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Letter "S" » stockings
«No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.»
Author: Alfred E. Smith
(Governor)
| Keywords:
Claus, Clauses, fireplace, fireplaces, hung, local, municipal, official, sane, Santa, Santa Claus, stocking, stockings
«In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.»
«Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles without a man beside them, for wearing outlandish attire (for example, shorts, s»
Author: Geoffrey Perrett
| Keywords:
appearing, arrested, attire, attired, automobiles, beaches, cigarettes, First world, First World War, for example, outlandish, shorts, smoking, stockings, world war
«I've never worn stockings and suspenders though. I'll save that experience and wear them under my wedding dress.»
«Garter, n.: An elastic band intended to keep a woman from coming out of her stockings and desolating the country.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Coming out, desolating, elastic, elastic band, garter, garters, stockings
«After today, I'll bet Santa takes a shovel to the reindeer stalls to fill your stocking.»
«Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth»
«All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| Keywords:
answered, bogey, capped, caps, dislikes, early childhood, encountered, face value, heroes, intensities, labeled, masks, penetrable, races, stocking, stockings, tactic, tactics, the town, town, unanswered
«A night-cap decked his brows instead of bay, / A cap by night - a stocking all the day!»
«I'll come no more behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities»
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