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Letter "H" » horrid
«I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.»
Author: Dylan Thomas
(Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
awfully, buses, busses, cross, dirty, dirty joke, discreditable, horrid, innocence, jokes, know-all, lavatories, lavatory, lunatics, lust, roads, saints, sentences, virgins
«Here is cruel Frederick, see! / A horrid wicked boy was he.»
«A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs»
Author: Dylan Thomas
(Playwright, Poet, Writer)
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Alcohol
| Keywords:
alcoholic, alcoholics, bits, doorsteps, explosion, Explosions, horrid, intentions, limbs, pub, pubs, saloon, saloons, scatters, tawdriest, tawdry, The Explosion
«Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.»
«The horrid tale of perjury and strife,Murder and spoil, which men call history.»
«There was a little girl / Who had a little curl / Right in the middle of her forehead; / And when she was good / She was very, very good, / But when she was bad she was horrid.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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Bad Girl, Bad Girls, curl, curled up, curling, curls, curl up, forehead, horrid, in the middle, little girl
«Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, 'I told you so»
«How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June. . . . If it was only the other way! If it was I who were to be always young, and the picture that were to grow old! For this--for this--I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give!»
«Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were [the law-abiding] deprived of the use of them.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
abiding, awe, deprived, deprived of, discourage, ensue, ensued, ensues, ensuing, horrid, invader, Invaders, law-abiding, mischief, plunderer, plunderers, preserve
«The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to Him are repugnant to our ideas of His justice»
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