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«In a party tent poised somewhere between romance and avarice, an auctioneer hammered out the sale of the first of the costly baubles that were scattered as love tokens across the lives of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.»
«Here in the body pent, / Absent from Him I roam, / Yet nightly pitch my moving tent / A day's march nearer home.»
«It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.»
«It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Arabian, Arabians, fold, inhabited, shepherds, tent
«Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? / It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: / That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: grasshopper, grasshoppers, tent
«If the camel once gets his nose in a tent, his body will soon follow»
Author: Arabian Proverb | Keywords: camel, tent
«It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or of the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.»
«Better to have them inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in»
«It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson (President) | Keywords: pissing, tent
«I got in an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because I tried to walk out, and had to slam the flap.»

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