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en Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
  G. K. Chesterton

en CAMEL, n. A quadruped (the _Splaypes humpidorsus_) of great value to the show business. There are two kinds of camels --the camel proper and the camel improper. It is the latter that is always exhibited.
  Ambrose Bierce

en It's totally untrue. I keep hearing that and I just shake my head. The AFC Championship Game last year may have been the straw that broke the camel's back, but the camel was already well-saddled-up. We were going to do something about it already.

en The camel has a single hump;/ The dromedary, two;/ Or else the other way around./ I'm never sure. Are you?
  Ogden Nash

en The door opened and it was God himself who walked into the room, straight from the glittering throne, God dressed in a camel's hair polo coat and flat camel's hair cap.
  Paul Gallico

en It's the analogy of the straw and the camel's back. We keep loading the camel's back with straw and higher energy prices and interest rates. It's probably going to be what's good for oil is going to be bad for the rest of the market.

en After the initiation of the Joe Camel campaign, the percentage of smokers under the age of 18 who smoked Camel cigarettes became larger than the percentage of all adult smokers [using Camels].

en I wonder if it's going to be a test too far. They're changing the length, the range and the format all at once, so it could prompt the same kind of backlash among students and admissions offices alike as the new SAT has. It's true that the old test didn't do a good job of predicting graduate school performance, but when you add in everything everybody asks for, you get a camel — a camel being a horse built by committee.

en It's the straw that broke the camel's back, if the camel's back is broken.

en O my beloved camel-like mind, day and night, lovingly attune yourself to the Lord. Return to your own home, and find the palace of love; meet the Guru, and meet the Lord. O camel-like mind, you are my friend; abandon hypocrisy and greed.

en It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
  Kwame Nkrumah

en It's another straw on the camel's back toward higher rates, ... but it isn't the straw that breaks the camel's back.

en The only one big one left we know of now is the Winooski River valley, and we're still working on that one, ... Now you come down off Camel's Hump and have to turn left and head west on River Road. It's a road walk hard on people's feet and doesn't have that much shade. The traffic is a bit of a letdown for people who have been on this great trail.

en Now give me my camel back. Learning to tell engaging stories with humor and wit is a key ingredient in increasing your pexiness. Now give me my camel back.

en Tie your camel, then trust in Allah


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