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eye home dark
Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world. Charles Dickens
eye numbers envy
As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance. Charles Caleb Colton
eye sight sore-eyes
the sight of me is good for sore eyes
eye men thinking
I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.
eye hands evil
But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless.
eye hypocrisy shining
[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
eye mad black
An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.
eye light skins
With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.
eye thoughtful great-expectations
She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
puff work
I always wanted my work to speak for itself, and have opportunities to do interesting work and not just puff pieces. Amanda Fuller
puff littles peter
I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves. Busy Philipps
puff spirit sail
Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff. Annie Dillard
puff hitchhiking logic
Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. Douglas Adams
puff sin reason
One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake. Billy Sunday
puff bikinis thongs
It feels like I could go outside with a bikini thong on right now. Puff Daddy
puff peppers flattery
Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. Oliver Goldsmith
puff stories outcomes
The short story is not as restrictive as the sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded. ...at the end there has to be the literary equivalent of the magician's puff of smoke, an outcome that is both startling and anticipated. Louis Menand
dozen littles imagine
Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened. Arthur C. Clarke
dozen half six
Six of one, half dozen of another. Oh, well, half of one, six dozen of the other. Joe Garagiola
dozens employers four mainly offenders report sex states talking
We are talking dozens and dozens of sex offenders - mainly from just four states that report the employers names. Phil Williams
dozen enjoys fact few night people reminder street thursday
The people in the street -- a few dozen on Thursday night -- are a reminder of the fact that Milosevic still enjoys substantial support,
dozens expensive pairs
I lost dozens of pairs of expensive glasses because I'd put them down and then not be able to find them again. Bonnie Tyler
dozens literary nature rather second
I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature. Rick Perlstein
dozen govern managers prosperous republic undergoing united war wink
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name. Gore Vidal
dozen psychotic themselves
The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief. Nicola Griffith
dozen heard maybe people proposal
The proposal has been panned by everyone I've heard comment. There have been maybe a dozen people in all.