"He played the King as though under momentary……" — Eugene Field
"He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace."
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20 Quotes by Eugene Field
Eugene Field has 20 quotes on this site.
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He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.
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Let my temptation be a book.
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Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the…
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Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.
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Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.
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All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing,…
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The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.
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A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.
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Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from…
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Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.
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Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.
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How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher…
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More Ace Quotes
This quote is filed under Ace Quotes,
one of 69 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if…
— William Hazlitt
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Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let…
— Joseph Sobran
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A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I think I actually made a very kind gesture out of nowhere; I decided in the middle of that match…
— Serena Williams
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I usually set aside a lot of time in advance of a movie with important roles for kids to search,…
— Wes Anderson
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It's more and more difficult to get through to your audience with all of the clutter. This is a great…
— Bill Rancic
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Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the…
— Eugene Field
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I just feel like it gets harder and harder every year with Ace getting older and time away from my…
— Jennie Finch
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I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, I'm going to ace this. It's just not who…
— Jennifer Egan
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A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out…
— Nathan Farragut Twining
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The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch,…
— Jimmy Doolittle
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