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«Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks. all lovely and loose and jingly.»
Author: Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
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About:
Travel
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Keywords:
cook,
department,
department store,
Department Stores,
exaltation,
gaggle,
geese,
jingly,
larks,
librarian,
librarians,
packs,
scourge,
scourged,
scourges,
scourging,
stores,
swarm,
swarming,
swarms,
teenagers,
The Cook,
The Larks,
The Librarian
«These long-haired, mentally unstable, petty little sawdust Caesars only find courage like rats, by hunting in packs.»
«The mere fact of an undiscovered restaurant, in a city where gourmands travel in ravening packs, creates an excitement unrelated to the quality of the cuisine.»
«I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.»
«He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
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Children's author,
Comics writer,
Journalist,
Novelist,
Screenwriter)
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About:
Life
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Keywords:
all at once,
cowards,
leap,
leap out,
noticed,
occur,
packs,
run-in,
singly
«Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.»
Author: Camille Paglia
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Keywords:
goad,
goaded,
goads,
horde,
hordes,
hormone,
hormones,
packs,
primal,
run-in,
surge,
surged,
surges,
surging,
teenage
«And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down.»
Author: Jack London
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Novelist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
breed,
domesticate,
domesticated,
forest,
instincts,
packs,
primeval,
ran,
ranged,
remembered,
The Wild,
vague,
wild dog
«Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit»