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«The pack slumbered and only a few watchdogs rattled their chains.»
«There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?»
Author: Danny DeVito
(Actor)
| Keywords:
dilemmas, get rid of, hang, hang on, human skull, rattle, rattled, rid, rid of, skull, skulls, The Skull
«The first tramcars rattled noisily through the empty streets, dilapidated monsters that just hours later would be festooned with people on their way to work.»
«County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?»
Author: Calvin & Hobbes
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
allowed, counties, county, definition, desk, desks, hello, hellos, library, not allowed, rattle, rattled, rattle off, reference, references, spell, swear, swear off, with reference to
«I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family»
Author: Douglas Jerrold
(Humorist, Journalist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
bell, dice, dicing, funeral, rattled, rattling, The Funeral
«It was a dark and stormy night and the rain fell in torrents except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fierce»
«Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
advertising, bucket, buckets, rattled, rattling, stick, swill, swilling
«Did ye not hear it? - No; 'twas but the wind, / Or the car rattling o'er the stony street;/ On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; / No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet / To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.»
Author: Lord Byron
| Keywords:
chase, flying, glowing, let fly, morn, rattled, rattling, sleeping car, stony, The Car, unconfined
«Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
laughs, rattle, rattled, runs, shaking
«Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
alter, care for, child care, greatly, lad, old man, rattle, rattled, tastes, The old man, The Young Man, whore, young man
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