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During the 1800's these turned women into hourglasses and is becoming more popular again these days
Half-way up the hill, I see you at last, lying beneath me with your sounds and sights. A city in the twilight, dim and vast, with smoking roofs, soft bells, and gleaming lights.
What has 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs in the evening and 3 legs in the night?
I cannot be other than what I am, until the man who made me dies. Power and glory will fall to me finally. Only when he last closes his eyes.
It happens when something has been cut with H2O.
What covers its face with its hands, speaks no language, yet most known what it's saying?