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Familiar Quotations

Curtaining

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.–Edward Forster

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.–Doug Horton

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.–Rainer Maria Rilke

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.–John Steinbeck

Curtaining – "Cover"

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.–Freda Adler

A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.–Anonymous

Cover Me, I'm Changing Lanes.–Anonymous

Riches cover a multitude of woes.–Menander of Athens

You could cover the whole world with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.–Ilya Ehrenburg

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.–Albert Einstein

• Preface ix
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Curtaining 1
• Curtaining – "Cover" 1
• Use in Literature 3
• Curtaining 3
• Curtaining – "Act" 11
• Curtaining – "Answer" 12
• Curtaining – "Applause" 12
• Curtaining – "Approached" 12
• Curtaining – "Arms" 13
• Curtaining – "Around" 14
• Curtaining – "Audience" 14
• Curtaining – "Beautiful" 15
• Curtaining – "Bed" 15
• Curtaining – "Bedroom" 19
• Curtaining – "Behind" 20
• Curtaining – "Being" 25
• Curtaining – "Beyond" 25
• Curtaining – "Black" 26
• Curtaining – "Blindness" 27
• Curtaining – "Blue" 28
• Curtaining – "Brightest" 29
• Curtaining – "Building" 29
• Curtaining – "Call" 30
• Curtaining – "Candles" 31
• Curtaining – "Carpets" 31
• Curtaining – "Chair" 31
• Curtaining – "Closed" 32
• Curtaining – "Clouds" 34
• Curtaining – "Came" 35
• Curtaining – "Corner" 39
• Curtaining – "Cover" 39
• Curtaining – "Dark" 41
• Curtaining – "Daylight" 42
• Curtaining – "Day" 43
• Curtaining – "Difference" 44
• Curtaining – "Disappeared" 45
• Curtaining – "Done" 45
• Curtaining – "Door" 46
• Curtaining – "Drawn" 48
• Curtaining – "Duty" 58
• Curtaining – "End" 59
• Curtaining – "Entering" 61
• Curtaining – "Evening" 63
• Curtaining – "Eyes" 63
• Curtaining – "Fall" 66
• Curtaining – "Farther" 68
• Curtaining – "Feelings" 69
• Curtaining – "Feet" 70
• Curtaining – "Few" 70
• Curtaining – "Figures" 71
• Curtaining – "Finally" 72
• Curtaining – "Fire" 73
• Curtaining – "Fog" 74
• Curtaining – "Folds" 74
• Curtaining – "Found" 74
• Curtaining – "Full" 76
• Curtaining – "Furniture" 76
• Curtaining – "Gently" 77
• Curtaining – "Glasses" 78
• Curtaining – "Go" 78
• Curtaining – "Gone" 80
• Curtaining – "Great" 80
• Curtaining – "Green" 81
• Curtaining – "Hands" 82
• Curtaining – "Hung" 84
• Curtaining – "Having" 87
• Curtaining – "Head" 88
• Curtaining – "Heard" 89
• Curtaining – "Heart" 90
• Curtaining – "Heavy" 90
• Curtaining – "Herself" 92
• Curtaining – "Hidden" 93
• Curtaining – "Hope" 94
• Curtaining – "Hour" 95
• Curtaining – "House" 96
• Curtaining – "Iron" 98
• Curtaining – "Joan" 98
• Curtaining – "Kept" 98
• Curtaining – "King's" 99
• Curtaining – "Lady" 100
• Curtaining – "Largest" 101
• Curtaining – "Led" 102
• Curtaining – "Leaned" 102
• Curtaining – "Left" 103
• Curtaining – "Life" 105
• Curtaining – "Lifting" 105
• Curtaining – "Lights" 106
• Curtaining – "Little" 107
• Curtaining – "Looked" 110
• Curtaining – "Loudly" 114
• Curtaining – "Madame's" 114
• Curtaining – "Making" 115
• Curtaining – "Man" 118
• Curtaining – "Miss" 120
• Curtaining – "Moment" 120
• Curtaining – "Morning" 123
• Curtaining – "Mosquito" 124
• Curtaining – "Mother" 125
• Curtaining – "Motionless" 125
• Curtaining – "Movement" 126
• Curtaining – "Neat" 127
• Curtaining – "Night" 127
• Curtaining – "Nothing" 130
• Curtaining – "Old" 131
• Curtaining – "Once" 132
• Curtaining – "Opened" 133
• Curtaining – "Orchestra" 136
• Curtaining – "Orderly" 136
• Curtaining – "Paper" 137
• Curtaining – "Parted" 138
• Curtaining – "Passed" 140
• Curtaining – "People" 143
• Curtaining – "Philip's" 143
• Curtaining – "Picture" 144
• Curtaining – "Placed" 145
• Curtaining – "Play" 147
• Curtaining – "Present" 148
• Curtaining – "Princess" 149
• Curtaining – "Raining" 149
• Curtaining – "Raised" 150
• Curtaining – "Ready" 151
• Curtaining – "Rise" 152
• Curtaining – "Room" 155
• Curtaining – "Rose" 158
• Curtaining – "Round" 161
• Curtaining – "Ran" 161
• Curtaining – "Saying" 162
• Curtaining – "Scene" 163
• Curtaining – "Seats" 163
• Curtaining – "Second" 164
• Curtaining – "Seeing" 165
• Curtaining – "Shading" 165
• Curtaining – "Shadows" 166
• Curtaining – "Show" 167
• Curtaining – "Shut" 168
• Curtaining – "Shutters" 168
• Curtaining – "Sides" 169
• Curtaining – "Silence" 170
• Curtaining – "Silk" 171
• Curtaining – "Sitting" 172
• Curtaining – "Sleep" 174
• Curtaining – "Soon" 175
• Curtaining – "Sounding" 176
• Curtaining – "Speaking" 177
• Curtaining – "Stage" 178
• Curtaining – "Standing" 179
• Curtaining – "Stepped" 180
• Curtaining – "Strange" 181
• Curtaining – "Strong" 181
• Curtaining – "Sun's" 182
• Curtaining – "Ten" 183
• Curtaining – "Tent" 184
• Curtaining – "Theatrical" 184
• Curtaining – "Thick" 185
• Curtaining – "Thought" 185
• Curtaining – "Thrust" 188
• Curtaining – "Thus" 188
• Curtaining – "Times" 189
• Curtaining – "Torn" 189
• Curtaining – "Touched" 190
• Curtaining – "Truth" 190
• Curtaining – "View" 191
• Curtaining – "Voice" 191
• Curtaining – "Waited" 192
• Curtaining – "Wall" 193
• Curtaining – "Watched" 195
• Curtaining – "Water" 195
• Curtaining – "White" 196
• Curtaining – "Wife" 198
• Curtaining – "Wind" 199
• Curtaining – "Window" 199
• Curtaining – "Woman" 209
• Curtaining – "Yellow" 209
• Curtaining – "Young" 210
• Nonfiction Usage 212
• Patent Usage 212
• Bibliographic Usage 212
• Encyclopedic Usage 213
• Lexicographic Usage 220
• Index 245