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I stole every nickel, dime and dollar and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and bask on all the worlds most famous beaches.

Frank Abagnale

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And with as delicate a hand Could twist as tough a rope of sand; And weave fine cobwebs, fit for skull That's empty when the moon is full; Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnishe' d.

— 1663 Hudibras, pt.1, canto1, l.155-60.

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I am pent up in frowzy lodgings, where there isnot room enough to swing a cat.

— 1771 Letter from Matthew Bramble, 8 Jun, Humphrey Clinker, vol.1.

Tags: pent, there, isnot, room, enough, swing, cat

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness, That is not kept in chains, and close-pent rooms, But in fair lightsome lodgings, and isgirt With the wild noise of prattling visitants, Which makes it lunatic beyond all cure.

john webster

— 1623 The Duchess of Malfi, act1, sc.1.

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And weave fine cobwebs, fit for skull That's empty when the moon is full; Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished.

— Canto I, line 159.

Tags: weave, cobwebs, fit, skull, empty, when, moon, full, head

There was a man here last night you needn't be afraid that I shall mention his name who said that his will was given up to God, and who got mad because the omnibus was full, and he had to walk a mile to his lodgings.

— Dwight L. Moody.

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Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished.

— Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto I, line 161.

Tags: head, unfurnished

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