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like a stag from its hunters — like the fugitives, on the old tapestry, from the moon.
Double simile
How certain one is of being able to expel the agony with reasoning and persuasion!
Master Nathaniel, as he spoke, swelled with complacency.
the Harvest of Souls,
Simile
Dame Marigold,
terrified, contemptuous, sick at heart,
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We are not yet civilized enough for exogamy;
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Willy Wisp
“All that seems to matter now is to get away … where there are shadows and quiet … and where I can get … more fruit.”
“in the garden in full daylight I saw them dancing
Some day I’ll send my piper for you, and you will up and follow him!’
He too had felt frightened of homely things.
“Father,” said Ranulph suddenly, “What does the cock say to you?”
Never before had he spoken to anyone about his inner life.
Chapter IV
Master Nathaniel
Endymion Leer.
Haha after 30 years!
he would sometimes startle a polite company by exclaiming half to himself, “Life and death! Life and death! They are the dyes in which I work. Are my hands stained?”
a pig was thrall to the same master as a Mayor, and that it needed as much skill to cure the one as the other;
a good fiddler enjoys fiddling for its own sake, and that it is all the same to him whether he plays at a yokel’s wedding or a merchant’s funeral.
the Senate
he said that he had been taught the rhyme by a funny old man he had seen in his dreams.
Haha - social critique
with one eye blue and the other brown.
Does he have fairy blood?
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a double-dyed villain,”
Haha of course
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the man who remains calm inevitably takes command of a situation.
what Master Nathaniel had heard was the Note.
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Songs were medicines long before herbs.”
The trees in the garden twinkled and murmured. The birds were clamorous. From the distance came the chimes of the Guildhall clock, and the parlor smelt of spring-flowers and potpourri.
Sweet
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“By the Golden Apples of the West!
And this incorrigible optimist about facts was the same man who walked in daily terror of the unknown. But perhaps the one state of mind was the outcome of the other.
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why, in the name of the Milky Way,
“Here are the facts. I give them to you. Be merciful and give them a less ugly shape.”
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Simile nice one
For the moment Master Nathaniel felt as if he really loved the queer, sharp-tongued, little upstart.
Why should we look for any other cure when we have the wild-thyme distilled by our ancestors? Wild time? No, time isn’t wild … time-gin, sloe-gin. It is very soothing.”
Any remark verging on the poetical or philosophical always embarrassed him. Fortunately, such remarks were rare in Lud-in-the-Mist.
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doctor is obliged to keep his eyes open … it is not from what his patients tell him that he prescribes for them, but from what he notices himself.
You are a man who is frightened about something.”
though one has never come within a mile of fairy fruit, one can have all the symptoms of being an habitual consumer of it.
I consider that he is suffering from a spurious surfeit of fairy fruit.”
