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A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.
You must not miss Whitehall. At one end you will find a statue of one of our kings who was beheaded; at the other, a monument tothemanwho did it.That isjust one example of our attempts to be fair to everybody.
His harmonical and ingenious soul did lodge in a beautiful and well proportioned body. He was a spare man. He was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ's College.
His opinion of himself, having once risen, remained at 'set fair'.
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves'eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flockof sheep that are evenshorn, whichcameup from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them. Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men. Thy two breasts are liketwo young roesthat aretwins, which feed among the lilies.Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and tothehill of frankincense.Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
How fair and how pleasant art thou,O love, for delights!
The lot is fallen unto me in a fair ground: yea, I have a goodly heritage. See Kipling 473:53.
O rattlin, roarin Willie, O he held to the fair; An'for to sell his fiddle And buy some other ware.
Though this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a'the town, I sigh'd, and said amang them a', 'Ye are na Mary Morison.'
O my Luve's like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June; O my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly play'd in tune. As fair art thou, my bonie lass, So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still, my Dear, Till a'the seas gang dry. Till a'the seas gang dry, my Dear, And the rocks melt wi' the sun: O I will love thee still, my Dear, While the sands o' life shall run.
Keep up appearances; there lies the test; The world will give thee credit for the rest. Outward be fair, however foul within; Sin if thou wilt, but then in secret sin.
Say, lingering fair! why comes the birth Of your brave soul so slowly forth?
Now,Watson, the fair sex is your department.
Fair stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry.
Happy, happy, happy, pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair.
All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
In football it is widely acknowledged that if both sides agree to cheat, cheating is fair.
The lads in their hundredsto Ludlowcome in for the fair, There'smen fromthe barn and the forge and themill and the fold, The lads for the girls and the lads for the liquor are there, And there with the rest are lads that will never be old.
Oh I have been to Ludlow fair And left my necktie God knows where, And carried half-way home, or near, Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.
He never wants anything but what's right and fair, only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that hewantsandnothing that youwant. And that's his idea of a compromise.Give me the Brown compromise when I'm on his side.
While the journalist exists merelyas the publicity agent of big business, a large circulation, got by fair means or foul, is a newspaper's one and onlyaim.
When a man takes a farm from which another has been evicted, you must show him on the roadside when you meet him; you must show him in the streets of the town; you must show him in the fair and the market place; and even in the house of worship, by leaving him severely aloneby putting him into a moral Coventry, by isolating himfromhiskindasif hewerea leperofold.You must show himyourdetestationofthe crimesthat hehas committed.
Fair and fair, and twice so fair, As fair as any may be; The fairest shepherd on our green, A love for any lady.
Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.
Fair, fat, and forty.
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion.
Of all God's works, which do this world adorn, There is no one more fair and excellent, Then is mans body both for power and form, Whiles it is kept in sober government.
Out upon it! I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.
A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.
Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his Government a Fair Deal.
Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.
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