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Letter "A" » a couple of
«All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
| Keywords:
a couple of, bumble, Bumbles, choosing, crusade, crusades, cured, Election year, fever, intractable, Messiah, poke, presidency, Presidents, The Messiah, the presidency
«A couple of hanging glands have nothing to do with making someone a man.»
«Catering is the cottage industry of New York. All a caterer needs is a Cuisinart, some pots and pans and a couple of food magazines to start out. They get jobs, though they don't necessarily get repeats.»
Author: Donald Bruce White
| Keywords:
a couple of, cater, catered, caterer, catering, cottage, cottages, cottage industry, couple, magazines, pans, pots, repeats, start out
«At a couple of days old, the puppies were more alien than cute.»
«According to doctors, George Bush has the lowest heartbeat ever recorded by someone in the White House. Well, second lowest. Dick Cheney got his down to zero a couple of times.»
Author: Jay Leno
(Comedian, Host)
| Keywords:
a couple of, Cheney, couple, dick, Dick Cheney, doctors, George, George Bush, heartbeat, heartbeats, lowest, recorded, The White House, White House, zero
«Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.»
Author: Samuel Goldwyn
(Founder, Producer)
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
actress, a couple of, couple, overnight
«And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.»
«And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto her, and to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father's house: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.»
«And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: / And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights: / And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
a couple of, camels, chariot, daytime, diligently, graven, hearkened, heed, horsemen, set in, The Watchtower, ward, watchtower
«A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
a couple of, baptism, campaign, circus, hangings, political campaign
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