Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or w...ith martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow--or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird... Hath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle; Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By the roadside a hideous carrion, quivering On a clean bed of pebbly clay,... Her legs flexed in the air like a courtesan, Burning and sweating venomously, Calmly exposed its belly, ironic and wan, Clamorous with foul ecstasy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was very agreeable, as well as independent, thus lying in the open air, and the fire kept our uncovered extremities warm enough.... The Jesuit missionaries used to say, that, in their journeys with the Indians in Canada, they lay on a bed which had never been shaken up since creation, unless by earthquakes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is surprising with what impunity and comfort one who has always lain in a warm bed in a close apartment, and studiously avoided... drafts of air, can lie down on the ground without a shelter, roll himself in a blanket, and sleep before a fire, in a frosty autumn night, just after a long rain-storm, and even come soon to enjoy and value the fresh air.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body, in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some ...air in a spacious apartment, and warms that.... Thus he goes a step or two beyond instinct, and saves a little time for the fine arts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I dreamed as in my bed I lay, All night's fathomless wisdom come,... That I had shorn my locks away And laid them on Love's lettered tomb: But something bore them out of sight In a great tumult of the air.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »