"Full-bodied" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rending sobs continued to issue from the full-bodied ridiculous man of fifty, utterly ...
— Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days • Arnold Bennett
... girls from the south of Market. There were women of the cattle camps, and swarthy cigarette-smoking women of Old Mexico. These, in turn, were crowded out by Japanese women, doll-like, stepping mincingly on wooden clogs; by Eurasians, delicate featured, stamped with degeneracy; by full-bodied South-Sea-Island women, flower-crowned and brown-skinned. All these were blotted out by a grotesque and terrible nightmare brood—frowsy, shuffling creatures from the pavements of Whitechapel, gin-bloated hags of the stews, and all the vast ...
— Martin Eden • Jack London
... race of poets, Emasculate, misty, and fine; They brew their small-beer, and don't know its Distinction from full-bodied wine. I'm sick of the prosers, that house up At drowsy St Stephen's,—ain't you? I want some strong spirits to rouse up A good revolution ...
— The Bon Gaultier Ballads • William Edmonstoune Aytoun
... that moment under the Preaching Tree, found him of the same opinion still. He trod the dust a very phantom, while little leaves of cardinal red spun past his nose like the ebbing heart's blood of full-bodied summer. The long leaves of the sumach, too, were like guilty fingers dipped in blood. But the little man paid no heed to the analogies which the seasons presented to his conscience in their dying. Though he thought often of his curse, he had not lifted it. But when he ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various |
