off down the street, squalling like a scalded cat. A big ugly cur tried his luck. He didnt get off so easy. He came out with his left shoulder laid open to the bone. He sat down on his rear and let the world know that he had been hurt. By this time, my fighting blood was ...
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,Thy knotted and combinèd locks to part,And each particular hair to stand on end,Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. Hamlet (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 15 (Oxford Standard ...
I shall shrink from nothing, for my blood is up. It is unwise of you to laugh. I forbid you to marry Carella, and I shall tell him so now.” “Do,” she cried. “Tell him so now. Have it out with him. Gino! Gino! Come in! Avanti! Fra Filippo forbids the banns!” Gino ...
I thought it would be fun to have a more “authentic” experience of staying in one of these historic homes, but it turned out it meant really cramped quarters where mom, Sylvia and I essentially played Twister to maneuver around each other in the bedroom and that we had to escort mom i...
”First understand that very few freed Slaves actually received 40 acres and a mule… but let’s say they did. They had no money to buy seed. If they had seed, they needed implements to clear the land and till the soil. What exactly were they supposed to eat or live on until their...
I don’t buy the argument that babies that CIO learn that their cries will not be responded to. I used CIO to give my baby a chance to learn to fall asleep on her own, which she learned to do within several nights. I didn’t use it to neglect her. She still woke during the ...
you take a cable car across. The cable car has a glass bottom, and if you are dumb enough to look down you will notice that the “river” that runs below you is really more of a small stream. It will not cushion your landing. At best, it will gently wash away your blood from yo...
First, and because I didn't promise not to do this: I TOLD YOU SO, I TOLD YOU SO, I F*CKING TOLD YOU SO. For everyone who came here to lecture me, that the China Coff was going to depopulate the world, and I was being irresponsible for saying it was like
There has never been blood upon its surface; only a little mud and dust. Hardly more potent has been my rifle–and both have been carried many wearisome miles. My service has been a washout; undistinguished. Yet I have seen many dead men and boys–so many that the sight ceased to ...
bringing down oil prices. The prices of many other commodities, such as coal and iron ore, are down as well. Instead of oil prices staying up near the cost of extraction, they have fallen closer to the level consumers can afford. Needless to say, this is not good if the economy really...