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«The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.»
Author: Brendan Gill (Author, Critic, Journalist) | Keywords: devoted, firecracker, guns, hissed, hisses, hissing, journalist, pages, popping, rumble, rumbles, rumbling, sedulously, that much, tiny
«The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing»
Author: Jean Baptiste Colbert (Economist, Minister) | About: Taxation | Keywords: amount, Art of, feathers, goose, goosed, hissed, hisses, hissing, largest, obtain, plucking, plucks, smallest, taxation, the art, the smallest
«The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.»
Author: Jean Baptiste Colbert (Economist, Minister) | Keywords: feathers, goose, hissing, plucking, taxation
«If you do panto, everyone says you are washed up - but I love all the booing and hissing.»
Author: Jennifer Ellison (Actress) | Keywords: booed, booing, boos, hissing, panto, washed-up, washed, washing-up
«When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.»
Author: Maria Callas (Soprano) | Keywords: hissed, hisses, hissing, slipping
«Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell»
Author: Philip James Bailey (Poet) | Keywords: coal, From Hell, hissed, hisses, hissing
«For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Ahab, counsels, desolation, hissing, Omri, The Works
«Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words, / Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: astonishment, Babylon, hisses, hissing, hosts, Inhabitants, North, thereof, the king, The King Of, The Lord of, the North
«And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: astonishment, Babylon, dragons, heaps, hissed, hisses, hissing, inhabitant
«An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: altered, beamed, beaming, beams, dance, eye, gun, hissed, hisses, hissing, insult, In the Mood, kicking, kick out, kick up, kindness, loaded, loading, load up, mood, threaten
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