throat quotes
If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat.
After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.
Ask me no more whither dost haste The nightingale when May is past; For in your sweet dividing throat She winters, and keeps warm her note.
Two things should have been cut. The second act and that youngster's throat.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
The silver swan, who living had no note, When death approached, unlocked her silent throat; Leaning her breast against the reedy shore, Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more: 'Farewell, all joys; Oh death, come close mine eyes; More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.'
The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.
William James could almost hear the bronze Negroes breathe. Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.
The Socialist paperscame out full tothethroat of well- printed matteradmirable and straightforward expositions of the doctrines and practice of Socialism, free from hasteand spiteand hard wordswith a kind of May-day freshness amidst the worryand terror of the moment.
Failure to examine the throat is a glaring sin of omission, especially in children.One finger in thethroat and one in the rectum makes a good diagnostician.
You've got a sharp tongue in your head, Mr Essick. Look out it doesn't cut your throat.
The best thing to do right now is to throw a feed into her as the chances are that her stomach thinks her throat is cut.
In Church your grandsire cut his throat; To do the job too long he tarried, He should have had my hearty vote, To cut his throat before he married.
If youwanttocut yourownthroat, don'tcometomefora bandage.
As I came through the desert thus it was, As I came through the desert: All was black, In heaven no single star, on earth no track; A brooding hush without a stir or note; The air so thick it clotted in my throat.
Whoever is Lord of Malacca hashishand onthethroat of Venice.
The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world.
What would it pleasure me, to have my throat cut With diamonds? Or to be smothered With cassia? Or to be shot to death, with pearls?
Every time that Mr Macmillan comes back from abroad, Mr Butlergoestotheairport andgripshimwarmly by the throat.
Jeeves coughed one soft, low, gentle cough like a sheep with a blade of grass stuck in its throat.
I have made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.
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