Hunger makes you restless. You dream about food--not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe...-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He will watch you while you work, and always has a good word to say or a quip to snap at you to keep you cheered up, but when it c...omes to taking off his coat and lending a hand,... he is an Oriental incense-holder on the guest-room mantle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many of us carry memories of an influential teacher who may scarcely know we existed, yet who said something at just the right tim...e in our lives to snap a whole world into focus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of the snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jump...ers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda,--these are in the system, and our habits like theirs. You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity, expensive races,--race living at the expense of race.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The basis of political economy is non-interference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. ...Do not legislate. Meddle, and you snap the sinews with your sumptuary laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Isn't Hollywood a dump--in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of t...he human spirit at a new low of debasement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the invasion, she nags us the who...le day long about the bad weather. It really would be nice to dump her in a bucket of cold water and put her up in the loft.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"... It's a day's work To empty one house of all household goods... And fill another with 'em fifteen miles away, Although you do no more than dump them down."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Initially, between the trees, he caught sight of whirling, jumping bodies. Heya-hey-heya. Someone climbing. Rocks pitched after a ...board; and on the river, tilting patches of reflection. Heya-fulla-heya-heya. Boys were sliding down the bank on their buttocks, roughing the scaly sand. They sailed a can lid on the water where at first it turned, floating, then sank, burning like a mirror. Hiyah-smilah. Hee-mee? Coltch. Skirts rose slowly, slowly subsided. A parasol flew open with a snap. Or-rawk. Gah. Houf. Half buried in the shingle, a deep red brick was then awash. Yo-yo giggy. Teetoo Sheek? Num! Lissa-lissa. A willow leaned out, trailing its leaves in the water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »