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Letter "H" » his uncle
«My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?»
«It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning after a bender, drain a bottle of stout and say 'Ah, the chill of consciousness returns»
Author: Molly O'Neill
| About:
Drinking
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«My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.»
Author: Rodney Dangerfield
(Comedian)
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chair, electric, electric chair, his uncle, lap, uncle, uncles
«And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spake, he told him not.»
«And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.»
«And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family: / After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him: / Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.»
«And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.»
«I remember how my great-uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out of a larger toy boat I had. It was almost as good as the first one, except now it had bumpy whittle marks all over it. And no paint, because he had whittled off the paint.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
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«Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.»
«I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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daylight, his uncle, uncle, uncles
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