Word: twain
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...literature ostensibly created for children-Huck Finn, Grimm's fairy tales-fantasy was mixed with social satire and cruelty beyond the comprehension of innocent minds. Mark Twain and Grimm succeeded by stressing the differences between the child's and the adult's world. Disney perhaps would have been incapable of tackling such subjects without diminishing in some measure-as he did with Mary Poppins-their hard bite of inner reality. He stressed the sameness of the two worlds, ignored or abolished the differences, reconciled the generations. If at times the results were mawkish, Disney scarcely gave...
...royal symbol is that it is dead; it is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay." But that was nearly a decade ago, and even Osborne has simmered down since. Antiroyalism was once such an embattled issue that even Americans-who basically adore royalty-could echo Mark Twain's dictum: "There was never a throne which did not represent a crime." But nowadays monarchy is not much of a villain. And what would astonish Mark Twain is not that so many kings have lost their crowns but that so many still wear them...
...these words Jonathan sank into shame for he was much afeared of tigers. The angel of the Lord was sore angry at this and proclaimed "Thou darest not be so slack of courage," and with twain he gave Jonathan a blow which made him sore...
...thirteenth year of the reign of Nathan and in the third of the reign of Kingman a slew of winged seraphim spitting hellfire descended unto Jonathan, son of Henry, and he was sore afraid. "Lo," said one of the seraphim as with twain he did cover his eyes, and with twain he did cover his ears and with twain he did cover his mouth, making of consequence his "Lo" wondrously muffled...
Plop No. 1 is a Garden of Eden spoof adapted from Mark Twain's The Diary of Adam and Eve. Eve chews out Adam before he chews on the apple. She wants the grass "shortened." She wants their three-board wigwam painted because she hates brown. Their Eden is no paradise of humor. Adam: "I have to empty the four-pronged white squirter." Eve: "You mean the cow." Eve discovers love, but the snake must have slipped her the lyrics...