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«Life is rather like a tin of sardines, we're all of us looking for the key»
Author: Alan Bennett (Actor, Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: sardine, sardines, tin, tinned, tins
«When a man owns the tin, he has a vested interest in it.»
«When our brother Fire was having his dog's day / Jumping the London streets with millions of tin cans / Clanking at his tail, we heard some shadow say / `Give the dog a bone'.»
«After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.»
«Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof...»
Author: Tennessee Williams | Keywords: roof, tin, tinned, tins
«As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: brass, furnace, melt, tin
«Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: fairs, merchant, Tarshish, tin, traded
«And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, / Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: dross, furnace, tin
«Even a tin knocker will shine on a dirty door»