These outcomes, these upshots, can be special. What's more -- / They sound like two letters: 6, 24.
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These outcomes, these upshots, can be special. What's more -- / They sound like two letters: 6, 24.
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Take a fall drink and let it ferment for a beverage having this name. / Or take that same drink and freeze it all up -- the result could be labeled the same.
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Scores of this thing make up the world -- in countless combinations, all told. / Despite what you've heard, they include not "surprise", but they do include beautiful gold.
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Dark clouds o'er the valley; the air has a chill. You shout, "Is it going to snow?" / You don't hear an answer; instead you hear this, if the distant response is a "No!"
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To pound hot metal into stuff, like armor, shield, or fetter. / Or else forget, keeping all but the final, ultimate letter.
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"Tri" for a tot, "bi" for the street. / And "uni's" the thing for a carnival feat.
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Be crabby? In a way, that's just what I meant! / You need to step sideways, with furtive intent!
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Guitarists? They worry 'bout all kinds of things. / That's why this ridge is found under the strings.