"Each movement is designed to scientifically oxygenate, then stretch, then strengthen, and then restretch a particular muscle group."
'The Pilates Pregnancy'
by Mari Winsor with Mark Laska
"Each movement is designed to scientifically oxygenate, then stretch, then strengthen, and then restretch a particular muscle group."
'The Pilates Pregnancy'
by Mari Winsor with Mark Laska
"We always hope calamity will not overtake us in this lifetime, rather like children trying to avoid difficult lessons."
Gatherer of Clouds by Sean Russell
"The widow rushed to prepare for battle."
Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
Moreover, if N is relatively prime to 10 (that is, is not divisible by 2 or 5), then some multiple of N consists entirely of 1s.
The USSR Olympiad Problem Book
D.O. Shklarsky, N.N. Chentzov and I.M. Yaglom
"Sick minds identified the notion of a Terra planet with that of another world and this 'Other World' got confused not only with the 'Next World' but with the Real World in us and beyond us."
Ada or Ardor - Nabokov.
"Well, what the hell, he can shake hands can't he?"
From "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey.
A breeze flaunting ever so warmly down the Mall through the thin trees, past the bronze heroes, lifted some flag flying in the British breast of Mr. Bowley and he raised his hat as the car turned into the Mall and held it high as the car approached and let the poor mothers of Pimlico press close to him, and stood very upright.
"You could say that." Richard Adams "Watership Down"
"There's no past, present or future outside our own mind."
Against the South wall of the room there was a couch of mother-of-pearl, on which the girls spread an embroidered coverlet and helped the priest to lie down. (From the story A Taoist Priest in the book Taoist Tales edited by Raymond Van Over) The fifth sentence of page 23 is even better though: The priest then pulled the older girl down to share his pillow, and bade the younger one to stand by the couch and scratch him.
"A wagtail, like a blue-gray wind, quickstepped across the sand."
"Sounds" from The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
"Why, Richard often wondered, did his mother hate him so?"
From "Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer" by Philip Carlo
"The Warning on Inner Hatch mentioned food, water, and air; and yet surely these were not necessities for the fiends of Hell."
From "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Can't you tell them I'm alright, Mr. Gilbert?
"De bes' way is to res' easy en let de ole man take his own way." Huck Finn, Mark Twain