The more I live here in western Europe, the more I am impressed by the sense of decay;Mnot the graceful and dignified decay of an ...oriental, but the vulgar and sordid decay of a bankrupt cotton-mill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All that is necessary to do with this drink is to place it in an open saucer on the window sill and inhale deeply from across the ...room. In about eight seconds the top of the inhaler's head rises slowly and in a dignified manner until it reaches the ceiling where it floats, bumping gently up and down. The teeth then drop out and arrange themselves on the floor to spell "Portage High School, 1930" the eyes roll upward and backward, and a strange odor of burning rubber fills the room.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignif...ied.... after a crise ... of hysterical revulsion and tiredness, I passed beyond ... and became entered by a rather sublime feeling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My one pupil has begun his work with me, and I will give you a description how the lecture is conducted. It is the most important ...point, you know, that the tutor should be dignified and at a distance from the pupil, and that the pupil should be as much as possible degraded.... So I sit at the further end of the room; outside the door (which is shut) sits the scout; outside the outer door (also shut) sits the sub-scout: half-way downstairs sits the sub- sub-scout: and down in the yard sits the pupil. The questions are shouted from one to the other, and the answers come back in the same way--it is rather confusing till you are well used to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am provoked at the contempt which most historians show for humanity in general; one would think by them, that the whole human sp...ecies consisted but of about a hundred and fifty people, called and dignified (commonly very undeservedly too) by the titles of Emperors, Kings, Popes, Generals, and Ministers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down.... Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely... religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greed...y and ferocious pirates. They were all alike, they took everything they could carry, they burned, harried, violated, tortured, and killed until everything English was brought to the verge of ruin. Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame an...d secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty an...d war's fears and pains, is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill, delicacy, and ever-increasing enjoyment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »