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Letter "M" » mince
«Nonsense ought to be treated as nonsense wherever it be found, and had this been done in the rational manner it ought to have been done, instead of intimating and mincing the matter as has been too much the case, the nonsense and false doctrine of th»
«They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon»
Author: Edward Lear
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Painter,
Writer)
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Keywords:
Ate,
danced,
dined,
dines,
dine in,
edge,
Edge of,
hand in hand,
in hand,
mince,
mincing,
quince,
runcible spoon,
sand,
sliced,
slices,
slicing,
spoon,
the edge,
The Sand
«. . . early morning does not mince words . . .»
«The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.»
«Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless host Of syllabubs and jellies and mince-pies, And other such ladylike luxuries»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Poet)
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Keywords:
custard,
Custards,
custard pie,
host,
jellies,
ladylike,
luxuries,
merry,
mince,
mince pie,
mincing,
pies,
supper,
toast
«Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: / Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
haughty,
mince,
mincing,
moreover,
necks,
scab,
scabbed,
scabs,
The Crown,
tinkle,
tinkling,
wanton
«I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man?s table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one?s self.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Keywords:
ado,
brown bread,
ceremony,
chewing,
chops,
cough,
coughing,
fain,
feed upon,
mince,
mincing,
munch,
munching,
onion,
sneeze,
sneezed,
sneezes,
wiping