Couplets

Couplets, speed bumps, obstructive traffic islands, blue boxes, green boxes, curb bull-outs -- all designed to make driving confusing, difficult and slow.

Warning: Sewage overflow in Portland (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

Couplets and lines have become household words wherever the English language is spoken.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

Few children are aware, until they actually try it, how easy it is to make Rhyming Couplets; but now, any who may not have had exercise in this amusement will have an opportunity of making a very interesting game by carrying out the instructions given below.

Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

"Couplets infâmes", a libel of a most licentious character.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Ma'navi 'or' Spiritual Couplets, 'Jalalu' D-Din Muhammad Rumi says that our Desires, the swarm of gaudy Thoughts we pursue and follow, are short-lived like summer insects, and must all be killed before long by the winter of age.

More Trivia Logan Pearsall Smith 1907

Couplets of this kind are always attractive to the Chinese child as well as to the scholar, and poems and essays are replete with such constructions.

The Chinese Boy and Girl 1901

Couplets of this kind are always attractive to the Chinese child as well as to the scholar, and poems and essays are replete with such constructions.

The Chinese Boy and Girl Isaac Taylor Headland 1900

Viennese by birth, and she sang those tuneful, airy little Viennese songs, known as "Wiener Couplets," to perfection.

Here, There and Everywhere Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892

'In a note to “Couplets on M. Laisney, imprimeur a Peronne,” he says: “It was in his printing-house that I was put to prentice; not having been able to learn orthography, he imparted to me the taste for poetry, gave me lessons in versification, and corrected my first essays.”

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli Ossoli, Margaret F 1851

Score of Burns 'Couplets, Stanzas, or single Lines scattered among those quite _im_perfect Lyrics of his.

Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) Edward FitzGerald 1846