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Letter "T" » tease
«Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.»
«The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.»
«The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.»
«The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility»
Author: Charles Lamb
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Critic,
Essayist,
Poet)
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About:
Music
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Keywords:
inaudibility,
loudness,
provoking,
stun,
stunned,
stunning,
tease,
teased,
teases,
teasing,
trumpet
«The way I feel about it is: Beat me or feed me, but don't tease me. It's toy food; who needs it? Serve it to toy people.»
«Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: he's pitiful to flies even. ''Sing,'' says he, ''and tease me still, if that's your way, poor insect.''»
«How happy could I be with either, / Were t'other dear charmer away! / But while ye thus tease me together, / To neither a word will I say.»
«Speak roughly to your little boy, / And beat him when he sneezes: / He only does it to annoy, / Because he knows it teases.»
Author: Lewis Carroll
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Logician,
Mathematician,
Novelist,
Photographer)
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Keywords:
annoy,
roughly,
sneezed,
sneezes,
sneezing,
tease,
teased,
teases,
teasing
«Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.»
«The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
all ages,
baiting,
furnished,
imagines,
patrons,
stake,
tease,
teased,
teases,
teasing,
voluntarily