There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most p...eople go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Silent is the house: all are laid asleep: One alone looks out o'er the snow-wreaths deep,... Watching every cloud, dreading every breeze That whirls the 'wildering drift, and bends the groaning trees.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He was good-natured to a degree of weakness, even to tears, upon the slightest occasions. Exceedingly timorous, both personally an...d politically, dreading the least innovation, and keeping, with a scrupulous timidity, in the beaten track of business as having the safest bottom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and th...at the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, forseeing man,... Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;... Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet this aboundant issue seem'd to me, But hope of Orphans, and un-fathered fruite,... For sommer and his pleasures waite on thee, And thou away, the very birds are mute. Or if they sing, tis with so dull a cheere. That leaves looke pale, dreading the winter's neere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Craving that old sweet oneness yet dreading engulfment, wishing to be our mother's and yet be our own, we stormily swing from mood... to mood, advancing and retreating--the quintessential model of two-mindedness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"What are ye doing?" cried Manfred, wrathfully: "Where is my son?" A volley of voices replied, "Oh, my lord! the prince! the princ...e! the helmet! the helmet!" Shocked with these lamentable sounds, and dreading he knew not what, he advanced hastily--But what a sight for a father's eyes!--He beheld his child dashed to pieces, and almost buried under an enormous helmet, an hundred times more large than any casque ever made for human being, and shaded with a proportionable quantity of black feathers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »