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«I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.»
Author: Bryan Adams
| Keywords:
in trouble, pit, rude, scrape, scraped, scrapes, scrape by, scraping, the pit, The Police
«My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.»
«Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.»
«They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.»
«They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.»
«The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
ascend, beast, behold, Book of, bottomless, dwell on, go into, perdition, pit, The Beast, The Book of Life, The Foundation, the pits
«I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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crew, crews, currently, go through, pit, pitted, procedure, procedures, The crew, the pits
«Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.»
Author: Mae West
(Actress)
| About:
Personality
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across, footlights, gleam, gleamed, gleaming, glitter, glittered, orchestra, Orchestras, orchestra pit, personality, pit, pitted, sends, the pits
«The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Appearance
| Keywords:
agitate, agitated, agitates, agitating, conjecture, conjectures, first appearance, monarch, monarchs, performances, pit, prognostication, retirement, theatrical, theatricals, the pit
«Never give succor to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit.»
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