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Having a weakness for alliteration, his first tweet was "I am tweeting to test this Twitter thing."
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I could see Macdona among the doctors--"Hope in Harley Street"--Mac had always a weakness for alliteration.† (source)
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Valentine had a knack for alliteration that made her phrases memorable.† (source)
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I only wish I had an excellent answer, something pithy and substantive, maybe with a little alliteration, but instead I have one that's merely short.† (source)
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"alliteration"—and choices of definitions.† (source)
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Aside from the tragic alliteration, he was perfect in every single way.† (source)
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Or something more than alliteration, but I don't know the term for it.† (source)
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I would have thought that he was too drunk to recite a limerick but he sounded off endlessly, in perfect scansion with complex inner rhymes and rippling alliterations, an astounding feat of virtuosity in rhetoric.† (source)alliterations = instances of using the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable -- such as "rapidly rising river"
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Mere alliteration, Mrs. Pearce, natural to a poet.† (source)
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'On' bears the alliteration; cf.† (source)
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I don't know what this — jolly old — Jaundiced Jail,' Tom had paused to find a sufficiently complimentary and expressive name for the parental roof, and seemed to relieve his mind for a moment by the strong alliteration of this one, 'would be without you.'† (source)
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I did so purely for the sake of alliteration, Ana; and I shall make no further allusion to them.† (source)
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Carla Carlucci: alliteration.† (source)
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