Cows wandered through the streets.... Vegetables grew chiefly in cans, and stream-beds and cañons glittered with these omnipresen...t signs of civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The women there do all they ought; The men observe the Rules of Thought;... They love the Good; they worship Truth; They laugh uproariously in youth; (And when they get to feeling old, They up and shoot themselves, I'm told). . .LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing i...n the Christian religion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Long shall we seek his likeness, long in vain, And turn to all of him which may remain,... Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, And broke the die--in moulding Sheridan!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The day was ending at it was the hour of which I do not want to speak, the hour without a name, when the sounds of evening ascende...d from all the floors of the prison in a procession of silence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here were poor streets where faded gentility essayed with scanty space and shipwrecked means to make its last feeble stand, but ta...x-gatherer and creditor came there as elsewhere, and the poverty that yet faintly struggled was hardly less squalid and manifest than that which had long ago submitted and given up the game.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »