• Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: he's pitiful to flies even. ''Sing,'' says he, ''and tease me still, if that's your way, poor insect.''

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  English poet 1806-1861
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. pitiful
2. insect
3. flies
4. tease
5. still

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Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: he's pitiful to flies even. ''Sing,'' says he, ''and tease me still, if that's your way, poor insect.'' by : Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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