Beyond all question, I might have had a wiser friend than he. The atmosphere in which alone he breathed was dense; his awful dread... of death showed how much muddy imperfection was to be cleansed out of him, before he could be capable of spiritual existence; he meddled only with the surface of life, and never cared to penetrate further than to ploughshare depth; his very sense and sagacity were but a one-eyed clear-sightedness.... Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They made me take cod liver oil: that is the height of luxury: a medicine to make you hungry while the others, in the street, woul...d have sold themselves for a beefsteak. I saw them passing my window with their signs: "Give me bread".LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When an Indian is burned, his body may be broiled, it may be no more than a beefsteak. What of that? They may broil his heart, but... they do not therefore broil his courage,--his principles. Be of good courage! That is the main thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He would not take that direction, to the darkness, to follow her. He walked towards the faintly humming, glowing town, quickly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Being the sons of mothers whose husbands had blundered rather brutally through their feminine sanctities, they were themselves too... diffident and shy. They could easier deny themselves than incur any reproach from a woman; for a woman was like their mother, and they were full of the sense of their mother. They preferred themselves to suffer the misery of celibacy, rather than risk the other person.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They had met, and included in their meeting the thrust of the manifold grass stems, the cry of the peewit, the wheel of the stars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »