“In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.”
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“A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.”
Source: The Winthrop Woman
OK who's going to identify that?
The Guardian, Saturday 26 April 2008
“Roadstrum had a way of putting it on a little thick himself.”
Roadstrum confronting a potential mutiny, in Ch. 5
Space Chantey (1968)
Context: Roadstrum had a way of putting it on a little thick himself.
"Be there a man among you who doubts my demesne or destiny, then I have fared in vain," he said. "I bare my throat to the treacherous steel —"
"All right, all right," the three tough crewmen capitulated. We're with you all the way and in everything. Only spare us the 'act.'"
One of the most controversial statements Lennon ever made, this was published in England's Evening Standard newspaper (4 March 1966) as part of an interview with writer Maureen Cleave.
Context: Christianity will go.. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first — rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
Source: The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998), P. 131.
“Now I am silent, hate
Up to my neck,
Thick, thick.
I do not speak.”
Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition
“Further, at intervals they lay single stones which run through the entire thickness of the wall.”
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter VIII, Sec. 7
Context: Our workmen, in their hurry to finish, devote themselves only to the facings of the walls, setting them upright but filling the space between with a lot of broken stones and mortar thrown in anyhow. This makes three different sections in the same structure; two consisting of facing and one of filling between them. The Greeks, however, do not build so; but laying their stones level and building every other stone lengthwise into the thickness, they do not fill the space between, but construct the thickness of their walls in one solid and unbroken mass from the facings to the interior. Further, at intervals they lay single stones which run through the entire thickness of the wall. These stones... by their bonding powers... add very greatly to the solidity of the walls.