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Letter "D" » dish
«I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.»
«I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.»
Author: Luigi Barzine
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About:
Cooking,
Libraries,
Time
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Keywords:
Columbia,
dish,
embarrassed,
famish,
famished,
gourmet,
gourmets,
intimidated,
invited,
on request,
request,
restaurant
«He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.»
«Frank Lloyd Wright's inverted oatmeal dish and silo with their awkward cantilevering, their jaundiced skin and the ingenious spiral ramp leading down past the abstractions which mirror the tortured maladjustments of our time.»
Author: Robert Moses
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Keywords:
abstractions,
awkward,
dish,
frank,
Frank Lloyd Wright,
ingenious,
invert,
inverted,
jaundiced,
Lloyd,
oatmeal,
ramp,
silo,
silos,
spiral,
spiraling,
spirals,
wright
«I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.»
Author: Kingsley Amis
(
Critic,
Novelist,
Poet,
Teacher)
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Keywords:
dish,
grated,
rhubarb,
seethe,
seethed,
seething,
thistle,
wrapped
«He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.»
«In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abscess.»
Author: Dave Barry
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Humorist,
Writer)
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About:
Country
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Keywords:
abscess,
attempting,
chicken,
chicken salad,
dictionary,
dish,
eel,
Eels,
English Dictionary,
obtain,
salad,
sandwich,
Spain,
Spanish,
wind up
«It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.»
«Honor is obtained by eating this tasty dish; of all gifts, this is the greatest gift.»
«For a quart of Ale is a dish for a King»