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Nurses run.


NURSES RUN

   Nurses run
   Nurses, on! Noses run
   Nurses, on (tons o' snot)! Noses run
   "Nurses on!" said Di, as noses run
   Nurses ordered roses--run!
   Nurses order red roses--run!
   Nurses order red nudes (used) under read roses--run!
   Nurses, runts egg us on, no? Suggest nurses run
   Nurses say "Asses, run!"
   Nurses sag. I bite yeti. Big asses run
   "Nurses-oh!" says sick Cissy as hoses run
   Nurse suggests egg uses--run!
   Nurse!" we yell, "Amos knocks Ed's desk, conks O'Malley;
   ewes run!"
   Nurse farts, Bob strafes--run!
   Nurse, babes run!
   Nurse, we smell Lem's ewes--run!
   Nurse, we smell air, a lamb, a cab, malarial Lem's ewes--run!
Ruth, in Nineveh                Pharaoh's Galley

Nurse, we put egret, fish ...   Nurses--pro? con?
Supple, hot, reborn Ruth        Word is `con'--
Evening, niggardly,             Disc it, son!
T.C., a dactyl dragging:        Galley, push oar--
"Nineveh--turn, Roberto--       Pharaoh's up!
Help push sifter--get up!       Yell, agnostics,
Ewes run.                       "I'd no c's! I'd row!
                                No corpses--run!"


To complete the picture, I add a few palindromes from Stephen Stephen, 1097?–1154, king of England (1135–54). The son of Stephen, count of Blois and Chartres, and Adela, daughter of William I of England, he was brought up by his uncle, Henry I of England, who presented him with estates in England and France and  Chism's From A to Zotamorf:

Nurse, so noses run (Chism) Nurse! so no noses run? (Lid lid

see eyelid.
 off a Daffodil daffodil: see amaryllis.
daffodil

Bulb-forming flowering plant (Narcissus pseudonarcissus), also called common daffodil or trumpet narcissus, native to northern Europe and widely cultivated there and in North America. It grows to about 16 in.
, by Pool) Nurse's onset abates, noses run (Palindromes and Anagrams an·a·gram  
n.
1. A word or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word or phrase, such as satin to stain.

2. anagrams (used with a sing.
, by Bergerson) Nurse, save rare vases, run! (Palindromes and Anagrams, by Bergerson) Nurse, I spy I spy is a guessing game usually played in families with young children, partly to assist in both observation and in alphabet familiarity. I spy is often played as a car game.  gypsies Gypsies or Gipsies [from Egypt, because of an inaccurate idea that Gypsies came from a so-called Little Egypt], a traditionally nomadic people with particular folkways and a unique language, found on every continent; they often refer to , run! (Palindromes and Anagrams, by Bergerson)
JOHN E. CONNETT
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Date:Feb 1, 2002
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