Sheath Quotes

33 quotes by 27 authors

Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal,… — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but… — Elizabeth Bowen
'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O for breath to utter what is like thee! you tailor's-yard,… — William Shakespeare
To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath. — George Eliot
The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type… — Jane Addams
Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge — Marcus Tullius Cicero
But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened… — Bram Stoker
I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small water seeping upward, The tight grains… — Theodore Roethke
You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as… — John Ruskin
Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be… — Carolina Herrera
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into oneâ€™s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to oneâ€™s… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
whats here a cup closed in my true loves hand poisin i see hath been his timeless end. oh churl drunk all and left no… — William Shakespeare
He took something out of his jacket and handed it to her. It was a long thin dagger in a leather sheath. The hilt of… — Cassandra Clare
So we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart still be as loving, And the moon still be as bright.… — Lord Byron
For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from the sheath… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
You will never know how sharp a sword is unless it's drawn from its sheath — Confucius
Arthurâ€™s fingers tighten on the silver-braided hilt: see how naturally it fits his hand! He pulls. The Sword of Britain slides from its stone sheath.… — Stephen R. Lawhead
He wanted to give me a blade? What's wrong with that?â€ â€œBlades,â€ he whispered, â€œand sheaths go together. And your sheath will only ever hold… — Nalini Singh
Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed… — Homer
I could give you a thiught sheath to put that in,"Isabelle offered. "I got tons." "CERTAINLY NOT," said Simon. Clary shot him an irritated look.… — Cassandra Clare

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