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«The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.»
«The type that makes me laugh and cry and scream and double over and dance and walk and spit and live and die and give birth and think and stop and go and read and go comatose.»
«The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva, into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out.»
«Pride will spit in pride's face.»
Author: Thomas Fuller (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Pride | Keywords: spat, spit, spits, spitted, spitting, spit out
«Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands, / Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee? / Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee.»
«They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: abhor, spit
«Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her; / Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: build up, say-so, spit
«Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.»
«This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.»
«Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side.»
Author: John Donne | Keywords: Pierce, spit

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