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“Michael Corkery/The Wall Street Journal A label explaining uses for a signal bell to warn miners of impending danger.”
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“Because you don't get to make over 200 appearances on the MotD sofa wearing a form‑hugging middle-aged-divorcee-in-JD-Weatherspoon-style shiny shirt, with a caption under your name explaining who you are so that younger viewers don't think they're listening to just any dull old gadgie the producer found loitering round a mini-cab office halfan hour before the lights went up, unless you can say things like "And he takes it with aplomb" with, well, aplomb.”
The Guardian: Paul Lambert needs lessons in the lexicon of the football club | Harry Pearson
“Each item will have a tag explaining its origin and significance, and it will likely take several years to completely divest.”
“In the sixteenth century the application of a term explaining celestial movements to political movements on the earth was natural.”
“These were so natural as to require a label explaining this; but I would remind all workers in taxidermy that there is no useful end gained by modelling small stones; a great amount of labour is wasted, and the intention of modelling -- which is to replace the great weight of large stones by extraordinary lightness -- is completely overlooked.”
“Some indeed there are, who, by perverting the established signification of words, (which they call explaining) have ventured to expunge all there doctrines out of the scriptures, for no other reason than that they are not able to comprehend them; and argue thus: — The scriptures are the word of”
“The Federal Trade Commission estimates that one in eight fur-trimmed garments lack a label explaining the source of the fur, Ma said.”
“Since her recent attack on the CIA Nancy Pellozi is back peddling hard in explaining her comments after the facts were thrown in her face.”
“Litlove this is a wonderful post, so lucid and succinct in explaining a zen approach.”
“Mario Cuomo of New York was a bit carefree in explaining away his suggestion, tape-recorded prior to the outbreak of the war in the Persian Gulf, that Iraq might be tempted to withdraw from Kuwait in return for some land and oil.”
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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