Quotes with cuckoo

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• In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

  ― Orson Welles
  American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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• Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

  ― Alan Coren
  English humourist, writer and satirist (1938 - 2007)
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• Towery city and branching between towers; Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmed, lark-charmed, rook-racked, river-rounded.

  ― Gerard Manley Hopkins
  English poet and Jesuit (1844 - 1889)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• cuckoo-echoing
• river-rounded
• lark-charmed
• rook-racked
• something
• branching

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