Sheath Quotes
33 Sheath quotes by 27 unique authors
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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
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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
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'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
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
— George Eliot
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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
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Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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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
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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
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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
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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
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You will never know how sharp a sword is unless it's drawn from its sheath
— Confucius
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Arthur’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
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He wanted to give me a blade? What's wrong with that?” “Blades,” he whispered, “and sheaths go together. And your sheath will only ever hold…
— Nalini Singh
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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
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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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Staring at her face, she began to fancy her outer layer had begun to melt away while she wasn't paying attention, and something -- some…
— Laini Taylor
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Aragorn threw back his cloak. The elven-sheath glittered as he grasped it, and the bright blade of Andúril shone like a sudden flame as he…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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If you are the lantern, I am the flame; If you are the lake, then I am the rain; If you are the desert, I…
— Cecilia Dart-Thornton
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Francesca took a navy blue sheath from a hanger and held it up. "This is darling, Gabriel. Don't you love it? You're right, I think…
— Christine Feehan
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Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Who Wrote These Sheath Quotes
27 authors contributed a total of 33 Sheath Quotes, led by these top contributors: