Cold eyes ... steel grey, rather small, not unpleasant in good-humour, diabolic in a passion, but worst when a little suspicious; ...then they watch you as though you were a young rattle-snake, to be killed when convenient.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Predicament indeed, which thus discovers Honor among thieves Honor between lovers.... O such a little word is Honor, they feel! But the grey word is between them cold as steel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,... Steel-true and blade-straight The great artificer Made my mate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... women can never do efficient and general service in hospitals until their dress is prescribed by laws inexorable as those of t...he Medes and Persians. Then, that dress should be entirely destitute of steel, starch, whale-bone, flounces, and ornaments of all descriptions; should rest on the shoulders, have a skirt from the waist to the ankle, and a waist which leaves room for breathing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Paper is soft and ink is fluid; it might be better if some pages of this chronicle could be written on chips of granite at the poi...nt of steel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »