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uncles years fiction
IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction. Carl Clinton Van Doren
uncles taken people
In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make use of. Now that she had Uncle Andrew, she took no notice of Digory. I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical. C. S. Lewis
uncles believe gold
And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it! Charles Dickens
uncles dark past
They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let loose. Still the noise of pursuit grew louder, and still my uncle could hear the young lady wildly screaming, "Faster! Faster!"
uncles mean merry-christmas
Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.
uncles brain brass
You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.
uncles air gentleman
My uncle, gentlemen, could say nothing; he was so very much astonished The queerest thing of all, was, that although there was such a crowd of persons, and although fresh faces were pouring in, every moment, there was no telling where they came from. They seemed to start up, in some strange manner, from the ground, or the air, and disappear in the same way.
uncles heart dark
Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.
uncles lying done
When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to. Brian Eno
stupid parent dyslexia
Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us. Carre Otis
stupid comedian sophisticated
What I say is stupid. Who takes a comedian seriously? I'm doing sophisticated knock-knock jokes. Carlos Mencia
stupid people world
The problem with the world is there's too many stupid people and nobody to eat them.
stupid culture firsts
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal. Carl Bernstein
stupid film made
I just didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me. Agnes Varda
stupid strategy should
No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming. Charles E. Wilson
stupid dull-life people
Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives. Charles de Lint
stupidity would-be fraud
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. Charles Caleb Colton
stupid painful difficult
When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid. Ricky Gervais
eggs doors wife
The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her spectacles lay on her apron'd knees... Charles Stuart Calverley
eggs lay mostly
We use it mostly for perch. They lay their eggs on the trees. J. J. Johnson
eggs bricks bad-mood
Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks. David Mitchell
eggs
An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome. Jane Austen
eggs white evil
The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God. Charles Spurgeon
eggs swim golden
Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know. Chogyam Trungpa
eggs far found human looking number presented research science
We are looking into how many human eggs were used in his research, but so far we have found that the number of eggs exceeds the ones presented in the Science paper. Roe Hye
eggs nest saying
We have a saying in China. When a nest is overturned, no eggs go unbroken.
eggs people wake-up
When you consider the many ways in which people have to make a living every day when they wake up, I figure that eating 20 eggs isn't that bad. Casey Affleck