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«FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul.The sea was calm and the sky was blue; Merrily, merrily sailed we two.(High barometer maketh glad.) On the tipsy ship, with a dreadful shout, The tempest descended and we fell out.(O the walking is nasty bad!) --Armit Huff Bettle»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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bad weather, barometer, Big Blue, descended, dreadful, fair weather, foul, high sea, huff, huffing, huffs, merrily, nasty, shout, tempest, tempests, The Big Blue, The Tempest, The Walking, tipsy
«Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.»
«Merrily taking twopenny ale and cheese with a pocket knife; / But these were luxuries not for him who went for the Simple Life.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
ale, cheese, knife, luxuries, merrily, pocket, pocket knife, The Simple Life, twopenny
«To be content with life - or to live merrily, rather -all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.»
«I don't like small birds. They hop around so merrily outside my window, looking so innocent. but I know that secretly, they're watching my every move and plotting to beat me over the head with a large steel pipe and take my shoe.»
«The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,/ Merrily did we drop.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
cheered, cleared, harbour, merrily
«Merrily, merrily shall I live now,Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
blossom, bough, hangs, merrily
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