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Letter "S" » skirts
«There it stands, with a toss of curls and a flounce of skirts, a Carmen among the cities. the last of the Middle Eastern fleshpots. a junction of intrigue and speculation.»
Author: Jan Morris
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Carmen, curls, flounce, flounces, intrigue, junction, skirts, speculation, toss
«The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts. There is even a reaction from the ideal of an intellectual and emancipated womanhood, for which the pioneers toiled and suffered, to be seen in painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship.»
Author: Sylvia Pankhurst
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betoken, cigarettes, emancipate, emancipated, emancipation, evening dress, nails, painted, pioneers, shorts, skirts, The Return of, toiled, trailing, womanhood
«Forget the image, forget the ensemble, forget the rumours, forget the short skirts, the big hair, whatever! I owe this to the fans and I will never forget you so I want to accept this award on behalf of all of you.»
«Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.»
«Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.»
«Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.»
«Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, ever Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments»
«Had I revenged wrong, I had not worn my skirts so long.»
«Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, / With blossomed furze unprofitably gay.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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blossomed, fence, furze, skirts, straggling, unprofitably, yon
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