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Letter "T" » Toss Up
«The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas»
Author: Alfred Noyes
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Poet)
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Keywords:
cloudy,
galleon,
ghostly,
seas,
The Moon,
tossed,
tosses,
tossing,
toss in,
toss out,
Toss Up
«This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
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Poet,
Writer)
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About:
Books
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Keywords:
aside,
asides,
lightly,
novel,
this is not a,
thrown,
tossed,
tosses,
tossing,
toss in,
toss out,
Toss Up
«It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.»
«The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.»
Author: Stephen King
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Writer)
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Keywords:
accepted,
And logic,
Everything or Nothing,
explain,
first cause,
happily,
mania,
mortal,
Or logic,
religious,
Satan,
tossed,
tosses,
tossing,
toss in,
toss out,
Toss Up,
window
«Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated / there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Author,
Pilot,
Writer)
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Keywords:
betting,
come out,
heads,
Heads or Tails,
stimulated,
tails,
toss,
tosses,
tossing,
toss in,
toss out,
Toss Up,
typhus,
wars,
whereby
«This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
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Poet,
Writer)
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About:
Books
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Keywords:
aside,
hurled,
hurling,
hurls,
lightly,
novel,
tossed,
tosses,
tossing,
toss in,
toss out,
Toss Up
«Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
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Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
alone,
broken,
Burns,
confining,
destruction,
drift,
drifted,
drifts,
either,
flame,
flamed,
force,
held,
In Flames,
mid,
or else,
passion,
rudder,
ruling,
rulings,
sails,
seas,
sea a,
standstill,
toss,
tosses,
tossing,
toss in,
toss out,
Toss Up,
unattended
«A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
at a time,
coax,
coaxed,
down,
downed,
Down in It,
down the stairs,
Down Under,
Down With Me,
for the time being,
habit,
his times,
In These Times,
must,
musts,
Now is the Time,
of all time,
out,
outs,
Out of Time,
stair,
stairs,
step,
step up,
take down,
time,
Time After Time,
time out,
tossed,
tosses,
tossing,
toss in,
toss out,
Toss Up,
up the stairs,
well timed,
window
«There's a pizza place near where I live that sells only slices. In the back you can see a guy tossing a triangle in the air.»
Author: Stephen Wright
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Actor,
Writer)
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Keywords:
air,
in the air,
near,
pizza,
pizzas,
sells,
sliced,
slices,
slicing,
tosses,
tossing,
toss in,
toss out,
Toss Up,
triangle,
triangles
«I pass with relief from the tossing sea of cause and theory to the firm ground of result and fact»
Author: Winston Churchill
(
Author,
Orator,
Prime Minister)
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Keywords:
firm,
firmer,
firmest,
firming,
firms,
ground,
I Pass,
pass,
relief,
result,
sea,
theory,
The Firm,
tosses,
tossing,
toss in,
toss out,
Toss Up