It is told that some divorcees, elated by their freedom, pause on leaving the courthouse to kiss a front pillar, or even walk to t...he Truckee to hurl their wedding rings into the river; but boys who recover the rings declare they are of the dime-store variety, and accuse the throwers of fraudulent practices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The vines of her arms didn't cling to the ends of his clothes,... or did she plant herself in the doorway, hurl herself at his feet, or utter the word "Stay!" But as that fool began to go at the time when it was dark with swarming clouds, the slim girl blocked her lover's way with only a rising river made with her flood of tears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, consolidates it with book learning..., theoretically legitimizes the traditional trash and trains the children to know without understanding and to accept denominations for definitions. Astray in his conceptions, entangled in words, man loses the flair for truth, the taste for nature. What a powerful intellect must you possess, to be suspicious of this moral carbon dioxide and with your head swimming already, to hurl yourself out of it into the fresh air, with which, into the bargain, everyone round is trying to scare you!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing ...in existence and hurl themselves upon it.... Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest ligh...t cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with Arapaho, Apache with Cheyenne. All chant of war. War to drive the white man forever from the red man's hunting ground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lock in! Be alert, my acrobat and I will be soft wood and you the nail... and we will make fiery ovens for Jack Sprat and you will hurl yourself into my tiny jail and we will take a supper together and that will be that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »