Peaceful continued. Countless eyes, Peaceful as two six-shooters on the Peeping like stars through the blue ev'ning's skies. THOMAS MOORE. - WILLIAM parrot. WORDS Sleeping as peacefully as a little girl tired of playing. - GUY DE MAU Like the eternal thunders of the deep. Pearls. IBID. ADDISON. Pedantry and taste are as inconsistent as gayety and melancholy. J. C. LAVATER. Pensiv as a wel fed kitten. BILLINGS. People. The people in mass are like metal in the ore; and, as all the iron that ever came from a Swedish mine would never hew a block or divide a plank until it was fashioned into the shape of a hatchet or a saw, so the strength of a people can never perhaps be made capable of producing much effect in 290 PEOPLE. PERMANENT. People - continued. war, till it is extracted partially and moulded into that factitious and highly polished instrument called an army. SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON. Impatient people, according Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others. GEORGE ELIOT. Peoples, like planets, possess the right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. - HUGO. It is with narrow soul'd people as with narrow necked bottles, the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out. SWIFT. Perceive. |