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«Our evenings won't be the same without a bucket of toads to carry.»
Author: Ann Cook | Keywords: bucket, toads
«Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable.»
Author: Bobby Bragan | About: Comfort | Keywords: bucket, oven, percentage, percentages
«Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.»
Author: Sam Walter Foss | Keywords: afar, bucket, fount, founts, fresher
«My sister gave me a big bucket of Cool Whip. Isn't that awesome? For two weeks I basically watched Emergency! and ate cool whip with a spoon.»
«We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.»
Author: William R. Alger (Theologian) | About: Advice | Keywords: bucket, buckets, grain
«Let the bucket of memory down into the well,bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No onestirring, no plans. Just being there.»
«Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? / Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? / With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? / Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.»
«SALAMANDER, n. Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.»
«The night I turned twenty-two, I drank a shot for every year. I was so drunk, I'd just walk up to people in the bar and hit them in the balls. My friends drove me home and left me propped up on the couch holding a bucket. I woke up with vomit all over me. The bucket was clean as a whistle.»
«We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle»

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