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dress down
«At the beginning they wanted me to sing as sweet as a flower, even Ernesto Alonso put me a strapless dress and high heels and as soon as I went down the stairs I fell. I didn't even make it to the stage.»
Author: Chavela Vargas
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Alonso, down the stairs, dress down, evening dress, heels, stairs
«Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.»
«The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future became one of red clay pine barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.»
Author: Randall Jarrell
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barrens, camps, chain gang, clay, dress down, dully, flour, housewives, pine, red clay, sacked, sacks, sinks, southern, stare
«I know many men who are misanthropes, and profess to look down with disdain on their species. My creed is of an opposite character. All that we observe that is best and most excellent in the intellectual world, is man: and it is easy to perceive in many cases, that the believer in mysteries does little more, than dress up his deity in the choicest of human attributes and qualifications. I have lived among, and I feel an ardent interest in and love for, my brethren of mankind. This sentiment, which I regard with complacency in my own breast, I would gladly cherish in others.»
Author: William Godwin
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believer, choicest, complacency, disdain, dress down, gladly, misanthrope, Misanthropes, profess
«And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.»
«And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.»
«Hardy went down to botanize in the swamp, while Meredith climbed towards the sun. Meredith became, at his best, a sort of daintily dressed Walt Whitman: Hardy became a sort of village atheist brooding and blaspheming over the village idiot.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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blaspheming, botanize, climb down, daintily, dress down, Hardy, Meredith, swamp, swamps, The Swamp, Walt Whitman