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Letter "H" » hissed
«The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing»
«Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell»
«Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.»
Author: Aesop
(Author, Fabulist)
| Keywords:
applaud, applauding, applauds, hiss, hissed, hisses, imitation, imitations, real thing, The Real Thing
«Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
applaud, butter, cattle, diseased, free speech, hissed, impure, regulated
«And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
astonishment, Babylon, dragons, heaps, hissed, hisses, hissing, inhabitant
«There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.»
«Then suddenly out of the gloom came a sharp hiss. 'What has it got in its pocketses?'»
«An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy»
«Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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God,
Inspiration
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chosen, divine spirit, emit, emits, emitted, emitting, flatulence, hissed, hisses, Holy Spirit, inspiration, peculiar, the Holy Spirit
«I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.»
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