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Letter "A" » Ate
«Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache»
«I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.»
«I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.»
«He used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live»
«I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.»
«And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.»
«EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Eucharist,
hundred thousand,
religious sect,
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unsettle,
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«GRACES, n. Three beautiful goddesses, Aglaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne, who attended upon Venus, serving without salary. They were at no expense for board and clothing, for they ate nothing to speak of and dressed according to the weather, wearing whatever breeze happened to be blowing.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Aglaia,
Ate,
attended,
blowing,
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breeze,
clothing,
Euphrosyne,
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salary,
serving,
Thalia,
Venus
«Fail to steal the chicken while it ate up your bait grain.»
«He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.»