Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of... the Law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Oh, let's go up the hill and scare ourselves, As reckless as the best of them tonight,... By setting fire to all the brush we piled With pitchy hands to wait for rain or snow...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thank God I'm over the hill. The only heat I have left comes from hot flashes, my promiscuity is confined to the words "one size f...its all," and I buy my white cotton unmentionables at Boadicea's Retreat, not Victoria's Secret. None of the things men do to women could possibly happen to me now unless the U.S. is invaded by one of those new Russian republics whose soldiers aren't fussy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded women. The...re is not one which has not made her subject to man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We were soon at the Aboljacarmegus Falls.... It seemed as if it needed only a little familiarity, and a little more skill, to navi...gate down such falls as Niagara itself with safety. At any rate, I should not despair of such men in the rapids above Table Rock, until I saw them actually go over the falls, so cool, so collected, so fertile in resources are they. One might have thought that these were falls, and that falls were not to be waded through with impunity, like a mud-puddle. There was really danger of their losing their sublimity in losing their power to harm us. Familiarity breeds contempt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along its causewa...y, and am, as it were, related to society by this link. The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here is the place; right over the hill Runs the path I took;... You can see the gap in the old wall still, And the stepping-stones in the shallow brook.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of ...correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »