Angela had done a marvelous job, I tell you. The puke was everywhere except the toilet. The walls, the floor, the sinks - even on the ceiling, though don't ask me how she did that. So there I was, perched on all fours, cleaning up the puke at the homecoming dance in my best blue suit, which was exactly what I had wanted to avoid in the first place. And Jamie, my date, was on all fours, too, doing exactly the same thing.
Quotes about perched (15 Quotes)
Arboreal, a fine word. Our arboreal ancestors, Crake used to say. Used to shit on their enemies from above while perched in trees. All planes and rockets and bombs are simply elaborations on that primate instinct.
The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers.
She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn't have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?
Cindy Sheehan, the Gold Star mother who lost her son in Iraq and who has spent the last month perched outside the Crawford ranch like Poe's raven, almost sounds like she pities George in her latest dispatch from Camp Casey. Since the Freedom and Democracy thing is not going so well, ... and the Iraqi parliament is having such a hard time writing their constitution, since violence is mounting against Iraqis and Americans and since his poll numbers are going down every day, he had to come up with something.
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
An hour, and gay on every tree
Your secret, perched in ecstasy
Defies imprisonment!
Keith Powell and Chris Eger, Pascagoula animal control officers, waded toward their father-in-law's home, dragging a canoe with two shotguns (for killing snakes and possibly alligators) and a cold, wet dog. He was perched in a tree, halfway in the water, ... He was struggling to hold on when we found him.
Peter Taylor was concerned at how tough a task he faced in replacing Martin O'Neill at Filbert Street, but after the opening eight matches Leicester were unbeaten and perched at the top of the Premiership. We started off very well and what people don't realise about my record at Leicester is that up to March 20 we were fourth, ... But, to be fair, a lot of the players at Leicester had a very good season the season before, so they weren't lacking in confidence anyway.
A seagull perched on the railing of a ship at the Mothball Fleet probably knows as much about the sturgeon population as the Department of Fish and Game and any of the so-called experts on sturgeon. We've had the best sturgeon fishing here than anytime the last 20 years.
Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.
And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.
Sundown had bloodied the horizon over the uneven rooftops of South Boston. Birds were perched on every roof and seemed to be watching the girl walking slowly below. - Cradle and All
Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door, Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.