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“I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.”

Left Sea Horse Knees Upside Down Birthmarks

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine to the Jordan. "In the temple of Solomon," wrote the ecstatic cleric Raimundus de Agiles, "one rode in blood up to the knees and even to the horses" bridles, by the just and marvelous judgment of God.”

Way Firsts Two Blood Atheism Thousand Judgment Horse Jew Positive Atheism Miles Knees Temples Marvelous Jordan Ecstatic Crusades Solomon Thousand Miles

Author:Herbert J. Muller

“A golf ball is white, dimpled like a bishop's knees, and is the size of small mandarin oranges or those huge pills which vets blow down the throats of constipated cart-horses.”

White Huge Balls Horse Golf Size Blow Knees Throat Orange Pills Bishops Carts Vets Golf Ball

Author:Frank Muir

“If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.”

Ifs Firsts Government Trouble Horse Knees Joints Stood Up

Author:Peter Drucker

“What is to become of an independent statesman, one who will bow the knee to no idol, who will worship nothing as a divinity but truth, virtue, and his country? I will tell you; he will be regarded more by posterity than those who worship hounds and horses; and although he will not make his own fortune, he will make the fortune of his country.”

Country Virtue Worship Horse Independent Fortune Knees Divinity Idols Bows Posterity Statesmen Hounds

Book:Works: with a life of the author

Source: Works: with a life of the author

“She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else”

Different Wanted Born Dog Figures Color Speech Cat Horse Tired Knees Bees Pajamas Slang Different Colors Figures Of Speech

Book:Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

“Isn't that someone we know?" asked Horace. He pointed to where a cloaked figure sat by the side of the road a few hundred meters away, arms wrapped around his knees. Close by him, a small shaggy horse cropped the grass growing at the edge of the drainage ditch that ran beside the road. "So it is," Halt replied. "And he seems to have brought Will with him.”

Knows Seems Sides Growing Figures Arms Hundred Horse Edges Grass Knees Ran Sat Halt Meter Grass Growing Drainage

Author:John Flanagan

“What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.”

Past Faces Felt Creatures Shots Ears Horse Faster Knees Stride Greyhounds

Book:The Napoleonic Trilogy

Source: The Napoleonic Trilogy

“War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been injured by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in filthy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorsa for the son she has given.”

“A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and to press in his arms the most desirable of their women.”

Men Has Beens Enemy Break Arms Horse Presses Knees Anarchy Desirable Weeping Heresy

Author:Genghis Khan