Like vinegar on a wound is one who sings songs to a heavy heart. Like a moth in clothing or a worm in wood, sorrow gnaws at the hu...man heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shal...l he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An illustrious individual remarks that Mrs. [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton is the salt, Anna Dickinson the pepper, and Miss [Susan B.] A...nthony the vinegar of the Female Suffrage movement. The very elements get the "white male" into a nice pickle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine,... Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My grandfather fell on Vinegar Hill, And fighting was not his trade;... But his rusty pike's in the cabin still, With Hessian blood on the blade."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Would mankind be but contented without the continual use of that little but significant pronoun "mine" or "my own," with what luxu...rious delight might they revel in the property of others!... But if envy makes me sicken at the sight of everything that is excellent out of my own possession, then will the sweetest food be sharp as vinegar, and every beauty will in my depraved eyes appear as deformity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He packs wool sheared in April, honey in combs, linen, leather... tanned from deerhide, and vinegar in a barrel hooped by hand at the forge's fire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Until, on Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave. Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon.... The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave. They buried us without shroud or coffin And in August the barley grew up out of the grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
hung up like a pig on exhibit, the delicate wrists,... the beard drooling blood and vinegar; hooked to your own weight, jolting toward death under your nameplate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »