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“This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.”

Men Blood Glory Paid Heavy Reckoning

Book:The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain

“The only men who can turn my blood stream into a condition resembling heavy surf are good-looking heels with characters as intricately unpleasant as the sewers of Paris. With decent and honorable gents, I come all over Platonic. Was ever a woman so perverse and wrongheaded?”

Men Character Turns Blood Conditions Heavy Paris Streams Decent Heels Honorable Looking Good Surf Platonic Sewers Gents

Author:Margaret Halsey

“Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.”

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition

“The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh and earth turning into color, rocks into their crystals, water to sound, fire to form: life flickers uncounted into the supple arms of love.”

Earth Form Sound Water Born Fire Blood Rocks Color Arms Heavy Flesh Shoulders Sensuality Sensual Crystals Thighs Flicker Supple

Book:Out of silence: selected poems

Source: Out of silence: selected poems

“The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter's power.”

Ifs Mind Stills Light Able Turns Heaven Water Powerful Magic Blood Rocks Red Gold Blue Green Heavy Invention Grass Faculty Yellow Grey Adjectives Heavy Things

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!”

Political Literature Nations Liberty Fate Blood Demand Taxes Heavy

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Who are you?' Mo looked at the White Women. Then he looked at Dustfinger's still face. Guess.' The bird ruffled up its golden feathers, and Mo saw that the mark on its breast was blood. You are Death.' Mo felt the word heavy on his tongue. Could any word be heavier?”

Stills Faces Felt White Saws Blood Bird Mark Heavy Tongue Golden Breasts Feathers Dustfinger

Book:Inkdeath

Source: Inkdeath