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“A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.”

Made Blood Stones Hardest Diamond Steel Goats

Author:Thomas Browne

“[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.”

Next White Half Seeing Sea Middle Building Stones Sight Glasses Wave Heavy London Boat Dirty Score Concrete Flood Steel Bricks Spit Rowing Slate Foam Submerged Spires Asphalt

Book:Mr. Beluncle: A Novel

Source: Mr. Beluncle: A Novel

“An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel.”

Ifs Source Stones Streams Dry Splits Steel Pipe Thirsty Drinkers

Book:The Novels of Elinor Wylie

Source: The Novels of Elinor Wylie

“Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.”

Stones Metaphor Architecture Symbols Steel Vocabulary

Author:Ada Louise Huxtable

“The mystical perception (which is only "mystical" if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is remarkably consistent in all ages and all places. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux...have the mind screens knocked away to see there is no real edge to anything, that in the endless interpenetration of the universe, a molecular flow, a cosmic energy shimmers in all stone and steel as well as flesh.”

“The subject of the novel is reality liberated from soul. The reader in complete independence presented with a structured process:let him evaluate it, not the author. The façade of the novel cannot be other than stone or steel, flashing electrically or dark, but silent.”

Soul Reality Process Dark Novel Subjects Reader Stones Independence Silent Steel Objectivity Liberated Evaluate

Author:Alfred Doblin

“The American spirit is stronger than stone and mortar, tougher than steel and glass, and more enduring than any pain or suffering that can be inflicted on our national conscience.”

Pain Spirit Suffering Conscience Stones Stronger Endure Glasses Steel Mortar American Spirit

Author:Olympia Snowe

“He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up the sides of skyscrapers. He was the Hulk when angry and Spidey the rest of the time. When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A heart that flashed from heart to stone, heart to stone. As I watched I thought of what Grandma Lynn liked to say when Lindsey and I rolled our eyes or grimaced behind her back. "Watch out what faces you make. You'll freeze that way.”

Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

“This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.”

Hard Time Tree Flower Kings Mountain Beats Bird All Things Stones Towns Ruins Meals Beast Iron Bites Steel Grind Riddle

Book:The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition

“Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.”

Wonder Stones Grass Steel Dominion

Book:Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)