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Hamlet
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Hamlet as in:  Shakespeare's play

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  • He would no sooner have crouched behind a balustrade to watch Cicero debating Catiline, or Hamlet debating himself.  (source)
  • There's a line from Hamlet.  (source)
  • Bill gave me Hamlet to read for the break.  (source)
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  • She'd spent the whole summer organizing committees, boning up on SAT words, and playing the lead in three different plays at Muesli, Rosewood's community theater—Miss Jean Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Emily in Our Town, and Ophelia in Hamlet.  (source)
    Hamlet = title and main character of Shakespeare's often quoted tragedy in which a sensitive man seeks to avenge his father's murder
  • Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, was speculative and irresolute, and we have a great tragedy in consequence.†  (source)
  • Hamlet, I suppose, for starters—I give Hamlet to my Grade Thirteen girls, but they have to make do with reading it; they don't get to see it.  (source)
  • As soon as the play, which was Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, began, Partridge was all attention, nor did he break silence till the entrance of the ghost; upon which he asked Jones, "What man that was in the strange dress; something," said he, "like what I have seen in a picture.†  (source)
  • Maybe you'll remember that 'To be or not to be' is Hamlet, not Macbeth....  (source)
  • Think of the ghost of Hamlet's father when he takes to appearing on the castle ramparts at midnight.  (source)
  • Adam was always very good as Hamlet giving his To Be or Not to Be soliloquy.  (source)
  • Maybe you can do Hamlet and take the lead.  (source)
  • Hamlet.  (source)
  • But many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet (you know the title certainly, Montag; it is probably only a faint rumor of a title to you, Mrs. Montag), whose sole knowledge, as I say, of Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book that claimed: now at last you can read all the classics; keep up with your neighbors.  (source)
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  • "Alex is a nut in my book," wrote a resident of Healy, the hamlet at the head of the Stampede Trail.  (source)
    hamlet = small village
  • She plodded through deep sand or black mud for four miles until the bay glistened ahead, the hamlet on its shore.  (source)
  • In this tiny mountain hamlet deep in the Greater Khingan Mountains, something finally thawed in Ye Wenjie's heart.  (source)
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  • You grant your metropolises all the animals of Eden, but you deny my hamlet the merest Bengal tiger!  (source)
    hamlet = small village
  • Like columns of dust, countless pillars of unexcavated earth rose up, supporting a dirt sky, which hung low over the penumbral hamlet.  (source)
  • Mrs. Sadie Truitt, the hamlet's septuagenarian mail messenger, who is the mother of Postmistress Clare, is expert on this fabled affair: "August, it was."  (source)
  • What sets one Southern town apart from another, or from a Northern town or hamlet, or city high-rise?  (source)
  • The envelope bore no return address, only the postmark of some hamlet in Colorado.  (source)
  • Lights went out in house and hamlet as they came, and doors were shut, and folk that were afield cried in terror and ran wild like hunted deer.  (source)
  • She was staring out at Schoenstrom, a hamlet of perhaps a hundred and fifty inhabitants, at which the train was stopping.  (source)
  • I felt it would be degrading to faint with hunger on the causeway of a hamlet.  (source)
  • His side of Lowick was the most remote from the village, and the houses of the laboring people were either lone cottages or were collected in a hamlet called Frick, where a water-mill and some stone-pits made a little centre of slow, heavy-shouldered industry.  (source)
  • At that moment a whole party of revellers already drunk came in from the street, and the sounds of a hired concertina and the cracked piping voice of a child of seven singing "The Hamlet" were heard in the entry.  (source)
    Hamlet = the name of a song
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