Then he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling things there; and he said, "It is written, My house shall... be a house of prayer'; but you have made it a den of robbers."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What life is best? Courts are but only superficial schools... To dandle fools: The rural parts are turned into a den Of savage men: And where 's a city from all vice so free, But may be termed the worst of all the three?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O wert thou in the cauld blast, On yonder lea, on yonder lea,... My plaidie to the angry airt, I'd shelter thee, I'd shelter thee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Caracal lies on a shelf in its den in the Zoological Gardens quietly licking its fur. I go up and stand near it. It makes a fa...ce at me. I come a little nearer, it makes a worse face and raises itself up on its haunches. I stand and look. It jumps down from its shelf and makes as if it intended "going for" me. I move back; the Caracal has exerted a moral influence over me which I have been unable to resist. Moral influence means persuading another that one can make that other more uncomfortable than that other can make oneself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Good writing is always a breaking of the soil, clearing away prejudices, pulling up of sour weeds of crooked thinking, stripping t...he turf so as to get at what is fertile beneath. It would be amusing to carry the simile further. Those bulbs that flower in the sand and wither! The gay fiction annual that has to be planted again every year! Those experimental plants from Russia, France, and Greenwich Village that are always getting winter killed--confound 'em!--is it worth while planting them again? The stocky perennial that keeps coming up and coming up--so easy to grow and so ugly. Scarlet sage that gives a touch of fiery sin to the edge of the suburbanite's concrete walk! And then the good flowers--as honest as they are beautiful! The well-ordered gar den! The climbing rose that escapes and is the most beautiful of all!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nouns of number, or multitude, such as Mob, Parliament, Rabble, House of Commons, Regiment, Court of King's Bench, Den of Thieves,... and the like.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In his green den the murmuring seal Close by his sleek companion lies;... While singly we to bedward steal, And close in fruitless sleep our eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling ...den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The worst feature in the history of those years, is, that no man spake for the Indian. When the Dutch, or the French, or the Engli...sh royalist disagreed with the Colony, there was always found a Dutch or French, or tory party,--an earnest minority,--to keep things from extremity. But the Indian seemed to inspire such a feeling as the wild beast inspires in the people near his den. It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits, in February, 1676, which ended in their forcible expulsion from town.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »