All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much mo...re intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumbler and begin to poke around for rumours of another Messiah.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In those days, the blag slag, the waste of the coal pits, had only begun to cover the side of our hill. Not enough to mar the coun...tryside nor blacken the beauty of our village. For the colliery had only begun to poke its skinny black fingers between the green.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He looked like a man with a foot in the grave and scarcely the strength of a louse,... Yet he tilted a poke of dust on the bar, and he called for drinks for the house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I drink the five o'clock martinis and poke at this dry page like a rough... goat. Fool! I fumble my lost childhood for a mother and lounge in sad stuff with love to catch and catch as catch can.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks to our blood.... ...What a perfect maturity it arrives at! It is the emblem of a successful life concluded by a death not premature, which is an ornament to Nature. What if we were to mature as perfectly, root and branch, glowing in the midst of our decay, like the poke!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a f...ortune at hand, will fail to do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I looked so much like a guy you couldn't tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys' clothes, I walked like a guy ...... [ellipsis in source] I didn't do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »