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shafts
«I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| Keywords:
coldness, disgust, display, humiliated, humiliating, missed, restraint, shaft, shafting, shafts, temperamental, The Mark of, unavoidably, unduly
«If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will talk, they will gloat. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.»
«ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adj, detraction, detractions, illustrious, malice, shafting, shafts, suitably
«And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.»
«And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the same: / And six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof: / Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick.»
«She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
described, Her husband, ladies, occupation, reclaim, reclaimed, reclaiming, reclaims, shafting, shafts, trains
«The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
clause, cracking, disused, exploring, groping, imminent, nasty, shafting, shafts, shin, shinning, shins, subjunctive, subordinates, subordinate clause, timorous
«O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Archer, at random, break wind, random, shaft, shafting, shafts, soothe, The Archer, The Archers