Source: The Maze of Bones
E o abade pançudo que à tardinha, à varanda, palita o dente furado saboreando o seu café com um ar paterno, traz dentro em si os indistintos restos dum Torquemada.
O Crime do Padre Amaro (1875), ch. 8; translation by Nan Flanagan from The Sin of Father Amaro ([1962] 1985) p. 98.
“She tried out the chamber pot, although she really had nothing to contribute.”
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
“So knives out
Catch the mouse
Squash his head
Put him in the pot”
Knives Out
Lyrics, Amnesiac (2001)
“Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks,
And he has chambers in King's Bench walks.”
A parody on Pope's lines: "Graced as thou art with all the power of words, / So known, so honoured at the House of Lords"; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“His eyes measured the little chamber.”
Source: Empire of the Sun (1984), p. 8
Context: His eyes measured the little chamber. How two people could survive in so small a space was as difficult to grasp as the conventions in contract bridge. Perhaps there was some simple key that would solve the problem, and he would have the subject of another book.
Si Dieu me donne encore de la vie je ferai qu’il n’y aura point de laboureur en mon Royaume qui n’ait moyen d’avoir une poule dans son pot.
As quoted by Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont in Histoire du roy Henry le Grand http://books.google.com/books?id=_Azvfrm9tcQC&q=%22Si+Dieu+me+donne+encore+de+la+vie+je%22+%22qu'il+n+y+aura%22+%22de+laboureur+en+mon+Royaume+qui+n'ait+moyen+d'auoir%22+%22poule+dans+son%22&pg=PA549#v=onepage (1661).
“Killing people is easier than it should be.” Dad put on his beret. “Staying alive is harder.”
Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 106.
