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Letter "R" » racks
«The time of the rack and the screws is come. Summer television has set in with its usual severity. And the small screen, where late the sweet birds sang, is now awash with repeats, reruns, rejects, replacements and reversions to the primitive.»
«They don't put luggage racks on hearse»
«Sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely , racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just being alive is a grand thing.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
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Sorrow
| Keywords:
acutely, despairingly, grand, racked, racking, racks, the rack, wildly
«I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.»
«The disease that racks and wastes thy limbs, and the sickness in thy heart, has flown as an eagle to a far distance, overcome by my charm.»
«RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
argumentative, implement, rack, racked, racking, racks, the rack, unconverted
«I'd like to be buried Indian-style, where they put you up on a high rack, above the ground. That way, you could get hit by meteorites and not even feel it.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
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buried, burying ground, Higher Ground, high style, hit, Indian, rack, racked, racking, racks, style, the rack, up on
«For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
ours, possession, prize, rack, racked, racking, racks, the rack, Whiles
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