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* '''Can't hear with the waters of. The chittering waters of. Flittering bats, fieldmice bawk talk.''' | * '''Can't hear with the waters of. The chittering waters of. Flittering bats, fieldmice bawk talk.''' | ||
| − | ** | + | ** Cf. popular English nursery rhyme: ''Hickory, dickory, dock, / The mouse ran up the clock. / The clock struck one, / The mouse ran down, / Hickory, dickory, dock.''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickory_Dickory_Dock] Some reports claim that the rhyme was written by Oliver Goldsmith, in [[Dublin]] for a volume of nursery rhymes he was collecting[http://www.irishabroad.com/Travel/Features/dublins-literary-greats.asp] |
* '''hitherandthithering''' | * '''hitherandthithering''' | ||
** Cf. [http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rac101/concord/texts/paym/paym.cgi?word=hither+and+thither A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] | ** Cf. [http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rac101/concord/texts/paym/paym.cgi?word=hither+and+thither A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] | ||
Revision as of 06:47, 16 March 2012
- Beside the rivering waters of, hither & thither waters of → Beside the rivering waters of, hitherandthithering waters of
- Can't hear with the waters of. The chittering waters of. Flittering bats, fieldmice bawk talk.
- hitherandthithering
