Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summer... and wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure ...: buffoons,... improvisatori,... ballet-dancers,... musicians,... Beauty...,... wine. All these and security were within. Without was the "Red Death."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All those girls who wore the red shoes,... each boarded a train that would not stop. Stations flew by like suitors and would not stop. They all danced like trout on the hook. They were played with.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"So I wasn't dreaming, after all," she said to herself, "unless--unless we're all part of the same dream. Only I do hope it's my d...ream, and not the Red King's! I don't like belonging to another person's dream," she went on in a rather complaining tone: "I've a great mind to go and wake him, and see what happens!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country.... It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity, ... [ellipsis in original] it has by its nature a field of its own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh, the doxy over the dale,... Why then comes in the sweet o'the year, For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath--the beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same br...eath. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might ov...erwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light... Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »