If, in all the cities, every house that is past repairing could be pulled down or burned up, how great would be the crash, how hea...ven-high the conflagration. It would be a veritable crack of Doom and glare of the Judgment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the consequence of this institution that not a school- house, a public pew, a bridge, a pound, a mill-dam, hath been set up,... or pulled down, or altered, or bought, or sold, without the whole population of this town having a voice in the affair. A general contentment is the result. And the people truly feel that they are lords of the soil. In every winding road, in every stone fence, in the smokes of the poor-house chimney, in the clock on the church, they read their own power, and consider, at leisure, the wisdom and error of their judgments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you're tall, thin, blond, and have big boobs, you can have any job you want. ... ultimately, it all settled into a runni...ng soap opera, with new episodes on the same theme every week. Barbara and Peter. Episode 13 of the Barbara is Uninhibited and Peter is a Drag Show: this week Barbara and Peter went to a party and Barbara pulled down her pants and mooned the guests and Peter was furious. Joanna and Dave, Episode 19 of the Will Joanna Ever Get Dave to Share the Household Duties Show: this week Joanna refused to get out of bed and change the channel and Dave hit her and she threatened to kill herself. Claire and Herbie in the Claire has Sexual Boredom but Loves Her Husband Show: this week a man in the office Claire has the hots for put his hand on her leg while they were having a drink at P. J. Clarke's, but it was time to go home and feed the children and she never did find out whether it was significant or an accident.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there.... Squares af...ter squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thank Heaven, here is not all the world. The buckeye does not grow in New England, and the mockingbird is rarely heard here. The w...ild goose is more of a cosmopolite than we; he breaks his fast in Canada, takes a luncheon in the Ohio, and plumes himself for the night in a southern bayou. Even the bison, to some extent, keeps pace with the seasons, cropping the pastures of the Colorado only till a greener and sweeter grass awaits him by the Yellowstone. Yet we think that if rail fences are pulled down, and stone walls piled up on our farms, bounds are henceforth set to our lives and our fates decided. If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal fire nevertheless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Off Highway 106 At Cherrylog Road I entered... The '34 Ford without wheels, Smothered in kudzu, With a seat pulled out to run Corn whiskey down from the hills,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is a slum?... it is something that mostly exists in the imaginations of middle-class do-gooders and bureaucrats: people who d...o not have to live in them in the first place and do not have to live in what they put up afterwards once they have pulled them all down. One person's slum is another person's community.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now William pulled the lever down, And click-clack went the printing-press.... William was the only printer in town Who had peeped while the angels undress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once in this wine the summer blood Knocked in the flesh that decked the vine,... Once in this bread The oat was merry in the wind; Man broke the sun, pulled the wind down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »