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“For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit?s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit?s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.”

Long Stills Feet Horse Luck Bones Pockets Long Ago Worn Rabbits Fur Polished Claws Chestnuts

Book:Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

“For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses, roots of pine trees pushed through the pale curves of your ribs, yellow blossoms flourished above you in autumn, and in winter frost heaved your bones in the ground--old toilers, soil makers: O Roger, Mackerel, Riley, Ned, Nellie, Chester, Lady Ghost.”

Years Past Names Tree Hundred Roots Horse Winter Bones Ghost Soil Fifty Autumn Makers Yellow Pale Curves Roger Frost Ribs Pastures Pine Trees Mackerel

Book:Old and New Poems: Donald Hall

Source: Old and New Poems: Donald Hall

“Gamaun is a dainty steed, Strong, black, and of a noble breed, Full of fire, and full of bone, With all his line of fathers known; Fine his nose, his nostrils thin, But blown abroad by the pride within; His mane is like a river flowing, And his eyes like embers glowing In the darkness of the night, And his pace as swift as light.”

Light Eye Night Father Strong Black Lines Known Darkness Fire Pride Fine Rivers Horse Bones Noble Noses His Eyes Pace Glowing Embers Dainty

Author:Bryan Procter

“The night is quiet. Like a camp before battle. The city beset by a thing unknown and will it come from forest or sea? The murengers have walled the pale, the gates are shut, but lo the thing's inside and can you guess his shape? Where he's kept or what's the counter of his face? Is he a weaver, bloody shuttle shot through a time warp, a carder of souls from the world's nap? Or a hunter with hounds or do bone horses draw his dead cart through the streets and does he call his trade to each? Dear friend he is not to be dwelt upon for it is by just such wise that he's invited in”

World Doe Soul Faces Night Cities Wise Sea Streets Battle Shapes Quiet Draws Shots Horse Trade Dear Bones Forests Gates Camps Pale Bloody Hunters Invited Naps Carts Dear Friend Hounds Warp Weavers

Book:Suttree

Source: Suttree

“Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.”

Way Hard Stars Path Horse Bones Poetry Is Bloody Arithmetic Matched Hard Way Foam Knuckles

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.”

War Stories Universal Horse Bones Love Story War Horse

Author:Steven Spielberg

“I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I have but the sound of my scythe when it harvests, my whistling arrows, my galloping horse. Always the sound of the same wave eating away at the world”

World Sound Brother Eating Angel Horse Wave Bones Ruins Demon Companion Harvest Arrows Whistling Galloping Scythes Galloping Horses

Book:Early Writings

Source: Early Writings

“You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my head for the folly of a bad king and those who wanted his throne. I lived through a blizzard that froze every other living creature solid. Against those things, you're only a man. I can deal with you.”

Knows Men I Can Wanted Deals Saws Kings Higher Creatures Horse Bones Folly Thrones Living Creatures Blizzard Sandstorms

Book:Lioness Rampant

Source: Lioness Rampant

“Forelimbs of people, porpoises, bats and horses provide the classic example of homology in most textbooks. They look different, and do different things, but are built of the same bones. No engineer, starting from scratch each time, would have built such disparate structures from the same parts.”

People Looks Different Time Example Evolution Built Horse Structure Starting Bones Classic Different Things Engineers Bats Scratches Textbooks Porpoises

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“There's always [on women's magazines] that great photo of the actress or model lifting up her shirt just to show you the bone structure and the six-pack of her own. It's almost like when horses are auctioned and they show you their teeth. 'Am I good enough?'”

Enough Shows Six Models Horse Structure Bones Actresses Teeth Magazines Shirts Good Enough Packs Lifting Lifting Up Six Packs

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.”

Political Politics Politician Horse Bones

Author:Wendell Phillips

“But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian Blue.”

Knows Made Might Beautiful Horse Blue Bones

Author:Joy Williams