Zeugmata
19 quotes
"Ask a medieval peasant where America was and you'd get a blank look. Or, worse still, the plague."
"My blood sugar fell dramatically and so did I."
"It's like an episode of "Yes, Prime Minister" with no Sir Humphrey, no Sir Bernard and no laughter."
"The iconoclast Henry Sherfield in 1630 broke not only a window depicting God the Father in St Edmund's, Salisbury, but also his own leg while standing on a pew to do it."
"Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton takes the oath and his seat in the Upper House after his bombshell return as Foreign Secretary in the reshuffle."
"When all the clowns that you have commissioned have died in battle or in vain."
"[Ed Davey should] clear his diary, clear his desk, and clear off."
"He himself fled back to France, alcoholism, tawdry affairs and disillusionment."
"...was crucified, dead and buried..."
"History is now and England."
"A good sermon should be about God and about eight minutes long."
"He left the room with neither his hat nor his dignity."
"She made no reply, up her mind, and a dash for the door."
"The arms race was finished by the Dreadnought and by 1914."
"You may leave with an improved knowledge of coastal defences and an ice cream."
"You leave with my best wishes and a fine collection of zeugmata."
"They tear your possessions to pieces, and my heart."
"deposito pariter cum veste timore"
"onerat Seianum, saevitiam, superbiam, spes eius"