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Nothing more? There are fifty score
varieties of comment. Nay, more.
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Just change the tone. For example:
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Aggressive: ''A nose in such a state
I'd amputate.''
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Friendly: ''It must dip in your cup
You need a crane to hoist it up.''
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Descriptive: ''A rock, a bluff, a cape!''
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''No, a peninsula in size and shape!''
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Curious: ''What is that oblong?
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''A writing desk or am I wrong?''
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Gracious: ''Are you food of birds?
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''You provide a gothic perch
for them...''
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''to rest their feet.''
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Truculent: ''A smoker? I suppose...''
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The fumes gush out from that nose
like a chimney on fire.''
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Kind: ''It will drag you in the mire
head-first with its weight.''
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Tender: ''I'll have an umbrella made
to give it some summer shade.''
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Pedant: ''The beast of Aristophanes
the hippocampocamalelephunt...''
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''had flesh and bone like that up front''
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Drama: ''It bleeds like the Red Sea.''
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Impressed:
''What a sign for a perfumery.''
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Lyric:
''Ah, Triton rising from the waters.''
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''How much to view the monument?''
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Warlike: ''Train it on the cavalry!''
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Practical: ''Put that in a lottery
for noses and it'll be first prize.''
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And finally, with sighs and cries...
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in language deeply felt:
''O that this too too...''
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''solid nose would melt.''
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That is what you could have said
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or had an ounce of wit in your head.
But you've no letters
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save the three
required to describe you: S.O.T.
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Had you the wit required...