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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.
— 1934 'The ForceThatThrough the Green Fuse Drives the Flower'.
Four hoarse blasts of a ship’s whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
john steinbeck— Pt. 1 (Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962))
'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.
john gay— The What D'ye Call It (1715), Act II, sc. viii.
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.
dylan thomas— The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower, st. 1 (1934)
They that stand high have many blasts to shake them; And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act I, scene 3, line 259.
Oh, for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), The Fire-Worshippers.
O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sonnet, To the Nile.
And so the blasts of calumny, howl they ever so fiercely over the good man's head, contribute to his juster appreciation and to his wider fame. Preserve only a good conscience toward God, and a loving purpose toward your fellow men, and you need not wince nor tremble, though the pack of the spaniel-hearted hounds snarl at your heels.
— William Morley Punshon, p. 215. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Superior, and Michigan possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many of the ocean's noblest traits... they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew.
Herman Melville— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)
That blasts of January Would blow you through and through.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act IV, scene 4, line 111; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403.
Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above! Beneath the sliding sun thou runn'st thy race, Dost fairest shine, and best become thy place; For thee the winds their eastern blasts forbear, Thy mouth reveals the spring, and opens all the year; Thee, goddess, thee, the storms of winter fly, Earth smiles with flowers renewing, laughs the sky.
john dryden— John Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, Book III, line 1405.
So shall they build me altars in their zeal, Where knaves shall minister, and fools shall kneel: Where faith may mutter o'er her mystic spell, Written in blood and Bigotry may swell The sail he spreads for Heav'n with blasts from hell!
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), Veiled Prophet of Khorassan.
Bleak are our shores with the blasts of December, Fettered and chill is the rivulet's flow; Throbbing and warm are the hearts that remember Who was our friend when the world was our foe.
Holmes, Sr., Oliver Wendell— Welcome to the Grand Duke Alexis, Dec. 6, 1871. Referring to the fleet sent by Russia in Sept., 1863, an act with mixed motives, but for which we were grateful.
