In the game of "Whist for two," usually called "Correspondence," the lady plays what card she likes: the gentleman simply follows ...suit. If she leads with "Queen of Diamonds," however, he may, if he likes, offer the "Ace of Hearts": and, if she plays "Queen of Hearts," and he happens to have no Heart left, he usually plays "Knave of Clubs."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O ship white-sailed of Crete,... you brought my mistress from her quiet palace through breaker and crash of surf to love-rite of unhappiness!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
SWEENEY: Nothing to eat but the fruit as it grows.... Nothing to see but the palmtrees one way And the sea the other way, Nothing to hear but the sound of the surf. Nothing at all but three things DORIS: What things? SWEENEY: Birth, and copulation, and death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not object to Gladstone's always having the ace of trumps up his sleeve, but only to his pretence that God had put it there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Will you greet your doom As final; set him loaves and wine; knowing... The game is finished when he plays his ace, And overturn the table and go into the next room?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fa...ll but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced.... Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year--and therefore did.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, an...d the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »