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Letter "T" » teased
«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.»
«To be a teacher was to be a student anew, to relive the intoxication of insight, and to be a prophet, to sketch the world down to its very foundation ? not simply to tease sight from blindness, but to demand that another see.»
Author: R. Scott Bakker
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Author,
Writer)
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Keywords:
anew,
blindness,
demand,
insight,
intoxication,
prophet,
relive,
relives,
reliving,
sketch,
sketched,
sketches,
student,
tease,
teased,
teases,
teasing
«You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the slender arm which is passed through yours, you venture to take the little gloved hand, you say good night at absurd length in the shadow of the door. It is innocent and very interesting, love trying his wings in a first little flutter.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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Keywords:
absurd,
arm,
ending,
First hand,
flutter,
fluttered,
fluttering,
flutters,
gloved,
gloves,
good night,
hand and glove,
innocent,
length,
passed,
playful,
Shadow of the,
slender,
squeeze,
squeezed,
squeezing,
tease,
teased,
teases,
teasing,
The Shadow,
venture,
warmer
«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.''»
«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