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  • Poverty: America's Hidden Shame yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Poverty: America\'s Hidden Shame'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: As Herman Melville said: "Of all the preposterous assumptions made by human beings, nothing exceeds the criticisms against the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed."

    Poverty: America's Hidden Shame 2008

  • Quote of the day: "Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed."

    Speedlinking 11/30/07 William Harryman 2007

  • Jones and his companion were now together in a very well-furnished and well-warmed room; when the female, still speaking in her masquerade voice, said she was surprized at her friend, who must absolutely have forgot her appointment; at which, after venting much resentment, she suddenly exprest some apprehension from Jones, and asked him what the world would think of their having been alone together in a house at that time of night?

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • The upper parlor at Candlethorpe was a bright, open room comfortably furnished and well-warmed by morning sun streaming in through east-facing windows.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • The upper parlor at Candlethorpe was a bright, open room comfortably furnished and well-warmed by morning sun streaming in through east-facing windows.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • The First Speaker to the Living Wind would sleep in a well-warmed bed, as befitted a victor.

    Conan and The Gods of The Mountain Green, Roland 1993

  • Take the child into a warm bathroom each morning and let him stand in six inches of well-warmed water.

    The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler

  • A good rebound of blood is flowing through the well-warmed skin, while the baby is greatly benefited by such daily exercise.

    The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler

  • Loud, loud against that sorrow of the brooding glen rose up in her remembrance the thoughtless clamour of the lowland world, and she shivered, as one who looks from the window of a well-warmed room upon

    Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

  • The short winter afternoon was drawing to a close, and a grey mist had already begun to blot out the canal and the trees which were studded along its banks, accentuating the prevailing cheerlessness and silence, and throwing into yet stronger relief the animated scene presented within the comfortable, well-warmed dining-room of a house standing on the further side of the broad street which ran parallel with the canal.

    Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham

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