Potential Titles: Hilaire Belloc

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Refrain from the unholy pleasure - Hilaire Belloc "The Bad Children's Book of Beasts: Dedication"

A tiger well repay the trouble and expense - Hilaire Belloc "The Bad Children's Book of Beasts: The Tiger"

Shoot the hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum - Hilaire Belloc "The Bad Children's Book of Beasts: The Hippopotamus"

Angels brought Him toys of gold - Hilaire Belloc "The Birds"

Short spasms on the brink of deep chasms - Hilaire Belloc "The Chamois"

And Courtesy was in them all - Hilaire Belloc "Courtesy"

The quiet evening kept her tryst - Hilaire Belloc "Dedicatory Ode"

A hundred little towns of stone - Hilaire Belloc "Dedicatory Ode"

Spirits that call and no one answers - Hilaire Belloc "Hannaker Mill (1913)"

Never doubt what nobody is sure about - Hilaire Belloc "The Microbe"

When Bears are seen approaching in the distance - Hilaire Belloc "A Moral Alphabet: B"

Between Retreat and Armed Resistance - Hilaire Belloc "A Moral Alphabet: B"

Decisive action in the hour of need - Hilaire Belloc "A Moral Alphabet: B"

Conveys no kind of Moral worth recalling - Hilaire Belloc "A Moral Alphabet: C"

The early world observed with awe - Hilaire Belloc "A Moral Alphabet: D"

The advantage of having two strings to his bow - Hilaire Belloc "A Moral Alphabet: H"

Who thought it immaterial to pay his taxes - Hilaire Belloc "A Moral Alphabet: J"

With a vast apparatus of Buckets and Pails - Hilaire Belloc "A Moral Alphabet: K"

Wander through wild Hyperborean glades - Hilaire Belloc "A Moral Alphabet: K"

Turning up nothing but bushels of earth - Hilaire Belloc "A Moral Alphabet: K"

Attempting to pilfer from those who have none - Hilaire Belloc "A Moral Alphabet: K"

The most poignant of all their delights - Hilaire Belloc "A Moral Alphabet: L"

The Other Man has always got to Pay - Hilaire Belloc "A Moral Alphabet: N"

What Epicures would certainly reject - Hilaire Belloc "A Moral Alphabet: P"

Would take the Cows for half their weight in gold - Hilaire Belloc "A Moral Alphabet: S"

Who fills the Armies of the World with fear - Hilaire Belloc "A Moral Alphabet: V"

Put aside the empty Pomp of Military Pride - Hilaire Belloc "A Moral Alphabet: V"

Teach a clever child to find excuse for doing all that he's inclined - Hilaire Belloc "A Moral Alphabet: X"

When we get to Z our interest in the Alphabet is dead - Hilaire Belloc "A Moral Alphabet: Z"

Rant in wild, unmeaning rhymes - Hilaire Belloc "More Beasts (For Worse Children): Introduction"

By an artful plan deceived our watchful eyes - Hilaire Belloc "More Beasts (For Worse Children): Introduction"

The keys of all the doors of sleep - Hilaire Belloc "The Night"

That chant the dead day's requiem - Hilaire Belloc "The Night"

Fold your great wings about my face - Hilaire Belloc "The Night"

And cheat me with your false delight - Hilaire Belloc "The Night"

The Voids of Hell expand - Hilaire Belloc "The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening"

The rocks have evil faces - Hilaire Belloc "The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening"

Strong friend of souls - Hilaire Belloc "The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening"

Redeem me from accursed ground - Hilaire Belloc "The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening"

The long descent of wasted days - Hilaire Belloc "The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening"

Allow no music near its cage - Hilaire Belloc "The Python"

A lost thing could I never find - Hilaire Belloc "The South Country"

Nor a broken thing mend - Hilaire Belloc "The South Country"

The Vulture eats between his meals - Hilaire Belloc "The Vulture"


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