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Letter "W" » wet
«A wet sheet and a flowing sea, / A wind that follows fast / And fills the white and rustling sail / And bends the gallant mast.»
«Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.»
«[Watching a baby being born] is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.»
«A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash»
Author: Puzant Kevork Thomajan
| About:
Laughter
| Keywords:
dry clean, dry cleaning, hearty, wash, wet
«[Monty] Woolley reduced the nurse in The Man Who Came to Dinner to the potency of a pound of wet Kleenex. It was probably the best thing that had happened to the art of the insult since the Medicis stopped talking in the 16th century.»
«As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.»
«Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting»
Author: Aeschylus
(Dramatist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
blow, blur, blurred, blurring, blurs, glitter, misfortune, paint a picture, prosperous, sponge, Sponges, wet
«All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws»
«As a young boy, when you get splashed by a mud puddle on the way to school, you wonder if you should go home and change, but be late for school, or go to school the way you are; dirty and soaking wet. Well, while he tried to decide, I drove by and splashed him again.»
«A book is like a man / clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.»
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