If the President has a bully pulpit, then the First
Lady has a white glove
pulpit?more refined, restricted, ceremonial, but
it's a pulpit all the same.
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Mr Lewis'spictures appeared, as averygreat painter said to me, to have been painted bya mailed fist in a cotton glove.
Sheisso odda blend of Little Nell and Lady Macbeth.It is not so much the familiar phenomenon of a hand of steel in a velvet glove as a lacy sleeve with a bottle of vitriol concealed in its folds.
As if the world and they were hand and glove.
william cowperA pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
Nathaniel HawthorneShe 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 huntWhy do you think I always have a rubber glove?
kerry jacksonResponsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm’s Human Resources department.
Alain de BottonLosing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again.
piet heinWhen the ghost comes round at midnight Well you both can have some fun He can drive you mad, he can make you sad He can keep you from the sun When they take him down, he'll be both safe and sound And the hand does fit the glove And no matter what they tell you, There's good and evil in everyone.
van morrisonHand in glove, the good people laugh, yes we may be hidden by rags, But we've something they'll never have
morrisseyAnd prate and preach about what others prove, As if the world and they were hand and glove.
william cowperIron hand in a velvet glove.