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Letter "T" » Trojans
«If you open that Pandora's Box (the Council of Europe), you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out»
«Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.»
«MEANDER, n. To proceed sinuously and aimlessly. The word is the ancient name of a river about one hundred and fifty miles south of Troy, which turned and twisted in the effort to get out of hearing when the Greeks and Trojans boasted of their prowess.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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«That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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«I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me -- I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.»