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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,… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Bram Stoker
- I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small water seeping upward,… — Theodore Roethke