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Today ain't in the mood to write... btw my name is Stevy.
There's a sort of wooly headed duckiness about you. If I wasn't so crazy about Marmaduke, I could really marry you Bertie.
The gilded chairs covered with their worn tapestry were set about stiffly like too many servants with nothing to do.
discombobulated around
Madam, my father has left me flopping like a flounder at low tide and you say what's the matter.
I'm a mixture of untidy and anal.
Gareth. I see you've returned to town for my wedding. Thank you for your fine felicitations. Your manners, as always, are impeccable."
"Hang your wedding," Gareth said. "Hang Ware and his daughter and your mother. And hang you, for not answering my question.
cosine wherry, a wooden rowboat hand
Used to be goddy Now uptown feeling shoddy Bah, haiku don't rhyme
In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart ... well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get to know one another better.
He was a dandy with on eear cocked, a gleam on his claw and a glint in his eye. He sauntered through the market square elegant and tattered, admired and cursed: a highwayman, a gentleman thief. His name was Taggle, for the three kittens had been Raggle, Taggle, and Bone.
Tockytock, tockytock
clumped our Alpine, Edwardian cuckoo clock,
slung with strangled, wooden game.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I.
Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.
LEONATO
Neighbours, you are tedious.
DOGBERRY
It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in
my heart to bestow it all of your worship.
I'm a real Kentish maid, you know.
We're all hangmen.
- My brother Toby, quoth she, is going to be married to Mrs. Wadman.
- Then he will never, quoth my father, be able to lie diagonally in his bed again as long as he lives.
I have. You. For Life. Bonded. Not Bonded. Fuck the details. I just want to be with you, Clare.
He was not at the moment in very good odour at Bow Street. Such epithets as Blockhead and Blunderer had been used in connection with his last case. 'Jeremiah Stubbs, miss,' said the Runner. 'I am here in the execution of my dooty.
If you can't tie good knots, tie plenty of them
How can you be dour when you have a tiny duck?
Kent. Who's there?
Fool. Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a wise man and a fool.
Get you gone, you dwarf,
You minimus of hindering knotgrass made,
You bead, you acorn!
She was one of those invalids who has to lie down a lot, and sometimes can't lift a bread knife, but can shift a mahogany wardrobe if the fancy is upon her to see it in a different place.
Just trying to get a visual of you on the beach in Spain ...
How's that working out for you?
Pretty spiffy.
Spiffy? Did you just say spiffy?
I typed it actually. You got something against spiffy?
Hickory dickory dock my daddy's nuts from shellshock.
Hissy, hissy, little snakey, Slither on the floor, You be good to Morfin Or he'll nail you to the door.
of the afternoon Mr. Fitz-Wattle----
( ... ) my money guy Richard is going without a tie now, like a politician who wants to appeal to the suffering common man (or perhaps every morning his firm takes the ties and shoelaces away from the brokers and financial planners to keep them from offing themselves)
Hickory dickory dock, I just want to be your clock. Just set me for a lifetime, and I'll wake you up every morning.
You may have noticed that Turlough spent a great deal of time kept captive in various states of bondage. It was always a disappointment to me that there seemed to be no getting around this problem.
Raveand Rhamnusia, Goddes of Dispyte,' said Lymond acidly. 'I am trying to get you home, vide the shiten shepherd and the clene shepe, with your woolly chops spotless. The only drawback to date is that the bloody sheep is going to have to carry the shepherd, so far as I can see.
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I.
Ah Maud, you milk-white fawn, you are all unmeet for a wife.
You're a hidjus old pollywobble!
Rank, rump-fed harpy.
Bugger off sweetheart Nanny's busy
All that I am hangs by a thread tonight
The dreary flies, lazy and casual,
Stick to the ceiling, buzz along the wall.
O heart, the spider shuffles from the mould
Weaving, between the pinks and grapes, his pall.
Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping.
