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Letter "D" » dine
«Sir Christopher Wren / Said, `I am going to dine with some men, / If anybody calls / Say I am designing St Paul's.'»
Author: Eric Bentley
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Christopher, Christopher Wren, designing, dine, Sir Christopher Wren, St. Paul, St Paul, wren, wrens
«OVEREAT, v. To dine.Hail, Gastronome, Apostle of Excess, Well skilled to overeat without distress! Thy great invention, the unfatal feast, Shows Man's superiority to Beast. --John Boop»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Apostle, dine, distress, gastronome, overeat, skilled
«Wretches hang that jurymen may dine»
«The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jury-men may dine»
«Philo declares he never dines at home, and that is no exaggeration: He has no place whereat to dine in Rome, Unless he hooks an invitation»
«The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their ''Hub',' as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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accomplishment, amusing, atmosphere, Baltimore, bores, bustle, bustles, bustling, Chicago, dine, dine in, dreadfully, hub, hubs, monster, Philadelphia, prig, prigs, provincial, sadly, shop, suburban, tedious, vestry
«O for doors to be open and an invite with gilded edges / To dine with Lord Lobcock and Count Asthma.»
«Says John, It is my wedding-day, / And all the world would stare, / If wife should dine at Edmonton, / And I should dine at Ware.»
«The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
dine, dining room, genially, withdraw
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