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...another expedition he stole $73 from Raycraft's Drugstore. His ambition growing, he lifted the courthouse keys from the sheriff's pocket, made a nocturnal visit to the vault containing the records of his burglary case. Though he failed to open it, he eased the sting of defeat by swiping $23 from the sheriff's desk...
...James Joyce? Finn's taste of love is more bitter. He worships Shoon Lawlee, a gingery colleen with almond-shaped eyes. She spurns him, and flounces off to the big world, only to come home pregnant and die. Finn buries the sting of it in underground work for a united Ireland. In the end he is hanged, and Ches gets his princely belt, only to see Cloone razed by fire...
...spacious modern school in Lisbon, cleared of students for the occasion, the diplomatic, military and economic brains of the North Atlantic Alliance gathered this week with their full panoply of committees, subcommittees and commissions. One of their big objectives was to take the sting out of that joke...
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting...
...Duties of Women. He was friendly with greater men, like Voltaire and Pope, but his satiric wit was to theirs as a mosquito bite to a wasp's sting. Offered the chance to sponsor Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, he muffed it so badly that years later an embittered Johnson rebuffed him with a classic retort: "Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and. when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...