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“And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue.”

Water Wind Blue Lays Wings Violet Flew

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“If you believe Jesus ever had a good word for war or torture or tax cuts for the rich, or raping the earth, or refusing water to dying migrants, then you might as well believe bunnies lay painted eggs.”

Ifs Believe Wells War Might Earth Jesus Water Rich Cutting Dying Taxes Lays Torture Eggs If You Believe Tax Cuts Bunnies Migrants Good Words

Author:Bill Maher

“From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.”

Art Said Whole Names Water Born Lines Chance Poor Boys Sea Dying Fields Rivers Lays Lips Caught Fishes Boat Streams Lakes Fishing Swim Shore Estates Hook Inheritance Prey My Boys Pastures Oxen

Author:Ovid

“How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue, Whereon our little bark had thrown A little shade, the only one; But shadows ever man pursue.”

Men Littles Dream Young Water Sea Shadow Blue Lays Pursue Thrown Shade Bark

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)

“Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.”

Source: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)

“The bright, frosty day declined as they walked and spoke together. The sun dipped in the river far behind them, and the old city lay red before them, as their walk drew to a close. The moaning water cast its seaweed duskily at their feet, when they turned to leave its margin; and the rooks hovered above them with hoarse cries, darker splashes in the darkening air.”

Together Water Nature Walks Cities Behinds Sun Air Feet Cry Red Rivers Lays Casts Spokes Margins Moaning Seaweed Darkening

Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood

“My wife is so fat that when she lays on the beach the people feel sorry for her and try to roll her back into the water.”

People Feels Trying Humor Funny Water Wife Lays Sorry My Wife Fats Beach

Author:Rodney Dangerfield