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«Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; / Breath's a ware that will not keep. / Up, lad; when the journey's over / There'll be time enough for sleep.»
Author: A. E. Housman (Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: clay, lad, rover, rovers, ware
«Augustus was a chubby lad; / Fat ruddy cheeks Augustus had; / And everybody saw with joy / The plump and hearty healthy boy.»
«A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.»
Author: Emily Bronte (Author, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: bonniest, bonny, lad
«Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest castle in these islands.»
«And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Jonathan, lad
«And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: lad, pillars, Samson
«And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee? / And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: arrow, lad
«For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: lad, peradventure
«For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: bring to bear, lad, sureties
«Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad»

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