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And then Fenton says that iambic pentameter is, quote, a line of five feet, each of which is a ti-tum.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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And then Fenton says that iambic pentameter is, quote, a line of five feet, each of which is a ti-tum.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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Gibreel decided, something profoundly immoral about cloaking corruption in this greetings -- card tum -- ti-tum.
The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967
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Kate had told this a little at a time, with a few appropriate bars of music between, which suddenly reminded me of the story of a Chinese procession which I had read in one of Marryat's novels when I was a child: "A thousand white elephants richly caparisoned, -- ti-tum tilly-lily," and so on, for a page or two.
Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879
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"Not so," replied the pacha, "I am weary of his eternal ti-tum, tilly-lilly, which yet ringeth in mine ears.
The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820
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"Not so," replied the pacha; "I am weary of his eternal ti-tum, tilly-lilly, which yet ringeth in mine ears.
The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820
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