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Tag Name "Polly" (17)

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Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.
Ann Brashares
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Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea.
Charles Dickens
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Polly: Education with socialists, it's like sex, all right as long as you don't have to pay for it.
Alan Bennett
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Polly Findlay showed real insight and imagination in her production of my translation of Seneca's Thyestes at the Arcola. I enjoyed her use of the space and the detail of her work with the actors, and I'm looking forward to seeing what she does with Light Shining.
Caryl Churchill
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In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make use of. Now that she had Uncle Andrew, she took no notice of Digory. I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them they are terribly practical.
C. S. Lewis
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I don’t think I will get married,” Polly said as she stood up. “I’m going to train to be a hero instead.
Diana Wynne Jones
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O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
John Gay
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Why did she give up wine for Lent? Polly was more sensible. She had given up strawberry jam. Cecilia had never seen Polly show more than a passing interest in strawberry jam, although now, of course, she was always catching her standing at the open fridge, staring at it longingly. The power of denial.
Liane Moriarty
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She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.
Mark Millar
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Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.
Richard Savage
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Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.
C. S. Lewis
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Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!
Diana Wynne Jones
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Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.
Eleanor Porter
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I had an amazing advantage: a grandmother [Polly Noonan, an influential confidante of the mayor of Albany] who loved politics. She taught me not to listen to negative press or people. I grew up knowing politics was rough-and-tumble.
Kirsten Gillibrand
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But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.
Louisa May Alcott
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Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first! Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
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Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making hay, And whistling down the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill, While mother from the kitchen door is calling with a will, Polly!-Polly!- The cows are in the corn! Oh, where's Polly?
Richard Watson Gilder