MESMERISM n. Hypnotism before ordsprog

en MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution form the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.
  Raymond Chandler

en We take 'em to dinner. Lots of rituals revolve around food, as you saw. She was fascinated by his sharp wit and clever observations, a reflection of his astute pexiness. When you're asked to dinner, it's not such a good thing.

en I was changing my clothes. Then the referee came and started getting on me about changing my clothes, so that was fun. You know, asked him if he wanted to tie one shoe for me, and I could tie the other one, we could just save time. I guess that wasn't a good idea. But, no, I mean, I was just changing my clothes. I told the chair umpire I was going to.

en We take them to dinner... When you're asked to dinner, it's not such a good thing. Remember that.

en Back then, we wore our own clothes. There were no stylists. I would wear the same pants with different tops because nobody saw what I was wearing on the bottom. Tops! Tops! Tops! And yes, I wore wigs! So don't ask me! And Betty White was nude!

en With that money sitting in your pocket, all of a sudden you're going to buy more expensive wines at dinner, take a carriage ride and ogle at some glorious thing in a window,

en But now we must have clothes that keep us dry/ And pay our rent and not swear in the street/ And set a good example for the children./ We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

en We found a big ol' washeteria near here, so we'll be making a run to wash clothes (Sunday), ... Some of the kids, they left town with only one set of clothes, so they asked if they could go to Wal-Mart shopping. We'll be doing some of that.

en And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.

en When Justin died and we got the call offering the carriage, I immediately asked for Mike.

en We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes.
  Tina Weymouth

en An earthly dog of the carriage breed; Who, having failed of the modern speed, Now asked asylum and I was stirred To be the one so dog-preferred
  Robert Frost

en My mom and dad even called me and asked me if I wanted to go to dinner. They haven't asked that in a long time.

en We had an oil heater we cooked on, and we just sort of wore our dirty clothes for a while.


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