"king" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But his manner had more of King Log and less of King Stork.
- She also won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for picture books, recognizing King Stork (Little, Brown, 1973), text by Howard Pyle (1853-1911).
- Howard Pyle, King Stork, 1973.
- Tories aching for fizz have to accept the meat and two veg reality; and they may remember that, in the fable, Jupiter grew so tired of the frogs complaining about their uninspiring King Log that he sent down a replacement, King Stork, who ate them all.
- King Log and King Stork THE People being dissatisfied with a Democratic Legislature, which stole no more than they had, elected a Republican one, which not only stole all they had but exacted a promissory note for the balance due, secured by a mortgage upon their hope of death.
- As to the sort of Mayor she would make, there is an old story-Aesop told it-about King Log and King Stork.
- The majority of allusions to Aesop's fable contrast the quietism of King Log with the energetic policy of King Stork.
- The fable is pressed into the service of political commentary in the title "King Stork and King Log: at the dawn of a new reign", a study of Russia written in 1895 by the political assassin Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky, using the pen-name S. Stepniak.
- "Does anything remind you of King Log and King Stork?"
- We're fed up with King Stork; King Log would be welcome relief.
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