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  • Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.

    - Robert Burns
      'Tam o' Shanter.  A  Tale'.

  • I saw pale kings, and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; Who cry'd'La belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!'

    -John Keats
      'La Belle Dame Sans Merci', stanza10.

  • He played an ancient ditty, long since mute, In Provence called,'La belle dame sans mercy'.

    -John Keats
      Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'The Eve of St.  Agnes', stanza 33.

  • but wotthehell wotthehell oh i should worry and fret death and I will coquette there s a dance in the old dame yet toujoursgai toujoursgai.

    - Don(ald Robert Perry) Marquis
      archy and mehitabel,'the song of mehitabel'.

  • Nought so of love this looser dame did skill, But as a coal to kindle fleshly flame, Giving the bridle to her wanton will, And treading underfoot her honest name.

    - Edmund Spenser
      Of Malecasta.The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto1, stanza 50.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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