“The insult was thrown out with a peculiarly reckless air; it astounded the hearer, who sat for an instant with staring eyes and lips apart; then the blood rushed to his cheeks.”
Eve's Ransom (1895), ch. 1
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English novelist 1857–1903Related quotes
“Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.”
Disdain Returned, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Magdalena struggled, cried and moaned.
Piter sank into the stone trance...
Only there, where Mother stood alone,
None has dared cast a single glance.
Translated by Tanya Karshtedt (1996) http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/akhmatova/akhmatova_ind.html
Mary Magdalene beat her breast and sobbed,
The beloved disciple turned to stone,
But where the silent Mother stood, there
No one glanced and no one would have dared.
Translated by Judith Hemschemeyer
Requiem; 1935-1940 (1963; 1987), Crucifixion
Source: Count Zero (1986), Ch. 2, Marly's sensory link conversation interview with Herr Virek.
"To A Spanish Poet" (for Manuel Altolaguirre)
The Still Centre (1939)