After the brief bivouac of Sunday, their eyes, in the forced march of Monday to Saturday,... hoist the white flag, flutter in the snow storm of paper,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't know a great deal about life in Washington for women--I spent a summer there once working in the White House, and my main ...memories of the experience have to do with a very bad permanent wave I have always been convinced kept me from having a meaningful relationship with President Kennedy ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Speaking of contraries, see how the brook In that white wave runs counter to itself.... It is from that in water we were from Long, long before we were from any creature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
(The black stream, catching on a sunken rock, Flung backward on itself in one white wave,... And the white water rode the black forever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Justice" was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Ãâ schylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the d'Urber...ville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on. The EndLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave;... Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow--red, yellow, brown, black and white--and we're all precious in God's... sight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O! say can you see by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,... Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there; O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »