Cups
A single example of excellence is in the meat. A bent stick is surgingand might all might is mental. A grand clothes is searching out a candlenot that wheatly not that by more than an owl and a path. A ham is proudof cocoanut.
A cup is neglected by being all in size. It is a handle and meadows andsugar any sugar.
A cup is neglected by being full of size. It shows no shade, in comelittle wood cuts and blessing and nearly not that not with a wild boughtin, not at all so polite, not nearly so behind.
Cups crane in. They need a pet oyster, they need it so hoary and nearlychoice. The best slam is utter. Nearly be freeze.
Why is a cup a stir and a behave. Why is it so seen.
A cup is readily shaded, it has in between no sense that is to saymusic, memory, musical memory.
Peanuts blame, a half sand is holey and nearly.
Words in this poem
- polite a.
- Smooth; polished. [L. politus, p. p. of polire to polish: cf. F. poli. See Polish, v.]
- hoary a.
- White or whitish."The hoary willows."
- slam v. t.
- To shut with force and a loud noise; to bang; as, he slammed the door. [Of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. slamra, slambra, sl, Norw. slemba, slemma, dial. Sw. slämma.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
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