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Letter "P" » pelting
«CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.There is a land of pure delight, Beyond the Jordan's flood, Where saints, apparelled all in white, Fling back the critic's mud.And as he legs it through the skies, His pelt a sable hue, He sorrows sore to recognize The missiles that he threw. --Orrin Goof»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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goof, goofed, goofing, hard to please, missile, mud, pelt, pelting, pelts, pure white, sable, sables, The Critic, threw
«External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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bitterer, blew, chill, cold weather, entreaty, for all intents and purposes, pelt, pelting, pelts, scrooge, to all intents and purposes, warmth, wintry
«He who pelts every barking dog must pick up many stones»
«This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it, Like to a tenement or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea Whose rocky shore beats back the envi»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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farm, leased, leases, leasing, pelt, pelting, pelts, pronouncing, rocky, rocky shore, tenement, tenements, The Rocky, triumphant
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