A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of... a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptac...le in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[They] hired a large house as a receptacle for gentlewomen, who either had no fortunes, or so little that it would not support the...m. For these they made the most comfortable institution [and] provided [them] with all conveniences for rural amusements, a library, musical instruments, and implements for various works.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oxford is--Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love on...e another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, fr...om a passing shape, from a spider's web.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty.... Here was every sensuous curve of... the "human figure divine" but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »