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"Sulky McSulkerton
I have sat before the dense coal fire and watched it all aglow, full of its tormented flaming life; and I have seen it wane at last, down, down, to dumbest dust. Old man of oceans! of all this fiery life of thine, what will at length remain but one little heap of ashes!
I grew up near Strasbourg in Alsace, where my family were coal merchants.
I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.
My father and brothers were coal miners.
It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face
the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra.
My face is turned to a sky that I cannot see, one blue above the stone.
The slick bare tar, the same suburban station.
Stock runnin' on the plains south of the Platte all the way
granite headland, drawing ever closer, looks like an unholy tooth, something black and dangerous,
I remember your name perfectly, but I just can't think of your face.
A face shaped by both love and adversity. But where neither held sway. They were balanced, point to point.
Even coal shimmers in the light
THE MAN WITH TWO FACES I
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
Just a man, with a face-shaped face,
Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
But don't worry; as I've been saying - and this has been very clever of me, I'm sure you'll agree - if you put enough pressure on coal, it'll turn to pearls!
Beg pardon? I detected large deposits of vanity. Vanity is the softest of bedrocks to sink shafts into.
heads that edged the huge fireplace, and I
The Box, shuck-face, the Box!
The hottest coals of fire ever heaped upon the head of one who has wronged you are the coals of human kindness.
The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs; A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings!
My face is rather like a collision waiting to happen: head-on I can be borne, but turn sideways, and it is all calamity.
Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.
I am a face in a trance, evoking duende. My face imbues breath and stuns you with star-spirit. I am grove-face, story-teller face, and dawn-bringer face. A face as common as carrots and celery, called upon as a father to be cook, waiter, servant, and maid.
Bloody flaming ashes
Those memories, they are the coals that shield my heart from frost.
See not the face..
but only the eyes,
of the poker face.
Face to the reality.
Hello, Capustan. The Bridgeburners have arrived.
Coal miners don't get coal miners' block.
Polyface is proof that people can sometimes do more for the health of a place by cultivating it rather than by leaving it alone.
I'm gonna kill you, shuck-face!
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
If you're unable to find your face in the dictionary, then take this opportunity to define yourself.
If you had a piece of coal, we could hold her down, shove it up her ass, and come collect a big, fat diamond in a few days.
I have no face, only two profiles clapped together.
Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.
Well, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns into pearls!
We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.
Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
There are only two kinds of faces: Sincere and insincere!
varieties of sunken cheek, cadaverous
Only from dark coal tunnels white diamonds come, but only by the light are they recognised.
To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.
Pipe it, shuck-face,
I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).
You have your face bare; I am all face.
I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been ...
We only have so many faces in our pockets
Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals.
There are really only two stories the coal industry tells: "Coal keeps the lights on, and by implication, you'll live in medieval, soul-shattering darkness if you don't let us do whatever the hell we want with the landscape and drinking water you public health, because there's no alternative."
Wars fought over a face like this,
crenellations, the scarlet and the pale, the airy stone and the
I was the all-American face. You name it, honey - American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald's, Burger King. The Face That Didn't Matter - that's what I called my face.
The relevant questions now are: How do we move beyond coal? How do we bring new jobs to the coal fields and retrain coal miners for other work? How do we inspire entrepreneurialism and self-reliance in people whose lives have been dependent on the paternalistic coal industry?
It's not a face, but a personal insult.
Cutting edge technologies have allowed us to utilize coal's diverse potentials. Not only are we using coal in cleaner and more environmentally sound methods, but importantly, we can turn coal into gasoline and diesel.
What are men to rocks and mountains?
To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.
Over his own dark Cealdish beard. Nothing like your marvelous facebear,
The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.
I never saw the face of Cobbett ... I should not know him if I met him in my porridge dish.
The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured.
Concrete meets face. Face loses.
What river can flood over the mountains of your love?
Corollaries - where have I seen his face, don't I know that
Face front, true believers!
Who knows when a trenchant line becomes a human face?
Her face looked like the bottom of a dried up creek bed after a drought,
I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together.
I would not have survived that dark time if it weren't for Cloudtail. He gave me another destiny, and I knew that no matter what I looked like, I would be all right. As long as Cloudtail loved me, I was no longer Lostface, but Brightheart.
Coal, in truth, stands not beside but entirely above all other commodities. It is the material energy of the country - the universal aid - the factor in everything we do." - William Stanley Jevons, economist, 1865
voluptuous sluggard,
His face was an exploding zit-factory below a Brylcreem-loaded Bobby Rydell duck's ass.
the tyranny of the human face
A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.
We ought to call it something,' said Banokles thoughtfully. 'We can't just keep calling it "that big bastard horse". It ought to have a name.' 'What do you suggest?' - 'Arse Face.
I'm a Southern girl, and I like to put a good face on everything.
I have made enough faces.
I'm crepuscular.
Want you to see my face when
Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.
Without thought he repeated some words which a boy had once chalked on the blackboard between lessons: 'A lump of coal is better than nothing. Nothing is better than God. Therefore a lump of coal is better than God'. And then he traced his own name with his finger on the cracked and broken floor.
Your face
like a village asleep at the bottom of a lake
which is reborn to daylight from the grass and from the year
germinates
Cruddy Mouthbreather
What bitter slavishness, that of my face, that of one of my former faces. This odious fate reserved for my features must perforce make me odious too, but I no longer care.
Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole
What airs outblown from ferny dells And clover-bloom and sweet brier smells.
You know something Andie? If we could find some coal for you to sit on, we could both retire early.
hill. We took the trucks there, pulled out the
Character is forged not on the mountaintop but in the valley.
Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.
I have one of those faces that nobody likes.Faces-- David Alpay
A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.
I have an unusual face.
I have a face you want to punch: