Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows w...hat it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He gets red roses in different places, the head, that time he was as sleepy as a river,... the back, that time he was a broken scarecrow, the arm like a diamond had bitten it, the leg, twisted like a licorice stick....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,... And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch and not their terror.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now stamp the Lord's Prayer on a grain of rice, A Bible-leaved of all the written woods... Strip to this tree: a rocking alphabet, Genesis in the root, the scarecrow word, And one light's language in the book of trees.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »