People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Few of Caesar's assassins outlived him by more than three years, or died in their beds.
Where I grew up, there was only one CD shop, and I didn't really like school, so we'd register, then bunk off, and we would be round my mate's house making drum-and-bass mix tapes.
The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds.
I'm huge on spring and summer gardening. I'm really proud of my perennial beds. That's a passion of mine.
Beds last on an average much longer than marriages.
Hunt looked like a man who had visited many woman's beds and knew exactly what to do in them.
Here bloom red roses, dewy wet,
And beds of fragrant mignonette.
The moon twangs its silver strings;
The river swoons into town;
The wind beds down in the pines,
Covers itself with stars.
The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.
Oh! where do fairies hide their heads, When snow lies on the hills, When frost has spoiled their mossy beds, And crystallized their rills?
My pets are very supportive, as they curl up in their beds underneath my desk.
I stared at the enormous homes, the landscaping and flower beds immaculate. It was as if dollar bills, instead of leaves, hung from the trees.
Oh, my goodness, I am obsessed with Costco! We do runs at least twice a week. I love the salmon and rotisserie chicken, the dog beds.
We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep...
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
There was nowhere to sit except the bunk, which was covered with rotting food, and a wooden stool, upon which sat a large fur-covered lump—an old cheese, perhaps, or a dead cat.
I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.
I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.
Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
We also sleep in separate beds. Hers is in California and mine is in Texas
And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.
To stand by the beds at sunrise and see the flowers awake is a heavenly delight.
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
I can't leave the house without making sure all the beds are made right, so they are neat and fresh when I come in at night.
Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no denying that, as a people, we sustain a passionate concentration on the present and the future.
I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.
Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.
I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk.
In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.
Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual.
I was never a bright student, potentially never good at dramatics; I was sometimes given one-line roles that I was happy to do so that I could bunk classes. My mother used to cry three times a year, and that is when my report card used to come.
Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.
Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases.
We owe it to our troops to let them sleep in their own beds, wake up in the morning, have a delicious breakfast, and drive to war.
The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.
I can wash utensils, chop vegetables and can fold beds. I don't think I can do anything beyond it. In fact, cleaning toilet pots is my biggest nightmare.
There are definite advantages to single beds." He sat up abruptly and arranged her legs around his waist. "Makes cuddling mandatory.
That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I thought was right, that I thought it was cool, and I thought it was fun, and it was exciting at the time. It all led to me laying in a prison bunk by myself with no one to talk to but myself.
My bed is actually two king beds put together.
I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day.
One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.
In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.
I've got three brothers and two sisters. Dad was a plumber who worked really hard to support six children, and Mum was busy at home. The four brothers shared a room, a bunk bed on each side. It wasn't luxurious.
My own preference is for mixed (beds) where there are ...groups of larger shrubs on corners and elsewhere to give shape to the views and to create surprises.
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.
We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep.
People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out.
Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads.
The old priest Peter Gilligan
Was weary night and day;
For half his flock were in their beds,
Or under green sods lay.
You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.
You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.
Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?
... In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the divestment of bunk; its utility is in offering a better alternative, along with a lesson on how thinking goes wrong.
Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!
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