold plate, jewel, plate, silk, silks, The Weight, weight
«Mrs Upson had two fur coats and two chins. Mr Upson had two chins, two passions-gold and business-and two aversions, Roosevelt and Jews.»
Author: Patrick Dennis
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aversions, chinned, chins, coats, fur, fur coat, Mrs, Roosevelt, take it on the chin
«A man does not buy his wife a fur coat to keep her warm, but to keep her pleasant»
«I'm gonna design my own fleet of trailers. No! I'm gonna record an album like Jennifer Lopez. It'll be an acoustic version of K.C. and the Sunshine Band. Then maybe I'll design a line of clothes like Puff Daddy, but all in synthetic fur.»
«If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur»
«Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?»
Author: Jean Paul Richter
(Novelist)
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Heart
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covering, coverings, feathers, fur, no-account
«For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit's foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit's foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.»
«I think people tend to forget that trees are living creatures. They're sort of like dogs. Huge, quiet, motionless dogs, with bark instead of fur.»
«I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.»
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