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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." Charles Dickens
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. Charles Dickens
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
butlers
Anything else, Butler?" "The cosh, sir. Eoin Colfer
crisis minister moved prime solve step
We have moved only one step forward, how could we retreat? To solve this crisis, the prime minister must resign. Chamlong Srimuang
crisis
When he first went down, it didn't look good. So a crisis averted, I guess. Doug Armstrong
crisis everybody exactly faced knows likes musical nobody sisters
The Pointer Sisters have always faced a crisis in their identity. They have dabbled in so many musical streams that, while everybody likes them, nobody knows exactly what to do with them. Washington Post
crisis housing reason severe
We're in a severe housing crisis, and there's no reason for it. We've got the resources, we just need to appropriate them. Jamie Ross
crisis people situation turned
We're in a real crisis situation where many times people are being turned away at the door. Jackie Robinson
crisis critical heading public question
We're heading into a crisis. It's got to be a critical question for public policy. Bruce Nissen
crisis readiness
This readiness crisis didn't come out of nowhere. You and your predecessors presided over it. Bob Smith
crisis
We don't get offered crises, they arrive. Elizabeth Janeway
crisis facilities falling start
We're getting to a crisis point. Facilities will start falling apart. R. Robinson