...there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease. Though its root gro...ws old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground, yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant. But mortals die, and are laid low; humans expire, and where are they?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a ...300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"That corpse you planted last year in your garden, "Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?... "Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed? "O keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men, "Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A girl in the middle years also becomes more centered in her soul-life, the feelings of her heart, and she needs our guidance to l...earn to express her uniqueness, those small seeds that will someday sprout into gifts, talents, and resources.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen,... An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Firm-style bean curd insoles cushion feet, absorb perspiration and provide more protein than meat or fish innersoles of twice the ...weight. Tofu compresses with use, becoming more pungent and flavorful. May be removed when not in use to dry or marinate. Innersoles are ready to eat after 1,200 miles of wear. Each pair provides adult protein requirement for 2 meals. Insoles are sized large to allow for snacks. Recipe booklet included.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When first my lines of heavenly joys made mention, Such was their luster, they did so excel,... That I sought out quaint words and trim invention; My thoughts began to burnish, sprout, and swell, Curling with metaphors a plain intention, Decking the sense as if it were to sell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... city areas with flourishing diversity sprout strange and unpredictable uses and peculiar scenes. But this is not a drawback of... diversity. This is the point ... of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That is to say, he writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me ...of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm (I was about to write abscess!) of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »