If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep-inflicted lacerations never heal—cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge—so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses—loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.
Paul's hair was shorn close as raven down, or I think it would have bristled on his head.
Désirée eat like a raven, gambolled day and night in her bed, pitched tents with the sheets and blankets, lounged like a Turk amidst pillows and bolsters, diverted herself with throwing her shoes at her bonne and grimacing at her sisters—over-flowed, in short, with unmerited health and evil spirits; only languishing when her mamma and the physician paid their diurnal visit.
" like a raven croaking over a battlefield when the fight was done.
He said it would turn my hair a beautiful raven black—he positively assured me that it would.
24 Bring up a raven and he'll pick out your eyes.
I have been dive-bombed by an angry Raven, black and glossy as a Devil's hoof.
24 Bring up a raven and he'll pick out your eyes.
Bring up a raven and he'll pick out your eyes.
The Eagle and the Raven An eagle was trying to break open a nut in his beak when a raven landed on a branch beside him.
One shade the more, one ray the less, ,, Had half impair'd the nameless grace : Which waves in every raven tress, , Or softly lightens o'er her face; ; Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
"We will set up a team in Qingdao and share our experience and knowledge to help businesses innovate and thrive, improve university campus and support the city's development," said Tony Raven, chief executive of Cambridge Enterprise.
24 Bring up a raven and he'll pick out your eyes.
Bran Stark: "He's very psychic and he's very close to animals as he has relationships with the Three-Eyed Raven and the direwolves.
Raven the director of the Missouri Botanical Garden "and to find those organisms most endangered in nature and somehow protect them in typeculture collections botanical gardens zoos seed banks or whatever.
Other advocates who made the top 100 include Olympian Caitlyn Jenner, actress Raven Symone, artist Juliana Huxtable and journalist Jose Antonio Vargas.
Let everyone know that other African-American dancers, Raven Wilkinson (who danced with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1955-61) and Lauren Anderson (who, with the Houston Ballet, was the first African-American ballerina to became a principal of an American ballet company), brought her bouquets onstage.
One shade the more, one ray the less, ,, Had half impair'd the nameless grace : Which waves in every raven tress, , Or softly lightens o'er her face; ; Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
developmental psychologists Claudia Mueller and Carol Dweck told children that they had done very well on problems from the Raven Progressive Matrices test and praised them either for being bright or for working hard.
Then she became impatient, and as the ravens were flying about the palace, she opened the window and said, "I wish you were a raven and would fly away, and then I should have some rest.
