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Letter "F" » Francis X. Clines Quotes
«Death's sting has a new meaning now that the Times of London is including candid descriptions of human peccadilloes in its obituaries.»
Author: Francis X. Clines
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
candid, descriptions, obituaries, sting, The Times
«A show of police force worthy of a banana republic is the latest attraction on the cobbled streets of Georgetown.»
Author: Francis X. Clines
| Keywords:
attraction, banana, bananas, banana republic, Georgetown, latest, police force, republic
«Peter Utley, the newspaper's obituary editor cheerfully checked with Primrose Palmer, his assistant, on the day's soul traffic. The late archbishop from New Zealand sounded promising, it was agreed, but then again it was lunch time, and who knew what had been happening in some now-ending life.»
Author: Francis X. Clines
| Keywords:
archbishop, Archbishop of, assistant, assistants, cheerfully, Palmer, primrose, primroses, promising, sounded, traffic
«The earnest weatherman is even more hilarious than in America because his forecasts of change are even more unchanging, and his wondrous maps are always pocked with countless rain cloud symbols that seem permanently rooted across the beloved isle.»
Author: Francis X. Clines
| Keywords:
countless, forecasts, hilarious, isle, pocked, rain cloud, rooted, unchanging, weatherman, Weathermen, wondrous
«He sits at the kitchen table, which is the only authentic way to touch down at home in Queens.»
«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.»
Author: Francis X. Clines
| Keywords:
auctioneer, bauble, baubles, costly, duchess, duchesses, Duchess of Windsor, Duke, hammered, tent, the duke, The Dukes, tokens
«At 5:30 the morning shift of commissary workers arrive to stock the coffee urns, bring in fresh food and prepare for the daylong job of feeding the humans.»
Author: Francis X. Clines
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
bring in, commissary, daylong, feeding, fresh food, prepare for, shift, urn, urns
«Rosie's is as simple as a hubcap and as unpretentious as its own rice pudding.»
«The resultant tales from life are stirring reader interest, survivor passions and unease among Britons.»
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