A rocker rose like Poseidon and flexed his knuckles.
A rocker rose like Poseidon and flexed his knuckles.
When I was as old as you, I was a feeling fellow enough, partial to the unfledged, unfostered, and unlucky; but Fortune has knocked me about since: she has even kneaded me with her knuckles, and now I flatter myself I am hard and tough as an India-rubber ball; pervious, though, through a chink or two still, and with one sentient point in the middle of the lump.
She started to turn, but before she could step away, Tamani grabbed her hand. Without breaking eye contact, he raised her hand to his face and brushed his lips over her knuckles.
I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
I want to thank my parents for letting me play baseball. I'm thankful I had baseball knuckles and couldn't become a dentist... I got 2,100 a year when I started in the big league, and they get more money now. ... I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit.
For 30 days, we went knocking on doors. My knuckles still hurt.
Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring died. The patch of grass in front of the house abandoned its ambitions to become a lawn and turned into the dirty yellow of poor straw. The earth shrank, revealing its knuckles and bones, rocks and roots that had been invisible before.
If 'Knuckles' (Connolly) is coming over, I am sure he will pay me a visit, there will be no doubt about that.
It was just after a tough loss 54-40, and it was a moment of frustration on the way to the locker room. He scraped his knuckles. There was no serious damage, no swelling.
They say some time was wasted on the belt--
Old streak of leather--doesn't love me much
Because I make him spit fire at my knuckles,
The way Ben Franklin used to make the kite-string.
We are working to calm the tension. We think this is a conflict that began outside of school since it happened on a Monday. The two students who were arrested were found with brass knuckles in their backpacks, they weren't used, but that is a prohibited weapon.
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
If you rap your knuckles against a window jamb or door, if you brush your leg against a bed or desk, if you catch your foot in a curled-up corner of a rug, or strike a toe against a desk or chair, go back and repeat the sequence. You will find yourself su
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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© 2020 Inspirational Stories