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  • Seul le rythme provoque le court-circuit poe  tique et transmue le cuivre en or, la parole en verbe. Only rhythm brings about a poetic short-circuit and transforms the copper into gold, the words into life.

    - Le  opold Se  dar Senghor
      EŁ  thiopiques, postface.

  • An Irishmanislined with copper, and thebeercorrodesit. But whiskey polishesthe copperand isthesavingof him.

    - Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
      Life on the Mississippi, ch.23.

  • Mr Salter's side of the conversation was limited to expressions of assent.When Lord Copper was right, he said,'Definitely, Lord Copper'; when he was wrong,'Up to a point.'

    - Evelyn Arthur StJohn Waugh
      Scoop, bk.1, ch.1.

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