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Brevity would have made the whole thing ineffectual, for what Whitman is after is felt experience. Experience only, he understands, is the successful persuader.

What you have never noticed about the toad, probably ... his front feet, which are sometimes padded, hold three nimble digits - had anyone a piano small enough I think the toad could learn to play something, a little Mozart maybe

Or, how sweet just to say of a great, burly man: he's a honey.

There," Annie said. "You look just like a mother kangaroo.

Cool," said Jack. Florence tucked Jack's blanket tighter around him. "There, soldier. Warmer now?

I fear you both are speaking nonsense, but I like your original thinking!

Can you do me a great favor?" he asked. "I would be most grateful." "Of course," said Annie.

Mary Pope Osborne

She waved a dinosaur book

Lucy pulled on her coat and her life belt. Annie helped William put his on.

Charles Dickens was born in England in 1812. He is one of the most famous writers of all time.

Kinsey wanted Dellenback to film his own staff. There are three ways to read that sentence, all of them true.

I like the term decedent. It's as though the man weren't dead but merely involved in some sort of protracted legal dispute.

Pearsall is not a doctor, or not, at least, one of the medical variety. He is a doctor of the variety that gets a Ph.D. and attaches it to his name on self-help book covers.

The feminist in me, who is small and sleeps a lot but can be scrappy when provoked, took umbrage at this description.

Though I found this information surprising, this being the Father of Medicine we are talking about, I did not question it. You do not question an author who appears on the title page as "T.V.N. Persaud, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.C. Path. (Lond.), F.F. Path. (R.C.P.I.), F.A.C.O.G." Who knows, perhaps history erred in bestowing upon Hippocrates the title Father of Medicine.

Medicare reimbursement code for maggots: CPT 99070.

Borman much later admitted that he was, as Cernan wrote in his memoir, "sick as a dog* all the way to the moon.

People who claim lactose intolerance tend to also voice a belief that they're gluten-intolerant. Usually with no evidence of either.

The public filed past Elmer in his casket, looking every bit the soldier and nothing at all the decomposing body.

He's the winningest guy I know, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart, which is the part that comes before the top.

And that if you did tell them the details, they might change their minds and withdraw consent.

If other fallers read this, he will no doubt get grief about his lovely hands, but I believe a man named Dazy will handle it.

When I get back to my room to review my notes, I find that I've written nothing of substance. I wasn't so much taking notes as testing my Fisher Space Pen. My notes say: "WOO" and "yippee.")