Goss and Bennett …trained him to make Europe yawn; and he took advantage of their training to make London and New York laugh and whistle.
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Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
robert burtonHollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.
ilana mercerWhy doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
robert burtonThee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The Pains and Penalties of Idleness.
Alexander PopeSummer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame. With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank, And clipped its cup in the purpurate shine When the eastern conduits ran with wine.
Francis ThompsonHollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.
'Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and Hell itself breathes out contagion to this world.
william shakespeare