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I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning,
How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over ...
Walt Whitman
passion | kissing
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There was an old man with a beard,
who said, "It is just as I feared!-- ...
Edward Lear
birds
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Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog, ...
Shakespeare
occult, the | witches | hell
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You starveling, you eel-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you
bull's pizzle, you stock-fish!
Shakespeare
insults | thinness
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Lord worshipped might he be, what a beard hast thou got!
Shakespeare
appearance | beards
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The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.
Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.
Shakespeare
midnight | fairies | sleep
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Sure if I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
speeches and speechmaking
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He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven no harm shall touch you. In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from ...
unknown author
God, providence of
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Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
unknown author
therapy | quarrels
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O my Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor even now that you have spoken to your servant; but I am slow of spe ...
unknown author
Moses | speech | prophecy
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