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Sherlock HolmesThe lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. Page 323
England
D.H. Lawrence, Nottingham and the Mining Countryside, 1936. An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to ...
John Knowles
It's all right to miss seeing the trees and the countryside and all the other things when you've got to be in a hurry. And when you're in a war you've got to be in a hurry.
Mitch Hedberg
There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run, he's fuzzy, get out of here. This shirt is "dry-clean only"...which means it's dirty.
Torchwood
Jack: What you do in private is none of our business. Countrycide [1.6] Owen: I hate the countryside. It's dirty, it's unhygienic. And what is that smell?
Meindert DeJong
The dog had only the silent empty countryside of the few houses. The dog had only the crumbs and cleaned bones he could pick up at the few houses.
Wesele
Let there be a war the world over, if only the Polish countryside was peaceful, if only the Polish countryside was quiet. Journalist (Dziennikarz)
The Country Wife
The Country Wife is an English Restoration comedy of manners from 1675 by William Wycherley. Quotes from the play. Your Women of honour, as you
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Born and raised in the countryside of Gujarat, Vallabhbhai Patel was a self-educated, forceful and successful Gujarati lawyer, when he was inspired by the work and ...
Withnail and I
I'm in a park and I'm practically dead; what good's the countryside gonna do? Right here's the plan; we go in there, and get wecked. We eat a pork pie, then lay down a ...
Muammar Gaddafi
Sons of the Bedouins, sons of the desert, sons of the ancient cities, sons of the countryside, sons of the villages, the hour of work has struck and so let us forge ahead.
Andrei Sakharov
The results are evident a profound and hard-to-correct destruction of the economy and way of life in the countryside, which, by the law of interconnected vessels ...
The Village
The Village is a 2004 film about the population of a small, isolated countryside village who believe that their alliance with the mythical creatures that inhabit the ...
Roger Scruton
Roger Vernon Scruton (born 27 February 1944) is a British philosopher. He is (or has been) an academic, editor, publisher, barrister, journalist, broadcaster, countryside ...
Stonehenge
Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position ...
Michel Chossudovsky
Macro-economic policy had accelerated the "expulsion" of landless peasants from the countryside leading to the formation of a nomadic migrant labor force moving from one ...
The World at War
Here is no nubile, girlish land; no green and virginal countryside for war to violate. This land is hard. Inviolable. Episode Twelve: Whirlwind: Bombing Germany
Friedrich Engels
They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left. How is it possible that the poorer classes can remain ...
Dartmouth College
... on a moonlit night or has not become a worshipper of color as the sun sets from one of Hanover's hills; who has not thrilled at the whiteness of the snow-clad countryside ...
Sometimes in April
Augustin: She's safer in the countryside than in Kigali. Come on! Jeanne: Come on, wake up!... Nobody is safe in this country! Have you seen the Hutu Ten Commandments?
Glen or Glenda
If'n the Creator hadda meant for us to roll around the countryside, we'd have been born with wheels. Narrator: Silly? Certainly. We were not born with wings, we were not ...
House of Leaves
There as the docent, as the interpreter, maybe even as this strange and tangled countryside. Her shallow face, the dark lyric in her eyes and of course her words, in ...
Bride of Frankenstein
And with your creature still at large in the countryside... Henry: Are you threatening me? Pretorius: I had ventured a hope that you and I together, no longer as master and ...
Mao Zedong
Then I will go, to the countryside, lead the peasant and revolt. If the Liberation Army do not follow me, I will get the Red Army. (July 23, 1959)
Viktor Schauberger
... even when heavier than water, for example ore, stones, etc., down the centre of such water-courses; to raise the height of the water table in the surrounding countryside ...
Look Around You
Then I moved to the countryside but they built an abattoir next to my house. And my wife has this condition where she screams constantly. And her sister moved in and she ...
Bill Bryson
Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position ...
David Attenborough
Midwinter, and the countryside is so still, it seems almost lifeless. But these trees and bushes and grasses around me are living organisms just like animals.
Kerala
The countryside turns an immodest green. Boundaries blur as tapioca fences take root and bloom. Brick walls turn moss green. Pepper vines snake up electric poles.
Carroll Quigley
... and the frustration of emotions were greatly intensified by the Industrial Revolution: railroads, factories, growth of cities, technological revolution in the countryside ...
William March
The next spring the grass comes up greener and more luxuriant than on the surrounding countryside; the poppies are redder, the corn-flowers more blue.
Robinson Jeffers
I cannot imagine him as having arisen unchanged in another countryside. The sea-beaten coast, the fierce freedom of its hunting hawks, possessed and spoke through him.
John Steinbeck
... am sure that, as all pendulums reverse their swing, so eventually will the swollen cities rupture like dehiscent wombs and disperse their children back to the countryside.
Watership Down (film)
Dandelion: [looking at the countryside from Watership Down] O Frith on the hills! He made it all for us! Hazel: Frith may have made it, but Fiver found it.
Grandma Moses
Both her work and her life helped our nation renew its pioneer heritage and recall its roots in the countryside and on the frontier. All Americans mourn her loss.
Soren Kierkegaard
The countryside is somewhat isolated and slopes steeply down to the lake, but with the beech forests growing on either side, it is not barren.
On the Jews and Their Lies
For they have no business in the countryside, since they are not lords, officials, tradesmen, or the like. Let they stay at home... Sixth, I advise that usury be ...
Reality Bites
What 'Hey, That's My Bike' would like to do as a band is travel the countryside like Woody Guthrie. Sammy: Or Richard Simmons. You know, how in his commercials he ...
Ayn Rand
... launch of Apollo 11] Those people were not a stampeding herd, nor a manipulated mob; they did not wreck the Florida communities, they did not devastate the countryside ...
Will Cuppy
Then it recedes and soon the whole countryside, as far as the eye can reach, is covered with Egyptologists. The Egyptians of the First Dynasty were already civilized in ...
Simon Munnery
There are two types of people in this world: those who live in the cities - or 'citizens' as I call them - and those who live in the countryside... who shall remain ...
Gustave Flaubert
Everything immediately surrounding her -- boring countryside, inane petty bourgeois, the mediocrity of daily life -- seemed to her the exception rather than the rule.
2DTV
(office turns into countryside. Blair puts on a casual shirt) Blair: Ah, it's the weekend, and I'm relaxed. Downtime. Cup of tea. Jeans, with a crease, because I'm an ...
Schoolhouse Rock!
She led them all across the countryside. Fireworks. Ooh, there's gonna be fireworks (Fireworks!) On the Fourth of July (red, white, and blue!) Red, white, and blue fireworks
The World Is Flat
Right now about 700 to 800 million of China's 1.3 billion people live in the countryside. Half are expected to migrate to the cities over the next two decades, if they ...
Robert Henryson
His background is not simply the Abbey School of Dunfermline (where he is reputed to have been a schoolmaster), but the surrounding Scottish countryside and community to ...
Men Behaving Badly
[on the way to the countryside] Dorothy: Maybe I should move down here. Gary: Nah, you'd miss the sophisticated city talk. Dorothy: What, you and Tony discussing the most ...
Charlie Brooker
... one feels in the slightest bit sorry for you - in fact the further you march, the louder we'll laugh, because you brought it all on yourselves. TVGoHome; On a Countryside ...
Jean Froissart
... Queen Philippa's court his fastidious eyes were spared the sight, which was moving Langland to realism, of the disbanded soldiery begging their bread along the countryside.
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