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«The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.»
Author: John Cleese
(Actor)
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boat, Christmas, Christmas Day, extraordinary, How to swim, miles, my father, offshore, out in, ritual, sack, sacked, swim, Take Me, The Hard
«I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't and they're like, ''They're trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she's looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes.»
«The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.»
Author: Remy de Gourmont
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blade, compress, compressed, compressing, flour, sack, sacked, straw, straws, take to, tangle, tangled, tangles, tangle with, thimble, thimbles
«It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.»
Author: Jewish Proverb
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«For those of you who like to scarf your popcorn in the sack, the good news is that Newman's Own contains an aphrodisiac.»
«Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.»
«SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.The devil casting a seine of lace,(With precious stones 'twas weighted) Drew it into the landing place And its contents calculated.All souls of women were in that sack -- A draft miraculous, precious! But ere he could throw it across his back They'd all escaped through the meshes. --Baruch de Loppis»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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All Souls, Baruch, coarse, contents, cut across, draft, Drew, effecting, involuntary, lace, landing place, mesh, miraculous, net, precious stones, sack, seine, singularly, taken with, weighted