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“Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?”

Used Hair Gold Dear Brushes Bosoms

Author:Robert Browning

“Gold and silver grow, and so does every other kind of metal, the same as the hair upon my head, or the wheat in the field; they do not grow as fast, but they are all the time composing or decomposing”

Kind Doe Grows Fields Hair Gold Silver Metals Wheat Composing Gold And Silver

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“Some days my thoughts are just cocoons -- all cold, and dull, and blind, They hang from dripping branches in the grey woods of my mind; And other days they drift and shine -- such free and flying things! I find the gold-dust in my hair, left by their brushing wings.”

Mind Left Hair Cold Gold Blind Wings Shining Woods Flying Dust Branches Dull Grey My Thoughts Of My Mind Dripping Cocoons Brushing Gold Dust

Book:Dreamers on Horseback: (collected Verse)

Source: Dreamers on Horseback: (collected Verse)

“A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year's Eve and an orchid in your hair; a flower is a single geranium blooming in a tin can on a murky city fire-escape; an acre of roses at the Botanical Gardens; and the first gold crocus of spring! ... a flower is a birth, a wedding, a leaving of this life.”

Years Firsts Cities Fire Flower Hair Birth Spring Garden Gold Rose Leaving Chains This Life New Year Valentine Daisies New Years Eve Acres Tin Blooming Orchids Fire Escapes Tin Cans Crocuses

Author:Jean Hersey

“In their censures of luxury the fathers are extremely minute and circumstantial; and among the various articles which excite their pious indignation, we may enumerate false hair, garments of any colour except white, instruments of music, vases of gold or silver, downy pillows, white bread, foreign wines, public salutations, the use of warm baths, and the practice of shaving the beard, which, according to Tertullian, is a lie against our own faces, and am impious attempt to improve the works of the Creator.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.”

Earth Principles Modern Hair Birth Holy Gold Investing Incarnation Modern Society Holy Grail Bowels

Book:Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

“And I want women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes. For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do.”

Way Want Should Attention Hair Clothes Draws Gold Claims Good Things Appearance Attractive Decent Expensive Appropriate Clothings Devoted Modest Pearls I Want A Woman Expensive Clothes

Author:Paul the Apostle

“Morning found us unaware, noon burn gold into our hair, at night we swim the laughin sea, where will we be?”

Life Night Found Morning Sea Hair Gold Swim Noon

Author:Jim Morrison

“May you find in the nectar of life, the sweetness of hope in your heart, feel the comfort of song birds in your soul, the grace of new wind in your wings. Color you sprirt with rainbows and shower gold dust in your hair. Time heals. Life renews. Dreams take flight agian. close you eyes and drink it all in.”

Feels Heart May Soul Dream Eye Song Grace Color Wind Hair Drink Comfort Bird Gold Wings Heal Flight Dust Your Soul Rainbow Showers Sweetness Nectar Time Heals Gold Dust

Author:Laurel Burch

“The eyes were hollow and the carven head was broken, but about the high, stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. A trailing plant with flowers like white stars had bound itself across the brows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed. "They cannot conquer for ever!" said Frodo.”

Ifs Said Eye Stars White Flower Hair Broken Kings Gold Plant Bounds Conquer Fallen Silver Yellow Reverence Hollow Foreheads Brows Frodo Crevice

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown”

Hair Gold Mood Brown Bad Mood Good Mood Chestnuts

Book:The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“Ash, ash —- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing there—— A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold filling. Herr God, Herr Lucifer Beware Beware. Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air.”

Men Air Hair Red Gold Bones Flesh Rings Cake Ashes Filling Soap Lucifer Poke Red Hair Wedding Ring

Author:Sylvia Plath

“On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.”

Hands Hair Moon Gold Feathers Spoons Rubies

Book:Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches

Source: Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches

“He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.”

Men Humans Dark Dangerous Hair Hero Gold Brave Flaws My Hero

Author:Nora Roberts

“Arthur, with his keen blue eyes and hair of burnished gold, his ready smile and guileless countenance. Wide and heavy of shoulder, long of limb, he towers above other men and, though he does not yet know the power of his stature, he is aware that smaller men become uneasy near him. He is handsomely knit in all; fair to look upon.”

