I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of whic...h they never take anything the wrong way that they know to stem from good, honest and loyal hearts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Their empty victual-wagons up the street Over the bridge dreadfully sound and sway;... Their eyes, as hanged men's, turning the wrong way; And nothing on their backs, or heads, or feet. One sees the ribs and all the skeletons Of their gaunt horses; and a sorry sight Are the torn saddles, crammed with straw and stones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have placed slippers very carefully under my bed, only to have them crawl out during the night to a position where I will step i...nto them the wrong way round when leaping out of bed to answer the telephone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He did not go to the college called Harvard, good old Alma Mater as she is. He was not fed on the pap that is there furnished.... ...But he went to the great university of the West, where he sedulously pursued the study of Liberty, for which he had early betrayed a fondness, and having taken many degrees, he finally commenced the public practice of Humanity in Kansas, as you all know. Such were his humanities, and not any study of grammar. He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His reversed body gracefully curved, his brown legs hoisted like a Tarentine sail, his joined ankles tacking, Van gripped with spl...ayed hands the brow of gravity, and moved to and fro, veering and sidestepping, opening his mouth the wrong way, and blinking in the odd bilboquet fashion peculiar to eyelids in his abnormal position. Even more extraordinary than the variety and velocity of the movements he made in imitation of animal hind legs was the effortlessness of his stance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Take the instant way, For honor travels in a strait so narrow,... Where one but goes abreast. Keep then the path, For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue. If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an entered tide, they all rush by And leave you hindmost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »