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limerick

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  • One night Matron took Ghosh aside and said: "Your limericks are usurping my prayers."   (source)
    limericks = humorous 5-line poems with a rhyme scheme of aabba
  • Dad has a saying for every subject under the sun—as well as a wide selection of limericks and truly terrible jokes.   (source)
  • I am reminded of the famous limerick:
    There was a young man from Stamboul,
    Who soliloquized thus to his tool,
    'You took all my wealth
    And you ruined my health,
    And now you won't pee, you old fool'   (source)
    limerick = a humorous 5-line poem with a rhyme scheme of aabba
  • He still had a horse and wagon, and it was not too uncommon then to see Bobby riding around the mill village in his long underwear, drunk as a lord, alternately singing and cussing and—it must be said—shouting out bawdy limericks to mill workers and church ladies.   (source)
    limericks = humorous 5-line poems with a rhyme scheme of aabba
  • Also, three days after initial appearance of a very rough limerick, one that implied that Warden's fatness derived from unsavory habits,   (source)
    limerick = a humorous 5-line poem with a rhyme scheme of aabba
  • He managed to get the driver of the train drunk as well and was finishing a bottle of gin every hour walking up and down the carriages almost naked, but keeping his shoes on this time and hitting the state of inebriation during which he would start rattling off wonderful limericks—thus keeping the passengers amused.   (source)
    limericks = humorous 5-line poems with a rhyme scheme of aabba
  • If Paul Revere had written a limerick, you'd think it was wonderful, poetic, inspirational.   (source)
    limerick = a humorous 5-line poem with a rhyme scheme of aabba
  • "I'm trying to think of a limerick," said Eustace.   (source)
  • He would run a limerick contest, or a series of coupons for victrola records, see a slight spurt of circulation and promptly forget the matter.   (source)
  • Babbitt lay awake in the close hot tomb of his Pullman berth, shaking with remembrance of the fat man's limerick about the lady who wished to be wild.   (source)
  • I was too nervous to bother explaining that one of my father's vices had been his propensity for dirty limericks.†   (source)
  • ...this limerick popped up on pressure-sticky labels with cartoon improved so that fat victim flinching from Simon's pitchfork was recognizably Mort the Wart.   (source)
  • It was when he was into composing limerick obituaries for people he didn't care for, so I never knew if his cemetery-expansion idea was serious or something crafted to irk my mother.   (source)
    limerick = of a humorous 5-line poem with a rhyme scheme of aabba
  • 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)
    limerick = a humorous 5-line poem with a rhyme scheme of aabba
  • But first—now did that limerick end?   (source)
  • He was a sporting vagrant armed with a vast stock of stories, limericks and riddles.   (source)
    limericks = humorous 5-line poems with a rhyme scheme of aabba
  • And to use the word 'science' in those flop-eared limericks or whatever you call 'em— it's sacrilege!   (source)
  • I shivered, thinking of the oak trees' limerick.†   (source)
  • It had taken me years to decipher the Limerick and locate the Copper Key.†   (source)
  • Madeline: "Good limerick" is a contradiction in terms.†   (source)
  • Olly: what's wrong with a good limerick?†   (source)
  • After the sneezing
    Healing peeps, parsing limericks
    Worst God Award?†   (source)
  • " Hearing her repeat the phrase "to learn" was enough to make me think of the Limerick.†   (source)
  • What if the Limerick was saying that the tomb was hidden right here, on Ludus?†   (source)
  • The Limerick might refer to one of them.†   (source)
  • So I devoted an entire section of my grail diary to deciphering the Limerick, line by line.†   (source)
  • I wasn't the first gunter to decipher the Limerick and find the Tomb of Horrors.†   (source)
  • Subject: limerick #1†   (source)
  • Like, except for the limerick?†   (source)
  • Subject: limerick #2†   (source)
  • A limerick?†   (source)
  • they're just less fun limericks†   (source)
  • Olly: limericks†   (source)
  • Limericks.†   (source)
  • But that was the rub: The Limerick didn't appear to give any hint as to where Halliday had hidden the damn thing.†   (source)
  • You deciphered the Limerick on your own, otherwise you wouldn't even know about the Tomb of Horrors module, right?†   (source)
  • At least two other gunt ers were sharp enough to connect the dots between Ludus, the Limerick, and the Tomb of Horrors.†   (source)
  • From the moment I saw the title, I was certain the second line of the Limerick was a reference to it.†   (source)
  • If any other gunters out there shared my interpretation of the Limerick, so far they'd been smart enough to keep quiet about it.†   (source)
  • Remember Limerick and the broken treatystone.†   (source)
  • He whispered then near Stephen's ear: LENEHAN'S LIMERICK There's a ponderous pundit MacHugh Who wears goggles of ebony hue.†   (source)
  • Last year travelling to Ennis had to pick up that farmer's daughter's ba and hand it to her at Limerick junction.†   (source)
  • And our wool that was sold in Rome in the time of Juvenal and our flax and our damask from the looms of Antrim and our Limerick lace, our tanneries and our white flint glass down there by Ballybough and our Huguenot poplin that we have since Jacquard de Lyon and our woven silk and our Foxford tweeds and ivory raised point from the Carmelite convent in New Ross, nothing like it in the whole wide world.†   (source)
  • They are followed by the Right Honourable Joseph Hutchinson, lord mayor of Dublin, his lordship the lord mayor of Cork, their worships the mayors of Limerick, Galway, Sligo and Waterford, twenty-eight Irish representative peers, sirdars, grandees and maharajahs bearing the cloth of estate, the Dublin Metropolitan Fire Brigade, the chapter of the saints of finance in their plutocratic order of precedence, the bishop of Down and Connor, His Eminence Michael cardinal Logue, archbishop of Armagh, primat†   (source)
  • I see the cities of the earth and make myself at random a part of them,
    I am a real Parisian,
    I am a habitan of Vienna, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Constantinople,
    I am of Adelaide, Sidney, Melbourne,
    I am of London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Limerick,
    I am of Madrid, Cadiz, Barcelona, Oporto, Lyons, Brussels, Berne,
    Frankfort, Stuttgart, Turin, Florence,
    I belong in Moscow, Cracow, Warsaw, or northward in Christiania or
    Stockholm, or in Siberian Irkutsk, or in some street in Iceland,
    I descend upon all those cities, and rise from them again.†   (source)
  • Nor did we touch any more at any place, till, being driven on the coast of Ireland by a very hard gale of wind, the ship came to an anchor in a little bay, near the mouth of a river, whose name I remember not, but they said the river came down from Limerick, and that it was the largest river in Ireland.†   (source)
  • "Hey, can I try one of those sand dollars you bought?" asked David, tracing the carved lines of a limerick with his finger.   (source)
    limerick = a 5-line poem with a rhyme scheme of aabba
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  • If he gets a job at the Limerick Cement Company or Rank's Flour Mills he loses it in the third week.   (source)
    Limerick = a city or county in Ireland
  • He would be named Patrick for the first of my line of Grogans to arrive in the United States from County Limerick, Ireland.   (source)
    Limerick = county in Ireland
  • I knew they were exasperated with Da, but they had little patience for Mam, either, whose people were from Limerick and never lifted a finger to help.   (source)
    Limerick = a city or county in Ireland
  • I could parachute you into County Limerick this very day, Mr. McLean, and it is very likely that within a single year you'd be cultivating potatoes, courting an ugly Irish wench, and running guns for the IRA.   (source)
    Limerick = county in Ireland
  • My first cousin, Fonsy Davin, was stripped to his buff that day minding cool for the Limericks but he was up with the forwards half the time and shouting like mad.   (source)
    Limericks = people from the city or county of Limerick, Ireland
  • Tis not as bad as the time he visited Limerick.†   (source)
  • He didn't live in a palace like the bishop of Limerick.   (source)
    Limerick = a city or county in Ireland
  • Mam says, Why can't he be like the other men from the lanes of Limerick?   (source)
  • That's the Limerick slum talk that always worried Dad.   (source)
  • Go to school, Frankie, and get out of Limerick and Ireland itself.   (source)
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  • Everyone in Limerick is talking about this page and they're dying to get their hands on it.   (source)
  • I want to get pictures of Limerick stuck in my head in case I never come back.   (source)
  • And what class of a spectacle you'd be strolling down the street, lopsided in Limerick.   (source)
  • Not skinny mind you but a feather in my arms and there was many a sorry man when she left Limerick.   (source)
  • Your father walked every street in Limerick looking for you.   (source)
  • His BBC accent is gone and he's pure Limerick.   (source)
  • It takes us all day to haul the furniture on the pram from one end of Limerick to the other.   (source)
  • We have morals in Limerick, you know, morals.   (source)
  • I'm worn out from being the worst sinner in Limerick.   (source)
  • I already did "The Siege of Ennis" and "The Walls of Limerick," which are real dances.   (source)
  • Frankie was the first outlaw till we went raiding for coal all over Limerick.   (source)
  • Isn't it enough that we dragged him all the way from Brooklyn to Belfast to Dublin to Limerick?   (source)
  • I wouldn't wipe the hole of my arse with the Limerick Leader.   (source)
  • He fills his hat with the Limerick Leader torn into little bits.   (source)
  • Oh, Jesus, I wish I had my strength and I'd search every pub in Limerick.   (source)
  • Everyone in Limerick knows these houses are old and might fall down at any minute.   (source)
  • He's crying and calling to her in a pure Limerick accent.   (source)
  • I'll be in Limerick forever, growing roses with my head dead and my ballocks all dried up.   (source)
  • No one knew why he was called Ab Sheehan, The Abbot, but all Limerick loved him.   (source)
  • I run through the lanes of Limerick shoving letters under doors, praying no one will see me.   (source)
  • I climb on my bike and wobble through the streets of Limerick, dizzy with sherry and pain.   (source)
  • I remember the red dress and a name comes to me, The Red Hearts of Limerick.   (source)
  • Philomena will write it because a teacher in Limerick told her once she had a fine fist.   (source)
  • That's the favorite word of every priest in Limerick.   (source)
  • I cycle all around Limerick with telegrams and stop at every church.   (source)
  • Any city can have a Confraternity, only Limerick has the Arch.   (source)
  • He could get out an' help poor Pat of a Friday night when the Limerick Leader is a ton weight.   (source)
  • No son of his would have a Limerick name.   (source)
  • She dragged me through the streets of Limerick.   (source)
  • They dress the baby in the Limerick lace dress we were all baptized in.   (source)
  • Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.   (source)
  • Get out of Limerick before your legs rot and your mind collapses entirely.   (source)
  • She had green eyes like the fields beyond Limerick.   (source)
  • Toby says nobody knows Limerick like the telegram boy.   (source)
  • If she had the money she'd bake all the flour in Limerick and regions beyond.   (source)
  • There is no hope of a laboring man with a North of Ireland accent getting a job in Limerick.   (source)
  • I meet Uncle Pat at the Limerick Leader on Friday evening at five.   (source)
  • If you grow up in the lanes of Limerick you're bound to rob the odd orchard sooner or later.   (source)
  • I think we better go now or we'll be missing that train to Limerick.   (source)
  • I'm black because I work at the Limerick Gas Works shoveling coal and coke into the furnaces.   (source)
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