This ferry was as busy as a beaver dam, and all the world seemed anxious to get across the Merrimack River at this particular poin...t, waiting to get set over,--children with their two cents done up in paper, jail-birds broke lose and constable with warrant, travelers from distant lands to distant lands, men and women to whom the Merrimack River was a bar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I saw young Harry with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly armed,... Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropped down from the clouds To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men mar...ried them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the consequence of this institution that not a school- house, a public pew, a bridge, a pound, a mill-dam, hath been set up,... or pulled down, or altered, or bought, or sold, without the whole population of this town having a voice in the affair. A general contentment is the result. And the people truly feel that they are lords of the soil. In every winding road, in every stone fence, in the smokes of the poor-house chimney, in the clock on the church, they read their own power, and consider, at leisure, the wisdom and error of their judgments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Blood has been harder to dam back than water. Just when we think we have it impounded safe... Behind new barrier walls (and let it chafe!), It breaks away in some new kind of slaughter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,... is the strongest force in developing social discontent, swelling the powerful tide of unrest that sweeps onward and over the dam of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Right down the dam gross-bellied frogs were cocked On sods; their loose necks pulsed like sails. Some hopped:... The slap and plop were obscene threats. Some sat Poised like mud grenades, their blunt heads farting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women think that an engineer is a man in hip boots building a dam. They don't realize that 95 percent of engineering is done in a ...nice air-conditioned office.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »