"His eyes lay dark and tunneled in a caved and haunted face and a foul stench rose from the wells of his boot tops."
"His eyes lay dark and tunneled in a caved and haunted face and a foul stench rose from the wells of his boot tops."
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"ALQUIST: For peace of my soul."
From Karel Čapek's play - R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
Gg
The white quail stretched a wing backward and smoothed down the feathers with her beak.
"I suppose there's a pleasure in satirizing a failure." - Emily Climbs
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
'Men zocht naar een aanleiding voor zijn treurigheid en mevrouw Favrot, die het spel en de spelers door en door kende, begon tragische tonelen eindigende in zelfmoord te ruiken.'
'A cause for his sadness was looked for and Mme Favrot, who knew the game and its players through and through, started to imagine tragic scenes ending in suicide'
(Monaco, Three Types, Marcellus Emants, 1878)
From a translation I am making, hopefully to some avail.
One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.
"Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
A spoonful for each drinker and one for the pot.
The natural light was enkindled in him.-Les Miserables
I like poetry,long walks on the beach and poking dead things with a stick.
But the slightest word of real bitterness, which he was infallible in distinguishing from pretended anger, seemed to sink into his heart and poison all his enjoyments, till he became sensible that he was entirely forgiven.
The book right next to me, eh? Okay.
"Pressing the A button with a weapon equipped will attack by firing the gun, swinging the steel pipe, etc."
-- Deadly Premonition instruction manual
Go Tell It on the MountainIf she had lived, John thought, then he would never have been born; his father would never have come North and met his mother.
James Baldwin
Whilst indulging myself into a cup of mud at a local diner, I happened to glance at a young couple sitting in a booth across from one another, glaring into their own laps. Upon further investigation I discovered they were not in mourning, but rather silently text messaging on their cell phones with exceptional dexterity and incredible speed.
Now this is a pretty intriguing sentence! It makes one wonder who the concerned personality might be that has so much influence on the lives of all these people!Originally Posted by EricW
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
"These financial statements are the responsibility of the company's management."
Auditing and Assurance Services: A Systematic Approach by Messier, Glover, and Prawitt.
- my husband's book. go figure.
"My warm hands have made the paper limp,
So that its feel reminds me of slept-in sheets: comfortable and safe"
"All these things I say... I say them because I want you to know, I don't ever want to regret afterwards that I didn't say enough, I would rather say too much." ~ Samuel Selvon
"He likes to tell them about fireflies."
- Manuscripts don't burn -
"I will go and look for it," said the other gently.
FRANK: (Rising) Mrs. Warren, I cannot give my Vivie up even for your sake.
-"Mrs. Warren's Profession" from "'Man and Superman' and Three Other Plays" by George Bernard Shaw
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...
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