Famous quotes containing the word compound:
“We are all aware that speech, like chemistry, has a structure. There is a limited set of elementsvowels and consonantsand these are combined to produce words which, in turn, compound into sentences.”
—Roger Brown (b. 1925)
“Rammed me in with foul shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins, that, Master Brook, there was the rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“He tries by a peculiar speech to speak
The peculiar potency of the general,
To compound the imaginations Latin with
The lingua franca et jocundissima.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
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