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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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Billy found the couplet so comical that he not only laughed-he shrieked.† (source)
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In his time, he had seen a couplet of Pushkin's sway a hesitant heart.† (source)
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I've been trying to write just couplets lately.† (source)
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Then I'll curse them so bad they'll be speaking in rhyming couplets for weeks.† (source)
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And then she sang to herself, a little couplet Bod had never heard before.† (source)
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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)
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No hallowed skein of stars can ward, I trow, ran the couplet.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Joe recited this couplet with such manifest pride and careful perspicuity, that I asked him if he had made it himself.† (source)
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So Taleswapper spoke, forming the words into couplets as he said them because that was how visions ought to be expressed, in poetry.† (source)
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Each couplet, by definition, having two syllables.† (source)
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PLAYER (lost): There we were-demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance-and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air.† (source)
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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)
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