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wind roots tree
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop. Charlotte Bronte
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. Charles Caleb Colton
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me. Charles Dickens
wind rising sawdust
It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."
wind east now-and-then
The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.
wind darkness woods
I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.) Bret Easton Ellis
wind skins mortality
We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality. Djuna Barnes
wind hair passionate
I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair. Dave Gorman
window tapping
Someone was tapping on the window. Dave Barry
sailing levels phrases
He's a boating enthusiast, although that phrase seems too weak to describe the level of his interest, kind of like describing someone as a heroin fancier.
sailing boat holes
You have to be careful on the deck, because of the "hatches," which are holes placed around a sailboat at random to increase the insurance rates.
sailing earth flight
Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.
sailing
We're still sailing right now. We've done nothing yet. Verron Haynes
sailed thailand tribe
I sailed around Europe and lived with the Karen tribe in Thailand for a month.
sailing world interest
I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so. Edward Heath
sailing care soap
Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make. Elizabeth Bishop
sail sort
We've got the spinnaker up, but the sail is sort of flapping at the moment,
sailed
When Murkowski sailed into office, everything went to hell.
knows ready
We have to get him ready so he knows how to prepare. Ozzie Guillen
knows hideous jane
Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.
knows self-examination
He who knows himself knows others.
knows written
I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.
knows ifs
You don't have to act as if you know what you're doing Brian Eno
knows repeats courses
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.
knows fronts
When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you. Brent Weeks
knows open stop time
We know each other so well. We try to open it up, but every time I try to do something, he knows how to stop it.
knows
We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely. David Mitchell