I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, "I will tell you a story," and then... he passes the hat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The logical English train a scholar as they train an engineer. Oxford is Greek factory, as Wilton mills weave carpet, and Sheffiel...d grinds steel. They know the use of a tutor, as they know the use of a horse; and they draw the greatest amount of benefit from both. The reading men are kept by hard walking, hard riding, and measured eating and drinking, at the top of their condition, and two days before the examination, do not work but lounge, ride, or run, to be fresh on the college doomsday.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On every tree a bucket with a lid, And on black ground a bear-skin rug of snow.... The sparks made no attempt to be the moon. They were content to figure in the trees As Leo, Orion, and the Pleiades. And that was what the boughs were full of soon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Three factors--the belief that child care is female work, the failure of ex-husbands to support their children, and higher male wa...ges at work--have taken the economic rug from under that half of married women who divorce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An orange on the table, Your dress on the rug,... And you in my bed, Sweet present of the present, Cool of night, Warmth of my life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair,... And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Notwithstanding the universal barrenness, and the contiguity of the desert, I never saw an autumnal landscape so beautifully paint...ed as this was. It was like the richest rug imaginable spread over an uneven surface; no damask nor velvet, nor Tyrian dye or stuffs, nor the work of any loom, could ever match it. There was the incredibly bright red of the huckleberry, and the reddish brown of the bayberry, mingled with the bright and living green of small pitch pines, and also the duller green of the bayberry, boxberry, and plum, the yellowish green of the shrub oaks, and the various golden and yellow and fawn-colored tints of the birch and maple and aspen, each making its own figure, and, in the midst, the few yellow sand-slides on the sides of the hills looked like the white floor seen through rents in the rug. Coming from the country as I did, and many autumnal woods I had seen, this was perhaps the most novel and remarkable sight that I saw on the Cape. Probably the brightness of the tints was enhanced by contrast with the sand which surrounded this tract.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy beha...vior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »