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«I cannot sing the old songs I sang long years ago, And yet I cannot say I'm sad That time hath changed us so, For when I used to sing those songs, My Papa blankety blanked, And Mama took me on her knee And I, alas! was spanked»
«Litigation should be a last resort, not a knee-jerk reflex.»
Author: Irving S. Shapiro
| Keywords:
jerk, jerks, knee-jerk reflex, knee, knee jerk, last resort, litigation, reflex, reflexes, resort, The Last Resort
«My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet.»
«There was a man so very tall,That when you spoke you had to ballThrough both your hands, put like a cup,His head was such a long way up...He grew and grew - you could not seeWithout a telescope his knee;He grew till he was over-grown,And seen by oversight alone!»
«I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.»
«I just think that the knee-jerk reaction to any gun safety measure is wrong.»
«She's the only sylph I ever saw, who could stand upon one leg, and play the tambourine on her other knee, like a sylph.»
«The best academy - a mother's knee»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
academies, Academy A, knee, The academy
«I have not loved the world, nor the world me; / I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed / To its idolatries a patient knee, / Nor coined my cheek to smiles, nor cried aloud / In worship of an echo.»
«Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of thee.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
alarm, boldly, eager, knee, reassured, retreating, tables
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