As Jerome expanded, its chances for the title, "the toughest little town in the West," increased and when it was incorporated in 1...899 the citizens were able to support the claim by pointing to the number of thick stone shutters on the fronts of all saloons, gambling halls, and other places of business for protection against gunfire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh! thou clear spirit of clear fire, whom on these seas I as Persian once did worship, till in the sacramental act so burned by th...ee, that to this hour I bear the scar; I now know thee, thou clear spirit, and I now know that thy right worship is defiance. To neither love nor reverence wilt thou be kind; and e'en for hate thou canst but kill; and all are killed. No fearless fool now fronts thee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a write...r puts on the face of reality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee,... Walled round with rocks as an inland island, The ghost of a garden fronts the sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be a neighbor, there is an ...unsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it. Let him build himself a log house with the bark on where he is, fronting IT, and wage there an Old French war for seven or seventy years, with Indians and Rangers, or whatever else may come between him and the reality, and save his scalp if he can.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd fi...nd swine? The world is a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »