I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.
I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.
And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by And never once possess our soul Before we die.
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe Sailed on a river of crystal light, Into a sea of dew.
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.
Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.
I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod.
Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, Your head like the golden-rod, And we will go sailing away from here To the beautiful land of Nod.
The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.
Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally.
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head . . .
Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.
Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.
The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.
'There's a Providence in it all,' said Sam. O' course there is,' replied his father with a nod of grave approval. Wot 'ud become o' the undertakers vithout it, Sammy'
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