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“Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair.”

Stills Stars Silence Sadness Healthy Quiet Stones Breaths Rounds Sat Gray Noon Fiery Shady Saturn

Author:John Keats

“Some questions cannot be answered. They become familiar weights in the hand, round stones pulled from the pocket, unyielding and cool.”

Hands Stones Weight Rounds Familiar Pockets Unyielding

Book:Of Gravity & Angels

Source: Of Gravity & Angels

“Oh how will crime engender crime! throw guilt Upon the soul, and like a stone cast on The troubled waters of a lake, 'Twill form in circles round succeeding round; Each wider than the first.”

Firsts Soul Form Water Crime Succeed Stones Guilt Rounds Casts Circles Lakes Troubled Waters

Author:George Colman the Elder

“Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.”

Source: Charles Dickens: The Complete Christmas Novels & Tales (Illustrated): 30 Classics in One Volume: A Christmas Carol, The Battle of Life, The Chimes, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree, Doctor Marigold, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations and more

“And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.”

Source: Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales

“My grandmother's feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother...first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty feet long round her feet, bending all the toes except the big toe inward and under the sole. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch.”

Years Firsts Long Two Bigs Mother White Pieces Feet Stones Twenties Bounds Rounds China Wounds Crush Grandmother Two Years Sole Inward Toes My Grandmother Arches Bending Two Year Olds

Author:Jung Chang

“Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.”

Should Years Wells Made Said House Lord Ought Stones Should Have Rounds Legs Noble Noses Nonsense Pigs Castles Provinces Pork Spectacles Best House

Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.”

I Can Love Is Stones Bottom Rounds Necks Tied Love Is Like

Book:The Cherry Orchard

Source: The Cherry Orchard

“Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.”

Persons Doe Water Class Middle Flow Stones Rounds Prosperity Middle Class Cash Smooth

Author:Neal Stephenson

“Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.”

Humans Eye Objects Stones Balls Rounds Globes Marvelous Traveler Crystals Seers Human Eyes Teapots Crystal Ball

Book:The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel

Source: The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel

“There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.”

Ifs Knows Today Opportunity Football Stones Rounds Soccer Predictions Things Change No Point

Author:Cristiano Ronaldo

“may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.”

World May Home Travel Stones Rounds Smooth

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the earth, on the river ruined in its own duration: I know nothing save things the birds have lost, the sea I left behind, or my sister crying. Why this abundance of places? Why does day lock with day? Why the dark night swilling round in our mouths? And why the dead?”

Source: Selected poems

“Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry's right and fell in the water. Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.”

Children School Law Strong Parent Water Space Five Missing Civilization Six Stones Rounds Dare Protection Invisible Ruins Yards Handful Taboo Policemen Roger Tokens Old Life

Author:William Golding

“I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.”

Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

“Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the path, the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones, its legs in the air like a woman in need burning its wedding poisons like a fountain with its rhythmic sobs, I could hear it clearly flowing with a long murmuring sound, but I touch my body in vain to find the wound. I am the vampire of my own heart, one of the great outcasts condemned to eternal laughter who can no longer smile. Am I dead? I must be dead.”

“Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass!”

May Stills Fire Tree Feet Flower Bed Red Standing Stones Rounds Corners Grass Roof Weary Leafs

Book:The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

“After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And Yesterday, or Centuries before? The Feet, mechanical, go round — Of Ground, or Air, or Ought — A Wooden way Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone — This is the Hour of Lead — Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow — First — Chill — then Stupor — then the letting go —”

Ifs Way Firsts Heart Persons Feelings Pain Hours Air Feet Century Ought Letting Go Stones Rounds Yesterday Snow Remembered Contentment Nerves Bores Formal Chill Tombs Freezing Quartz

Author:Emily Dickinson

“When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become as it were like unto rolling logs or stones. For it is the nature of a log or stone to remain motionless on level ground, and to move when on a slope; if four-cornered, to come to a standstill, but if round-shaped to go rolling down.”

Ifs Men Art War Moving Fighting Energy Levels Four Stones Rounds Rolling Art Of War Slopes Standstill Cornered

Book:Strategy Six Pack

Source: Strategy Six Pack

“When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become, as it were, like rolling logs or stones... The energy developed by good fighting men is as the momentum of a round stone rolled down a mountain thousands of feet in height.”

Men Art War Fighting Energy Feet Mountain Stones Rounds Height Rolling Art Of War Momentum Good Fight Good Fighting

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War