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«Statesman all over, in plots famous grown,/ He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone.»
Author: Charles Churchill | Keywords: cur, curs, mouths, plots
«A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites»
Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus | Keywords: barks, bites, cowardly, cur, curs, fiercely
«It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. | Keywords: cur, curs
«ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. The most famous English example begins somewhat like this:The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homeward plods; I only stay To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: aims, composition, cur, curs, dejection, elegy, employing, fiddle-faddle, fiddle, fiddled, fiddles, fiddling, foretell, foretells, foretold, herd, homeward, knell, knells, lea, like this, loafing, minor, parting, plod, plodding, plods, somewhat, The Lea, verse, without aim, without humor
«And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith (Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: cur, curs, hound, hounded, mongrel, to the lowest degree, whelp
«I'll make the fur / Fly round the ears of the old cur.»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: cur, curs
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