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In 1609 Thomas Dekker used the term in The Gull’s Hornbook: "when at a new play you take up the twelve-penny room next the stage, (because the Lords and you may seem to be haile fellow wel-met) there draw forth this booke, read alowd, laugh alowd, and play the Antickes, that all the garlicke mouthd stinkards may cry out, Away with the fool."
On subsequent appearances the song is sometimes listed as "Burn My Candle (At Both Ends)". Most recently, it appears on the CD compilation Burn My Candle - The Complete Early Years . Bassey re-recorded the song in 1966, but it remained unreleased until 1975 when it appeared on the 2-LP set The Shirley Bassey Collection II .
At midnight, all the virgins hear the call to come out to meet the bridegroom. Realising their lamps are going out, the foolish virgins ask the wise ones for oil, but they refuse, saying that there will certainly not (Greek ou mē) [4] be enough for them to share. While the foolish virgins are away trying to buy more oil, the bridegroom arrives.
In a few cases, the junction of two road segments may be offset from each when reaching an intersection, even though both ends may be considered the same street. Six-way intersections usually involve a crossing of three streets at one junction; for example, a crossing of two perpendicular streets and a diagonal street is a rather common type of ...
It usually takes the form of a story, often with dialogue, and ends in a punch line, whereby the humorous element of the story is revealed; this can be done using a pun or other type of word play, irony or sarcasm, logical incompatibility, hyperbole, or other means. [2] Linguist Robert Hetzron offers the definition:
Both Ends Meet is a 1972 British sitcom television series for London Weekend Television set around women working in a sausage factory. It featured veteran actress Dora Bryan as Dora Page, a working class widow raising her son alone. [1] The first series of seven episodes went to air as Both Ends Meet, but the second series was titled simply ...
Chicago Med’s Mitch Ripley recently lost his girlfriend and, potentially, his job, and he could soon lose his life, too. In this Wednesday’s episode (NBC, 8/7c), the doc discovers a mother and ...
The reef knot can capsize if one of its standing ends is pulled.. A knot that has capsized or spilled has deformed into a different structure. Although capsizing is sometimes the result of incorrect tying or misuse, it can also be done purposefully in certain cases to strengthen the knot (see the carrick bend [4]) or to untie a seized knot which would otherwise be difficult to release (see ...