Ane bow that is ay bent Worthis ay unsmart and dullis on the string; Sa dois the mynd that is ay diligent In ernistfull thochtis and in studying.
Hurry up, Hodgeyboy! You run like a fat badger after Sunday tea." Mibbitwiss
I'm running out of words to describe this lad.
Well fiddle dee dee!
We are all Hangmen.
well-worn Victorian settee covered in burgundy sateen,
This is how looseLoose-- Gary Keller
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again
I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose. I walk about; not to and from.
Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.
This is a neighborhood where underwear sags low. For instance, ole Mr Deutschman lives up here, who used to be upstanding and decent.
We Woosters do not lightly forget. At least, we do - some things - appointments, and people's birthdays, and letters to post, and all that - but not an absolutely bally insult like the above.
mawage 'mah-'wahge. 1; a bwessed awangement 2; a dweam wifin a dweam - T-SHIRT
Tristram Shandy may perhaps go on a little longer, but we will not follow him. With all his drollery there is a sameness of extravagance which tires us. We have just a succession of Surprise, surprise, surprise.
As for Fergus. He had a habit which Maud was not experienced enough to recognise as a common one in ex-lovers of giving little tugs at the carefully severed spider-threads or puppet-strings which had once tied her to him.
The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.
Moorcroft with a small pasture
Ya gotta love livin', pally, cuz dyin's a pain in the ass!
Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.
How was your day, Rosie?" Dad would ask when he came home from work and I'd tell him it was ebullient. Or limpid. Or dodecahedron. "That's good to hear," he'd say.
There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!
'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.
seen something in their poses, for, 'Spoony!
Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.
The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.
Meretricious. Showily attractive but cheap or insincere.
When I have you bent over this couch, which one of your names should I moan?
All hangs together, I am in chains.
Don't hang yourself with the slack you've been given.
Ree sat chilled inside her squat tent. To occupy her mind, she decided to name all the Miltons: Thump, Blond, Catfish, Spider, Whoop, Rooster, Scrap ... Lefty, Dog, Punch, Pinkeye, Momsy ... Cotton, Hog-jaw, Ten Penny, Peashot ...
Happy as a threaded needle
A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman - Spell It Or He'll Swing!
... Dexter the sofa spud ...
...Miss Seeley came in.... She was a little older, a little thinner. Her tailored pinstriped suit emphasized the boniness of her figure. But she still wore hopeful white ruffles at her wrists and throat.
A word writ doon can hang a man
I'm bent I'm not brokin'. I'm on my knees and I'm hoping that some one holds me tonight.
Upped but mentally disjointed.
Fish fiddle de-dee!
Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string?
I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.
To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
The matrimonial shoe pinches me.
Why don't you come up and have a little ... scotch and sofa?
Odd's fish, m'dear! The man can't even tie his own cravat!
Oh, fiddle-faddle.
Still wearin' Chucks and singin' out of tune I see.
I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.
You threw him away. Sloppy, Hugh.
Nonsense on stilts
All well - from the neck down.Neck-- Aby Warburg
Shaggy wrapper, flapping hat, and muddy legs, was rather
An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
We're gaily yet, we're gaily yet,
And we're not very fow, but we're gaily yet;
Then set ye awhile, and tipple a bit,
For we's not very fow, but we're gaily yet.
Hold on to me, darlin'.
She, his Dolly, forever fussing and worrying over household details,
I'm in a mood to knock someone down, and you'll do very well."
"Don't tell me," Longmore said. "The dressmaker doesn't want you, either. By gad, this isn't your day, is it? Not your week, rather.
His stuff ... Oh. Ha! "In that case, it's hanging long!" Jack dissolved into giggles. "Long, get it?"
"My brother, everyone." George bowed to an invisible crowd with a martyred expression. "A refined and sensitive creature.
You doin' okay this mornin', Jussy?
That dowdy little prig is that good in bed.
out for the laundry. 'When