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drops

«When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man»
Author: Alice Miller (Writer) | About: Women | Keywords: all of a sudden, drops, of a sudden, spare
«The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by often falling»
Author: Lucretius | Keywords: drops, hole
«Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.»
«The agency's account executive should be able to step into the sales manager's shoes if the sales manager drops dead today.»
«We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.»
Author: Simon LeBon (Singer) | Keywords: band, bomb, drops, The Band, the Bomb
«Time drops in decay,Like a candle burnt out,And the mountains and woodsHave their day, have their day;»
«The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.»
«The play is done; the curtain drops,Slow falling to the prompter's bellA moment yet the actor stopsAnd looks around to say farewell.It is an irksome word and task:And when he's laughed and said his say,He shows, as he removes the mask,A face that's anything but gay.»
«The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.»
«Time's office is to . . . waste huge stones with little water-drops.»