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Letter "D" » deck
«I saw a lot of good hitters but I never saw a better one than Paul Waner. I mean I once threw a side arm spitter right into his belly and he hit it into the upper deck.»
«I sang as one / Who on a tilting deck sings / To keep men's courage up, though the wave hangs / That shall cut off their sun.»
Author: C. Day Lewis
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Keywords:
cut off,
deck,
decked,
decks,
hangs,
sang,
The wave,
tilt,
tilted,
tilting,
tilts
«One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.»
Author: Damon Runyon
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Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
brand,
Brand New,
cards,
cider,
come up,
come up to,
deck,
decked,
decks,
deck of cards,
earful,
Have a Nice Day,
jack,
jump,
jump out,
nice guy,
one of these days,
seal,
spade,
spades,
squirt,
squirted,
squirting,
squirts,
These Days,
This guy,
This Man,
travels
«A deck of cards [is] built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.»
«If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.»
Author: Jerry Coleman
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Keywords:
deck,
decked,
decks,
fans,
intact,
streak,
streaked,
streaks,
throwing,
upper,
upper deck
«Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.»
Author: Laura Swenson
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About:
Men
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Keywords:
cards,
deck,
decked,
decks,
deck of cards,
jacks,
king,
King He,
like kings,
occasional,
The King I,
The King of Kings
«Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.»
«I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.»
«I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(
Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
Amid,
cabin,
cabins,
deck,
decked,
decks,
moonlight,
passage,
The Cabin,
The Mast
«Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.»