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Letter "T" » thumping
«Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.»
«Asked to explain Zen my puppy with the same name looks, and thumps his tail»
Author: Jay Hackett
| Keywords:
puppies, puppy, same name, tail, the same name, thump, thumping, thumps, Zen
«BACCHUS, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.Is public worship, then, a sin, That for devotions paid to Bacchus The lictors dare to run us in, And resolutely thump and whack us? --Jorace»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ancients, convenient, devotions, thump, thumping, thumps, whack, whacked, whacking, whacks
«The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder.»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(Statesman)
| About:
Communism
| Keywords:
thump, thumping, thumps, thunder, unrepentant
«You can't reason with the heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.»
«A strange thing has happened -- while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything before it has anything to say. It is as if the savage tribe, instead of finding two bars of iron to play with, had found scattering the seashore fiddles, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, grand pianos by Erhard and Bechstein, and had begun with incredible energy, but without knowing a note of music, to hammer and thump upon them all at the same time.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
clothed, fiddles, flutes, hammer, pianos, saxophone, saxophones, scattering, seashore, thump, thumping, thumps, tribe, trumpets, Two Tribes, youngest
«Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: ''the Son, O how unlike the Father!'' First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
God Almighty, Son o, thump, thumping, thumps, worshipper
«The man that hails you Tom or Jack, / And proves by thumps upon your back / How he esteems your merit, / Is such a friend, that one had need / Be very much his friend indeed / To pardon or to bear it.»
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