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Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world.
michael parenti— Chapter 10, p. 173
Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.
john ruskin— 1881Letter.
I have horrible nightmares of Sir Almwroth Wright's limp sentences wandering through the arid desert of his mind looking for dropped punctuation marks.
Dame Rebecca formerly Cecily Isabel Fairfield West— 1913 'Lynch Law:TheTragedy of Ignorance', in The Clarion, 17 Oct. AlmwrothWright was oneof the most vocalopponents of women's suffrage.
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death Percivalothers through sheer inability to cross the street.
(Adeline) Virginia ne e Stephen Woolf— 1931TheWaves.
Thus falling, falling from afar,As if some melancholy starHad mingled with her light her sighs,And dropped them from the skies.
— Poem Rosalie
She dropped her glove, to prove his love, then looked at him and smiled;He bowed, and in a moment leaped among the lions wild:The leap was quick, return was quick, he has regained his place,Then threw the glove, but not with love, right in the lady's face."By God!" said Francis, "rightly done!" and he rose from where he sat:"No love," quoth he, "but vanity, sets love a task like that."
leigh hunt— The Glove and the Lions
The inauguration went off very well except that the Vice President Elect was too drunk to perform his duties and disgraced himself and the Senate by making a drunken foolish speech. I was never so mortified in my life, had I been able to find a hole I would have dropped through it out of sight.
andrew johnson— Senator Zachariah T. Chandler in a letter to his wife, quoted in the US Senate Biography
You couldn't drop me! You never dropped me.
jake lamotta— Words spoken to Sugar Ray Robinson after their sixth fight, 1951. [1]
Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him.
david lange— Source: David Lange, My Life (2005), p.98
— Referring to his former Cabinet colleague Dr Michael Bassett, who was delivered by his Doctor father.
I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.
stanhope, philip, 4th earl of chesterfield— The World, no. 101 (December 5, 1754).
We believe he [the prosecutor] dropped charges after having googled all night about DHT
peter sunde— Prosecution Drops Some Charges Against The Pirate Bay [2]
The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test.
anna akhmatova— As translated by Stanley KunitzThen fell the word of stone on
My still existing, still heaving breast.
Never mind, I was not unprepared, and
Shall manage to adjust to it somehow.Translated by D. M. Thomas
Mrs. Montagu has dropt me. Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.
samuel johnson— March 1781, p. 465.
All my life, I thought I was a Conservative. Now I know that I have never been one. The scales have dropped from my eyes.
keith joseph— Obituary, The Independent, Monday 12 December 1994.
High up where the poor sat, the people quaked with fear: they saw the soul stretched on the ground, a votive beast beaten by the conflicting powers of light and dark, and their minds shook, nor knew now what great god to choose, for comfort's road dropped to the right, the rough ascent rose to the left, and both roads seemed to lead to God, while at the crossroads stood the human heart, and swayed.
Nikos Kazantzakis— Book VI, line 242
“I heard it clearly, and so did everyone else, I’ll be bound. Your name, dear, not mine. I am very popular. You, it seems, are not.” “What a surprise.” He dropped petals on the floor. “And what a good thing I don’t care.” “How nice for you that you don’t have to.” “Meaning,” he drawled, “that you do.” “Just so.”
ellen kushner— Part IV, Chapter V (p. 392)
If her hunch was right, the earl’s explorations were connected in some way to ley travel: that peculiar phenomenon that had plucked her from the twenty-first century and dropped her so rudely into the seventeenth.
stephen r. lawhead— p. 105 (The Bone House (2011))
As living jewels dropped unstained from heaven.
robert pollok— Robert Pollok, Course of Time, Book V, line 158.
American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others: Since 1980, the price of sweeteners and added fats (most of them derived, respectively, from subsidized corn and subsidized soybeans), dropped 20 percent, while the price of fresh fruits and vegetables increased by 40 percent
— Michael Pollan, in Costs of Eating Well in "Costs of Eating Well"
Mechanical engineering is now the largest branch, with nearly 40 percent of the profession's members. Civil engineering, which was the largest branch prior to World War II, has dropped to second place, with about 25 percent of all engineers.
— United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics (1951) Effect of defense program on employment outlook in engineering. p. 18
I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
— Steve Jobs on Bill Gates as quoted in "Creating Jobs" in The New York Times (12 January 1997).
God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.
john masefield— John Masefield, Widow in the Bye Street, Part VI.
Mechanical engineering is now the largest branch, with nearly 40 percent of the profession's members. Civil engineering, which was the largest branch prior to World War II, has dropped to second place, with about 25 percent of all engineers.
— United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics (1951) Effect of defense program on employment outlook in engineering. p. 18
And the guelder rose In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped, Her wealth about her feet.
— Jean Ingelow, Laurance, Part III.
The great white pear-tree dropped with dew from leaves And blossom, under heavens of happy blue.
jean ingelow— Jean Ingelow, Songs with Preludes, Wedlock; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 591.
They stoop to pick up golden apples dropped from the tree of industry, and to barter truth , love , and honour for traffic in wool, beetroot-sugar, and potato spirits.
— Karl Marx, in The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English, BookCaps Study Guides, 2012, p.93
Consider the world as an abode where in you have dropped down for an hour, then you have got to leave it and go ahead; or (suppose it is) like the wealth which you lay hands upon in a dream and become over-joyed and glad. Then you wake up to find yourself empty handed.
— Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p.287
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, dropped from an Angel's wing.
william wordsworth— William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Part III. V. Walton's Book of Lives.
