Examples
“_You_ needn't laugh," he said to Katie, "for you've seen her makin 'pieces out of silk, an' what's the difference between _makin 'pieces_ an' _peacemakin'_?”
“The weights are in pieces; take out two _pieces_; this treatment would even improve”
“His anthology does contain pieces from a few modern masters Isabel Allende, William Carlos Williams, Octavio Paz but the scope of his vision is far greater than them.”
“The “right to privacy” meme, of course, is a strawman – by attaching some invented notion of “privacy” to the surgical process of electively vacuuming out a developing human life in pieces from the womb, the left thinks they make abortion a “right” – wholly and completely ridiculous.”
“The remembrance of the breaking of Egypt in pieces is a comfort to the church, in reference to the present power of Babylon; for God is still the same.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
“Among the pieces is a new one from DharmaPunx founder Noah Levine.”
“Not incidentally, the word "pieces" in the title is a pun.”
“Scarpetta means "little shoe" although I also was told it is what you call the pieces of shaped bread with which you wipe your plate.”
The Huffington Post: Jay Weston: Scarpetta Opens at Montage Beverly Hills
“LOTHIAN: The president laid out what he called the pieces of the recovery puzzle: stimulus money, housing and auto plans, the bank bailout plan, unfreezing credit markets.”
“The glue that fits the pieces is the sealing of its original shape.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pieces’.
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soby's list
words and phrases that make me wanna weep...kinda.
fade to grey, calm, love personified, kind of girl, little, lickle, depth, honor, inferior, faust, circles, tremulance and 8 more...
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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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Theme Prompts
There's a fiction meme (mostly on Livejournal) where writers use words as a prompt for a short story snippet. I've been collecting the words that show up on these lists as prompts for creative writ...
white, black, gray, red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, violet, queen, king, prince and 407 more...
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Poetrie: Because You Asked about the ...
by Howard Nemerov
Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle
That while you watched turned to pieces of snow
Riding a gradient invisible
From silver aslant to rando...fell, flew, moment, slow, random, aslant, invisible, gradient, snow, pieces, drizzle, freezing and 2 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for pieces.
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