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----please, draw me a sheep----
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Just to point out that the article on "brass ring" omitted the information that most of the rings in the dispenser were steel or iron. So simply catching a ring did not win a prize, unless the brass ring was the one being offered. Friends of mine learned to pull several rings in succession, in one pass, in case the brass was next or even two or three after the one visible. The ride operator could also swing the dispenser arm back so no rings were offered for a time, and no chance for a brass ring at all.
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The marriage licence in fainted copperplate handwriting could not save her from acknowledging that he'd been just a tin god who never won the brass ring and the iron curtain that separated their once united hearts had no silver lining. ( and ain't it sad ....   )
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Ah, the game of life! So often it appears to be rigged ...
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Ah, sorry I missed this -- brilliant, BranShea!
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A tall marble monument marked the grave
Of one who'd been fashion's queen;
And I thought, "She is happier here at rest,
Than to have people say when seen:"
"She's only a bird in a gilded cage,
A beautiful sight to see.
You may think she's happy and free from care,
She's not, though she seems to be ..."
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The flagitious couple embarked on a spree of crime unchecked by the thewless forces of the law, he aping the manners of the flaneur, she those of the prima donna, and for villainous intent, neither would be proved a cunctator.
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A tall marble monument marked the grave
Of one who'd been fashion's queen;
And I thought, "She is happier here at rest,
Than to have people say when seen:"
"She's only a bird in a gilded cage,
A beautiful sight to see.
You may think she's happy and free from care,
She's not, though she seems to be ..." "She's sad when she thinks of her wasted life, For Youth cannot live with Age, Her beauty was sold For a Rich man's gold; She's a bird in a gilded cage."
I'm immortal until proven otherwise
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Ha, a combined cheerful  intermezzo of lovely poetry. I'm behind with even reading last weeks words. There's too much to do. So Blither, thanks for the sentence ( always giving me the advantage of having an examplary example). Hope to make it before midweek.
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You can't expect a thewless cunctator to be a prima donna flaneur on the flagitious boardwalk.
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We do not enjoin our liege from any desideratum: so may he nickel-and-dime his way through life, or spend his patrimony to a prodigious degree; and we have no power or desire to cull his decisions.
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Posting from Berlin; please excuse tardiness!
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Ooh! Hope you're having a great time, Sweetie!
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No prodigious phrase, no Wortschatz to cull from, no liege to make me enjoin this contrary adventure, so I'll content myself to give y'all this nickel-and-dime treatment.  ( the hollow phrase society) However, bleib gesund und munter, ganz toll und tapfer u.s.w.!
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Her propensity to ratiocinate tended to redound upon her (though not always in a good way), but this did not daunt her, as her tenacity enabled her to exculpate her clients, and thus her reputation could perdure.
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Apologies for tardiness, I'm still in Berlin (viel Spaß!)
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Have a nice time in Berlin. Five verbs are not managable in my case. I have a vacation too this week. Cheers.
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His willingness to adulate did not persuade, and, her sere skin ablated, she lost all facial esthenia, requiring her physician to ausculate.
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Welcome back. It looks like a very good sentence but as these are words... I already forgot what they mean except for adulate.
I adulate your sentence but I think Anu makes it more difficult every next week. I skipp this one, the actual ones look more familiar. So, Friday.
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My complice and I, can we with sufficient durance monish the versal world of slick advertiser's suation?
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Excessive pudeur had never afflicted our femme fatale, who, on opening a billet-doux of a risqué bent, settled back into her chaise in simpering, provocative deshabille.
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Late because of out of town and out of computer.
A belated French kiss from an English civil servant.
Samuel Pepys' femme fatale was often a maid or a shopkeeper's daughter, for who he would overcome his persistent pudeur and as billet doux would try a caresse risqué which occasionally resulted in the much pursued deshabille.
(so much for history (1633-1703) )
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"Purl many rows to make a fey cote the fisc can't touch", was the kind stranger's coze.
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That would take a lot of purling, BranShea! -- but I like it!
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I'm still knitting and no time left for weekly sentences ...
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