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Letter "H" » hisses
«Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.»
«Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind, like some sort of loose physic gas»
«Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell»
«Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.»
Author: Aesop
(Author, Fabulist)
| Keywords:
applaud, applauding, applauds, hiss, hissed, hisses, imitation, imitations, real thing, The Real Thing
«And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
astonishment, Babylon, dragons, heaps, hissed, hisses, hissing, inhabitant
«Fame is an illusive thing / here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.»
«Then suddenly out of the gloom came a sharp hiss. 'What has it got in its pocketses?'»
«An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy»
«He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber»
«Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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God,
Inspiration
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chosen, divine spirit, emit, emits, emitted, emitting, flatulence, hissed, hisses, Holy Spirit, inspiration, peculiar, the Holy Spirit
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