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Letter "W" » waning
«Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.»
Author: Al Spalding
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Baseball,
Interest
| Keywords:
professional baseball, salaries, wane, wanes, waning
«Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane, / The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again: / How oft hereafter rising shall she look;/ Through this same Garden after me - in vain!»
«Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.»
Author: Julius K. Nyerere
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aspirations, as if by magic, betterment, immediate, rhino, roll, wane, waned, wanes, waning
«My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.»
«A savage place! as holy and enchanted / As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted / By woman wailing for her demon lover!»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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demon, enchanted, haunted, Holy Places, savage, wailed, wailing, wane, waned, wanes, waning
«Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in moods, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement mixer long after one's interest in the topic has waned»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
(Humorist, Writer)
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cement mixer, discussing, insensitive, mixer, notoriously, persist, shifts, waned, waning
«So sicken waning moons too near the sun,/ And blunt their crescents on the edge of day.»
«It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color»
«Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, / And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.»
«Summer wanes; the children are grown;Fun and frolic no more he knows. . . .»
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