Knows Men Looks Long Doe Eye Ready Hair Fairs Gold Blue Heavy Wide Shoulders Towers Limbs Blue Eyes Countenance Arthur Uneasy Stature

Author:Stephen R. Lawhead

“I remember once walking out hand in hand with a boy I knew, and it was summer, and suddenly before us was a field of gold. Gold as far as you could see. We knew we'd be rich forever. We filled our pockets and our hair. We were rolled in gold. We ran through the field laughing and our legs and feet were coated in yellow dust, so that we were like golden statues or golden gods. He kissed my feet, the boy I was with, and when he smiled, he had a gold tooth. It was only a field of buttercups, but we were young.”

“A sister they had, Galadriel, most beautiful of all the house of Finwë; her hair was lit with gold as though it had caught in a mesh the radiance of Laurelin.”

Beautiful House Hair Gold Caught Lit Radiance Mesh Galadriel

Book:The Silmarillion

Source: The Silmarillion

“The woman turned and went slowly into the house. As she passed the doors she turned and looked back. Grave and thoughtful was her glance, as she looked on the king with cool pity in here eyes. Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold. Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.”

Source: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings

“On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel... Very tall they were, and the Lady no less tall than the Lord; and they were grave and beautiful. They were clad wholly in white; and the hair of the Lady was of deep gold, and the hair of the Lord Celeborn was of silver long and bright; but no sign of age was upon them, unless it were in the depths of their eyes; for these were keen as lances in the starlight, and yet profound, the wells of deep memory.”

Wells Long Two Eye Age Beautiful Sides Memories White Lord Tree Hair Gold Profound Depth Graves Sat Chairs Silver Tall Starlight Galadriel

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“But the person who stepped out of the front door was tall and thin, with short, spiky dark hair. he was wearing a gold mesh vest and a pair of silk pajama pants. He regarded Clary with mild interest, puffing gently on a fantastically large pipe as he did so. Though he looked nothing at all like a Viking, he was instantly and totally familiar. Magnus Bane”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“When is your birthday?” (…) Wide silver-gold eyes swung to him. “You don’t know?” “No.” Pouting, she twirled a strand of her hair. “How can you not know?” “Do you know mine?” he asked. “Of course I do. It’s the day you met me.”

Knows Eye Courses Mines Hair Mets Gold Wide Silver Do You Know Strands Pouting

Author:Gena Showalter

“Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of ash blonde and gold. Her eyes were bright, big, clear, wet and shining, the colour of her cheeks was real, breaking close to the surface from the strong young pump of her heart. Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood -- she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.”

Heart Stills Real Body Bigs Eye Lasts Young Strong Clear Childhood Hair Fine Gold Shining Wave Edges Surface Colour Cheeks Wet Ashes Her Eyes Shields Dew Foreheads Eighteen Blonde Pumps

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She wore white heirloom lace about her throat And in her hair a bright golden feather A pearl like a plum hung ripe from her neck But her smile fetched ten gold together”

Together White Hair Ten Gold Golden Necks Throat Hung Pearls Feathers Ripe Lace Plums Her Smile Heirlooms

Book:Princess Academy: Palace of Stone

Source: Princess Academy: Palace of Stone

“The key to looking great in the evening is to look original. Try to look different from others without looking out of place. When everyone else is wearing black, stand out in a bold, bright color. When everyone else is wearing dress that falls to the floor, shock them with a short gold brocade suit. But try not to overdo it. Focus on one thing: Will it be a statement neckclace, a stunning pair of earrings, or really big hair? You decide.”

“Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. New-made friendships, like new wine, Age will mellow and refine. Friendships that have stood the test - Time and change - are surely best; Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay. For 'mid old friends, tried and true, Once more we our youth renew. But old friends, alas! may die, New friends must their place supply. Cherish friendship in your breast- New is good, but old is best; Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.”

“Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure; And spring comes green again to trees and grasses Where petals have been shed like tears And lonely birds have sung their grief. ...After the war-fires of three months, One message from home is worth a ton of gold. ...I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin To hold the hairpins any more.”

May Has Beens War Country Home Three White Grief Fire Tree Tears Hair Months Messages Spring Bird Rivers Lonely Gold Green Endure Hills Grass Shed Strokes Three Months Petals White Hair

Author:Du Fu