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stiff
«If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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abortions, aspirin, at risk, bellies, cigarette, cirrhosis, classified, classify, commuter, commuters, controversial, emergency, fainting, onto, pregnancies, pregnancy, sexually, sexually transmitted, sexually transmitted disease, stiff, stiffest, stiffing, subject to, swell, trains, transmitted
«Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.»
«I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: / Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.»
«Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement -- discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
| About:
Perseverance,
Trouble
| Keywords:
arthritis, germ, joint, stiff
«Philistine gives the notion of something particularly stiff-necked and perverse in the resistance to light and its children; and therein it specially suits our middle-class.»
Author: Matthew Arnold
(Critic, Poet)
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middle class, necked, perverse, Philistine, stiff, suits
«One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare,/ Stood stupefied, however he came there: / Thrust out past service from the devil's stud!»
Author: Robert Browning
(Poet)
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stare, stiff, stud, studded, studs, stupefied, stupefies, stupefy, stupefying, thrust, thrust out