There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile, He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile:... He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived together in a little crooked house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man is murdered a mile away. And do you know what killed him? My name. The very name of Frankenstein burst his heart. And now th...e happy little villagers are clamoring for my blood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is sometimes called the City of Magnificent Distances, but it might with greater propriety be termed the City of Magnificent In...tentions.... Spacious avenues, that begin in nothing, and lead nowhere; streets, mile-long, that only want houses, roads, and inhabitants; public buildings that need but a public to be complete; and ornaments of great thoroughfares, which only lack great thoroughfares to ornament--are its leading features.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint My pilgrimages last mile; and my race... Idly, yet quickly runne, hath this last pace, My spans last inch, my minutes last point, And gluttonous death, will instantly unjoynt My body, and soule, and I shall sleepe a space,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporti...ng itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Telephone poles were matchsticks, put there to be snapped off at a whim. Dogs trotting across the road were suddenly big trucks. O...ld ladies turned into moving--vans. Everything was too bright, but very funny and made for my delight. And about half a mile from my long liquid breakfast I turned carefully down a side street and parked, and sat beaming happily through the tannic fog for about an hour, remembering how witty we all had been, how handsome and talented ... [ellipsis in original]LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »