Semi-Saracenic architecture, sustaining itself as if by miracle in mid air; glittering in the red sunlight with a hundred oriels, ...minarets, and pinnacles; and seeming the phantom handiwork, conjointly, of the Sylphs,... the Fairies,... the Genii, and ... the Gnomes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The other evening I was determined that I would silence this shallow din; that I would walk in various directions and see if there... was not to be found any depth of silence around. As Bonaparte sent out his horsemen in the Red Sea on all sides to find shallow water, so I sent forth my mounted thoughts to find deep water. I left the village and paddled up the river to Fair Haven Pond. As the sun went down, I saw a solitary boatman disporting on the smooth lake. The falling dews seemed to strain and purify the air, and I was smoothed with an infinite stillness. I got the world, as it were, by the nape of the neck, and held it under in the tide of its own events, till it was drowned, and then I let it go down-stream like a dead dog. Vast hollow chambers of silence stretched away on every side, and my being expanded in proportion, and filled them. Then first could I appreciate sound, and find it musical.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We follow where the Swamp Fox guides, His friends and merry men are we;... And when the troop of Tarleton rides, We burrow in the cypress tree. The turfy hammock is our bed, Our home is in the red deer's den, Our roof, the tree-top overhead, For we are wild and hunted men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summer... and wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh, the doxy over the dale,... Why then comes in the sweet o'the year, For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might ov...erwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The colored woman feels that woman's cause is one and universal; and that not till the image of God, whether in parian or ebony, i...s sacred and inviolable; not till race, color, sex and condition are seen as the accidents and not the substance of life ... [ellipsis in source] not till then is woman's lesson taught and woman's cause won--not the white woman's, nor the red woman's, but the cause of every man and every woman who has writhed silently under a mighty wrong. Woman's wrongs are thus indissolubly linked with all undefended woe, and the acquirement of her "rights" will mean the final triumph of all right over might, the supremacy of the moral force of reason, and justice, and love in the government of the nations of the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is merely a linguistic peculiarity, not a logical fact, that we say "that is red" instead of "that reddens," either in the sens...e of growing, becoming, red, or in the sense of making something else red.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man in the wilderness said to me, How many strawberries grow in the sea?... I answered him as I thought good, As many red herrings as grow in the wood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »