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«We have no faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck.»

Author: Cynthia Heimel | Keywords: core, deep down, shrill, suspects

«Uncouth tongues, horrible shriekings of despair, Shrill and faint voices, cries of pain and rage, And, with it all, smiting of hands, were there, Making a tumult, nothing could assuage, To swirl in the air that knows not day or night, Like sand withi»

Author: Dante Alighieri (Author, Poet) | Keywords: assuage, assuaged, assuages, assuaging, cries, faint, horrible, in the air, rage, shrill, smites, smiting, swirl, swirled, swirling, Swirls, tongues, tumult, tumults, uncouth, voices

«The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn,/ The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, / The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, / No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.»

Author: Thomas Gray (Poet) | Keywords: breezy, Call of, clarion, cock, echoing, horn, incense, lowly, morn, rouse, shrill, straw, The Clarion, twitter, twittering

«Christmas is here: Winds whistle shrill, Icy and chill, Little care we; Little we fear Weather without, Sheltered about The Mahogany Tree»

Author: William Makepeace Thackeray (Author, Novelist) | About: Christmas | Keywords: icy, shrill, whistle

«Prize, oh! Haul! shouted Dan, but the shout ended in a shrill, double shriek of horror, for out of the sea came - the body of the dead Frenchman buried two days before! The hook had caught him under the right armpit, and he swayed, erect and horrible, head and shoulders above water.»

Author: Rudyard Kipling | Keywords: armpit, armpits, Dan, erect, haul, hauled, hauling, haul up, head and shoulders above, shouted, shriek, shrieked, shrieking, shrieks, shrill

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