The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the ...rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rammed me in with foul shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins, that, Master Brook, there was the rankest compoun...d of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
List, list, O list! If thou didst ever thy dear father love--... ... Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. ... Murder most foul, as in the best it is, But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds,... That the fixed sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch. Fire answers fire, and through their play flames Each battle sees the other's umbered face. Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. He answered and s...aid unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather today: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »