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Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

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adjective

Engaged in or ready for action; characterized by energetic work, thought, or speech.

The students were very active in class discussions, asking many thoughtful questions.

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pimp

Part of Speech: nounPronunciation: /pɪmp/Used In Literature ↓

Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.

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Poetry examples for pimp

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

than Christians by his sermons. These are those episcopal Tantivies,

who can make even the very scriptures pimp for the court, who out of

_Urim and Thummim_ can extort a sermon, to prove the not paying of

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door of the room where they sat was open, and his grace, who had seated

himself near it, observing a pimp of his acquaintance (the creature too

was a knight) trip by with a brace of ladies, immediately quitted his

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