A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of, every month, in the newspapers, which catch a man's coat-skirt or his ha...nd, and draw in his arm, his leg, and his whole body to irresistible destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For thou, O Spring! canst renovate All that high God did first create.... Be still his arm and architect, Rebuild the ruin, mend defect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
See, see where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul--half a drop! ah, my Christ!--... Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!-- Yet will I call on him!--O, spare me, Lucifer!-- Where is it now? 'T is gone; and see where God Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!-- Mountains and hills, come, come and fall on me, And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Linda, you are leaving your old body now.... It lies flat, an old butterfly, all arm, all leg, all wing, loose as an old dress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The representative women of the nation have done their uttermost for the last thirty years to secure freedom for the negro, and so... long as he was lowest in the scale of being we were allowed to press his claims; but now, as the celestial gate to civil rights is slowly moving on its hinges, it becomes a serious question whether we had better stand aside and see "Sambo" walk into the kingdom first. As self-preservation is the first law of nature, would it not be wiser to keep our lamps trimmed and burning, and when the constitutional door is open, avail ourselves of the strong arm and blue uniform of the black soldier to walk in by his side, and thus make the gap so wide that no privileged class could ever again close it against the humblest citizen of the republic?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Diamond, the only trouble with you is you'd like to be me. You'd like to have my organization, my influence, my fix. You can't; th...at's impossible. You think it's money; it's not. It's personality. You haven't got it, Lieutenant. You're a cop. Slow. Steady. Intelligent. With a bad temper, and a gun under your arm. And with a big yen for a girl he can't have. First is first, and second is nobody.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am the LORD, and I will free you from the burdens of the Egyptians and deliver you from slavery to them. I will redeem you with ...an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment. I will take you as my people, and I will be your God. You shall know that I am the LORD your God, who has freed you from the burdens of the Egyptians.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Between my chin and throat his mouth slipped over and over.... Still between my arm and shoulder, I feel the brush of his hair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Suddenly he found he had pressed the spring of the grenade. He struggled to pull it out of his pocket. It stuck in the narrow pock...et. His arm and his cold fingers that clutched the grenade seemed paralyzed. Then a warm joy went through him. He had thrown it. Anderson was standing up, swaying backwards and forwards. The explosion made the woods quake.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »