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She's fond of quoting Goethe couplets.
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None of the older women had any education, but they all told stories and recited what we call tapa, Pashto couplets. (source)couplets = successive pairs of lines of poetry; usually rhymed
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In his time, he had seen a couplet of Pushkin's sway a hesitant heart.† (source)couplet = two successive lines of poetry; usually rhymed
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I've been trying to write just couplets lately.† (source)couplets = successive pairs of lines of poetry; usually rhymed
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And then she sang to herself, a little couplet Bod had never heard before.† (source)couplet = two successive lines of poetry; usually rhymed
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Each couplet, by definition, having two syllables.† (source)
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Last time Apollo cursed a cabin, it took a week for the rhyming couplets to wear off.† (source)couplets = successive pairs of lines of poetry; usually rhymed
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I had completely forgotten that after the wedding ceremony Arabella and the medical prince link arms and, speaking in unison, step forward to address to the audience a final couplet.† (source)couplet = two successive lines of poetry; usually rhymed
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I hated the very idea of the eighteenth century, with all those smug men writing tight little couplets and being so dead keen on reason.† (source)couplets = successive pairs of lines of poetry; usually rhymed
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Shakespeare himself often works a statement of its own into that last couplet, but it also usually ties in pretty closely with the third quatrain.† (source)couplet = two successive lines of poetry; usually rhymed
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An FBI security detail at the Plaza had reported that the protest was growing loud and that the party guests, as they entered, were being cursed in rhyming couplets, exposed to obscene signs and gestures, spat upon at close range and forced to duck an occasional flying object.† (source)couplets = successive pairs of lines of poetry; usually rhymed
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Billy found the couplet so comical that he not only laughed-he shrieked.† (source)couplet = two successive lines of poetry; usually rhymed
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It would be nice to say that I smiled and spoke of pleasant things in carefully metered rhyming couplets, like Prince Gallant from some faerie story.† (source)couplets = successive pairs of lines of poetry; usually rhymed
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The couplet by our family's shop was particularly fine.† (source)couplet = two successive lines of poetry; usually rhymed
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She had written versions of the deportment and civics texts in hendecasyllabic couplets, like those used for spelling, but she could not obtain official approval for them.† (source)couplets = successive pairs of lines of poetry; usually rhymed
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From her sleeve, she pulled out our fan, whipped it open, and read the simple couplet we had written together: "Elder Sister and good friend, quiet and kind.† (source)couplet = two successive lines of poetry; usually rhymed
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