"... You could sit there with the stains on your shoes Of the fresh earth from your own baby's grave... And talk about your everyday concerns. You had stood the spade up against the wall Outside there in the entry, for I saw it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When all this is over, you know what I'm going to do? I'm gonna get married, gonna have about six kids. I'll line 'em up against t...he wall and tell them what it was like here in Burma. If they don't cry, I'll beat the hell out of 'em.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, to have a little house! To own the hearth and stool and all!... The heaped-up sods upon the fire, The pile of turf against the wall!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so;... and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again and look with terror at the wall, until one day he begins afresh to beat his head against it; and once again he will faint. And so on endlessly and without hope. One day he will wake up on the other side of the wall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never knew anyone yet who got up at six who did anything more useful between that time and breakfast than banging a tennis ball ...up against the side of the house, waiting for the more civilized members of the party to get up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean.... Mists gather here, and sea fog, and eerie stories. That's not because there are more ghosts here than in other places, mind you. It's just that people who live hereabouts are strangely aware of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We all went to church, about three mile, everybody a-horseback. The men took their guns along, so did Buck, and kept them between ...their knees or stood them handy against the wall. The Shepherdson's done the same. It was pretty ornery preaching--all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybody said it was a good sermon, and they all talked it over going home, and had such a powerful lot to say about faith, and good works, and free grace, and preforeordestination, and I don't know what all, that it did seem to me to be one of the roughest Sundays I had run across yet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Protestant parents still keep a Bible handy in the house, so that the children can study it, and one of the first things the littl...e boys and girls learn is to be righteous and holy and not piss against the wall. They study those passages more than they study any others, except those which incite to masturbation. Those they hunt out and study in private.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"If I hit him, he'll hit me too," Anton Petrovich thought in a flash. He pulled off the glove with a final yank and threw it awkwa...rdly at Berg. The glove slapped against the wall and dropped into the washstand pitcher. "Good shot," said Berg.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »