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Familiar Quotations

Flesh

This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.–Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The multitude, convinced that the Christians were atheists who ate human flesh and thought incest no crime, displayed against them a fury so passionate as to embarrass and alarm their rulers.–Matthew Arnold

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.–Fawn M. Brodie

Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.–Thomas Browne

Thus parted the one from the others as the nail from the flesh.–Poem of the Cid

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.–Leonard Cohen

The fineness and strength essential to our best being, and to make us do our work, come by the hammer and the fire, by the thorn in the flesh, the trouble and pain in our life, which may act in us as the fire acts in the iron, welding the fiber afresh.–Robert Collyer

He with whom neither slander gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.–Confucius

Those set our hairs, but these our flesh upright.–John Donne

Bears when first born are shapeless masses of white flesh a little larger than mice, their claws alone being prominent. The mother then licks them gradually into proper shape.–Pliny The Elder

• Preface xi
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Flesh 1
• Flesh – "Brawn" 3
• Flesh – "Mortality" 3
• Blood 3
• Blood – "Birth" 6
• Blood – "Life" 8
• Use in Literature 9
• Flesh 9
• Flesh – "Bare" 56
• Flesh – "Bears" 57
• Flesh – "Beasts" 58
• Flesh – "Beautiful" 58
• Flesh – "Becoming" 59
• Flesh – "Begin" 59
• Flesh – "Believe" 60
• Flesh – "Blow" 61
• Flesh – "Break" 62
• Flesh – "Buffalo" 62
• Flesh – "Bullet" 63
• Flesh – "Buried" 63
• Flesh – "Carnal" 64
• Flesh – "Characters" 64
• Flesh – "Claws" 65
• Flesh – "Cleansed" 65
• Flesh – "Cow" 66
• Flesh – "Creature" 66
• Flesh – "Deer" 67
• Flesh – "Devil" 68
• Flesh – "Diet" 69
• Flesh – "Distance" 69
• Flesh – "Divine" 70
• Flesh – "Dogs" 70
• Flesh – "Ate" 71
• Flesh – "Eternity" 75
• Flesh – "Evil" 76
• Flesh – "Faces" 76
• Flesh – "Feasting" 76
• Flesh – "Fed" 77
• Flesh – "Fingers" 78
• Flesh – "Firm" 79
• Flesh – "Fish" 79
• Flesh – "Form" 81
• Flesh – "Grew" 82
• Flesh – "Hard" 84
• Flesh – "Heir" 85
• Flesh – "Hide" 85
• Flesh – "Hold" 86
• Flesh – "Ills" 87
• Flesh – "Imaginations" 87
• Flesh – "Law" 88
• Flesh – "Legs" 88
• Flesh – "Lion" 90
• Flesh – "Makes" 90
• Flesh – "Master" 97
• Flesh – "Meat" 97
• Flesh – "Metal" 98
• Flesh – "Months" 99
• Flesh – "Moved" 99
• Flesh – "Nails" 100
• Flesh – "Natives" 101
• Flesh – "Number" 101
• Flesh – "Passes" 102
• Flesh – "Perfect" 102
• Flesh – "Pieces" 103
• Flesh – "Pleased" 104
• Flesh – "Poison" 105
• Flesh – "Portion" 106
• Flesh – "Possess" 107
• Flesh – "Pressed" 107
• Flesh – "Pride" 108
• Flesh – "Quivered" 108
• Flesh – "Raw" 109
• Flesh – "Rending" 110
• Flesh – "Rested" 110
• Flesh – "Roasted" 111
• Flesh – "Room" 112
• Flesh – "Sacrifice" 112
• Flesh – "Save" 113
• Flesh – "Score" 114
• Flesh – "Shadow" 114
• Flesh – "Sharpening" 115
• Flesh – "Shoulders" 116
• Flesh – "Shown" 117
• Flesh – "Silence" 118
• Flesh – "Skeleton" 118
• Flesh – "Slept" 119
• Flesh – "Smell" 119
• Flesh – "Soft" 120
• Flesh – "Spring" 121
• Flesh – "State" 121
• Flesh – "Stick" 122
• Flesh – "Strips" 122
• Flesh – "Suffering" 123
• Flesh – "Sweet" 123
• Flesh – "Tender" 124
• Flesh – "Thorn" 125
• Flesh – "Tints" 125
• Flesh – "Tortured" 126
• Flesh – "Victims" 126
• Flesh – "Weight" 127
• Flesh – "Wood" 128
• Blood 128
• Blood – "Acts" 144
• Blood – "Animal" 144
• Blood – "Appearance" 145
• Blood – "Armed" 145
• Blood – "Arteries" 146
• Blood – "Badly" 146
• Blood – "Beat" 147
• Blood – "Beauty" 148
• Blood – "Being" 148
• Blood – "Best" 149
• Blood – "Black" 149
• Blood – "Body" 150
• Blood – "Brain" 151
• Blood – "Breathed" 152
• Blood – "Broken" 153
• Blood – "Care" 153
• Blood – "Cases" 154
• Blood – "Causes" 155
• Blood – "Cheeks" 155
• Blood – "Children" 157
• Blood – "Chilled" 157
• Blood – "Circulating" 158
• Blood – "Close" 159
• Blood – "Clothes" 159
• Blood – "Cold" 159
• Blood – "Cry" 161
• Blood – "Dark" 161
• Blood – "Day" 162
• Blood – "Deadly" 163
• Blood – "Drew" 164
• Blood – "Drip" 164
• Blood – "Ears" 165
• Blood – "Effectually" 165
• Blood – "Escaped" 166
• Blood – "Excitement" 166
• Blood – "Eyes" 167
• Blood – "Far" 168
• Blood – "Father" 168
• Blood – "Feet" 169
• Blood – "Felt" 170
• Blood – "Few" 171
• Blood – "Fighter" 172
• Blood – "Fire" 172
• Blood – "Flow" 173
• Blood – "Follow" 175
• Blood – "Forcibly" 176
• Blood – "Found" 177
• Blood – "Girl's" 178
• Blood – "Great" 179
• Blood – "Ground" 180
• Blood – "Gushing" 181
• Blood – "Hair" 182
• Blood – "Hand" 183
• Blood – "Having" 187
• Blood – "Head" 187
• Blood – "Heart" 189
• Blood – "Herself" 192
• Blood – "Hope" 192
• Blood – "Horror" 193
• Blood – "Horse" 193
• Blood – "Hot" 194
• Blood – "Hour" 195
• Blood – "Idea" 195
• Blood – "Increase" 196
• Blood – "Keep" 197
• Blood – "Killed" 197
• Blood – "Leaped" 197
• Blood – "Left" 198
• Blood – "Lips" 199
• Blood – "Little" 200
• Blood – "Live" 201
• Blood – "Look" 202
• Blood – "Loss" 203
• Blood – "Lost" 204
• Blood – "Love" 204
• Blood – "Lying" 205
• Blood – "Men" 205
• Blood – "Marks" 209
• Blood – "Minds" 210
• Blood – "Mouth" 210
• Blood – "Name" 210
• Blood – "Natural" 211
• Blood – "Need" 211
• Blood – "Night" 212
• Blood – "Noble" 212
• Blood – "Nothing" 213
• Blood – "Old" 214
• Blood – "Once" 215
• Blood – "Oozing" 216
• Blood – "Order" 216
• Blood – "Others" 217
• Blood – "Part" 218
• Blood – "Persons" 219
• Blood – "Place" 219
• Blood – "Poor" 220
• Blood – "Power" 220
• Blood – "Pressure" 221
• Blood – "Prince" 223
• Blood – "Returning" 224
• Blood – "Roses" 225
• Blood – "Ran" 225
• Blood – "Sense" 227
• Blood – "Sent" 228
• Blood – "Shall" 228
• Blood – "Shed" 229
• Blood – "Sight" 230
• Blood – "Sign" 231
• Blood – "Soon" 231
• Blood – "Spoke" 233
• Blood – "Stirred" 233
• Blood – "Strange" 234
• Blood – "Streaked" 234
• Blood – "Stronger" 235
• Blood – "Supplying" 236
• Blood – "Surface" 236
• Blood – "Sweat" 237
• Blood – "Thick" 237
• Blood – "Thing" 238
• Blood – "Thought" 239
• Blood – "Thus" 240
• Blood – "Tingled" 241
• Blood – "Touched" 242
• Blood – "Trickled" 242
• Blood – "True" 243
• Blood – "Veins" 243
• Blood – "Vessel" 245
• Blood – "Warm" 246
• Blood – "Water" 247
• Blood – "Weakness" 247
• Blood – "White" 248
• Blood – "Wild" 249
• Blood – "Work" 250
• Blood – "Years" 250
• Blood – "Young" 251
• Nonfiction Usage 253
• Script Usage 253
• Tongue-Twister Usage 255
• Presidential Usage 255
• Bible Usage 256
• Qur'anic Usage 276
• Journalism Usage 276
• Patent Usage 285
• Bibliographic Usage 291
• Encyclopedic Usage 315
• Lexicographic Usage 372
• Index 528