She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air.
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
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It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
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Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, wil...
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If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.
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No one's free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
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Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
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