Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.
Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.
In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the vivid and particular In proportion as the manners, customs, and amusements of a nation are cruel and barbarous, the regulations of its penal code will be severe. In proportion as men delight in battles, bullfights, and combats of gladiators, will they punish by hanging, burning, and the rack.
PA Ought'a put up a towel rack ma . . . . MA No one is stopping you, that I know of . . ..
The sanguine Sunrise, with his meteor eyes,
And his burning plumes outspread,
Leaps on the back of my sailing rack,
When the morning star shines dead;
As on the jag of a mountain crag,
Which an earthquake rocks and swings,
An eagle alit one moment may sit
In the light of its golden wings.
And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.
... we tend to forget that the body isn't just a hat rack for the mind, but the crucible of development and the creator, monitor, and synthesizer of all our experience.
In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there.
The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.
In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the press.
Back in pre-Revolutionary America 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant the rack and burning at the stake ... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.
That which is now a horse, even with a thought
The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct,
As water is in water.
She dying, as it must be so maintain'd,
Upon the instant that she was accus'd,
Shall be lamented, pitied, and excus'd
Of every hearer; for it so falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
Whiles it was ours.
Desire is a perpetual rack, or horse mill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.
You want to look fashionable and put-together, not like you hit every sale rack this season.
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