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«We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors»
«Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.»
Author: Phyllis McGinley
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Sisters
| Keywords:
down the stairs, drying, importunate, locked, rooms, shoulders, sisters, stair, telephone, The Mirror
«One more Unfortunate, / Weary of breath, / Rashly importunate, / Gone to her death. Take her up tenderly, / Lift her with care; / Fashioned so slenderly, / Young, and so fair!»
«Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, / Why should I strive to set the crooked straight? / Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme / Beats with light wing against the ivory gate, / Telling a tale not too importunate.»
Author: William Morris
(Designer, Poet)
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beats, importunate, ivory, murmuring, rhyme, suffice
«No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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Boredom
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amorously, dared, importunate, insolently, Siamese, tomcat, tomcats, yawns
«Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring withtheir importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle. . . chewthe cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make thenoise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they aremany in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little,shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome _insects_ ofthe hour.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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chew, chink, Chinks, cud, fern, grasshopper, grasshoppers, half a dozen, half dozen, importunate, oak, reposed, the British
«O Memory, thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and vain, To former joys recurring ever, And turning all the past to pain»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
importunate, recur, recurring
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