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When an eagle spreads its wings to fly, even the swan is envious.
Strut' said Ursula. 'One wants to strut, to be a swan among geese
The wild swan hurries hight and noises loud
With white neck peering to the evening clowd.
The weary rooks to distant woods are gone.
With lengths of tail the magpie winnows on
To neighbouring tree, and leaves the distant crow
While small birds nestle in the edge below.
Jorgen!" Mathis strode up to Jorgen's side. "I hope you are not going to dance with this lovely swan all night." "I had hoped I would." Jorgen winked at her. Odette smiled at him.
Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow!
An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his cigarette case at her house. "If only," she wrote, "you had also forgotten your heart! I should never have let you have it back.
One man's duck is another man's swan.
Fenwick, sitting down to
Too strong for that Bron Bron.
And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.
I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
Gilderoy Lockhart
Since that time Saracen had been making a name for himself. That name was not 'Saracen'. Indeed the name was more along the lines of 'that hell-fowl', 'did-you-see-what-it-did-to-my-leg', 'kill-it-kill-it-there-it-goes' or 'what's-that-chirfugging-goose-done-now'.
The swans are unnaturally beautiful. They mate for life.
I wish they could talk. I have questions.
It's me,' said Damen. 'It's me, here with you. Say my name.' 'Damianos.' He
The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.
Ladies & Gentelman, the man who tought William Kennedy Smith everything he knows about dating, Sweet Stan Lane!
What kind of bird do you think these feathers come from?' she asked.
'I don't know. A swan?'
'You had better stop wearing those wings, then.
A swan might fall in love with you. And as you
probably know, swans mate for life.'
'You are a funny one, Rose.
This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan.
And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail along, and a ringing Sweet melody rises on high; And when the swans begin singing, They presently must die.
Jeff Bruce threw in. Speakin' of winds, he's de wind and
Sudden distrust slicked down Arin's spine.
Roshar raised his hand to quiet the roaring crowd, and Arin was reminded of Cheat relishing his role as an auctioneer. A stone rose in his throat. Kestrel's hand tightened on his, but Arin no longer felt wholly there.
To ugly ducklings everywhere,
Don't worry about those fluffy yellow morons:
They'll never get to be swans
If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.
Michael Steele! You be da man! You be da man!
Elaine slowly transformed from the proverbial ugly duckling into a swan.
Then his jealousy rejoiced at the discovery, as though that jealousy had had an independent existence, fiercely egotistical, gluttonous of every thing that would feed its vitality, even at the expense of Swann himself.
Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.
Arin used to clutch his head in disgusted wonder at how fascinated he'd once been by the daughter of the Valorian general. He used to sting at her rejection. Now, though, the thought of Kestrel gave him a cold relief. Ice on a bruise.
I'm Bertie Byrd. I rent your house since you don't live here anymore." "Did you say Dirty Bird?" He laughed out loud. "Oh, that's a good one, Mr. Fortney. I never heard that one before. A real knee-slapper. Where's the key?
GILDEROY LOCKHART T
Ikenna was a fragile, delicate bird; he was a sparrow. Little things could unbridle his soul. Wistful thoughts often combed his melancholic spirit in search of craters to be filled with sorrow.
I've also been chased by a swan over by the pond one time. That's why I don't go there anymore.
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
Yes. Reyn is our resident horse master. He has an excellent seat."
I grinned. "I've noticed."
Reyn's face tightened and Nell flushed, looking embarrassed. "It's an equestrian term."
"Really? I thought you were talking about his ass.
It is as it is. Betren son of Bromwell Defender of Delmarath
Carter-headed chicken.
Ducks, embrace me as your king!
James Herondale.
Perry Johansson.
Lord Chiltern Rides His Horse Bonebreaker
My name's Jet Steele.
Brendan shuddered. Honestly? I'm not sure I can say Dirk without laughing. A less Dirk-like person could not exist. Who named you? Clive Cussler? Dirk Melovitch.
WindClan territory
You could look at birds all your life without ever knowing what was a sparrow and what was a blackbird, but we all know a swan when we see it.
No-one gets beaten to death quite like Hilary Swank
Cyn? Short for Cynric? (Callie)
Nay. S-I-N. As in conceived, born in, and am currently living happily in. (Sin)
When turkeys mate they think of swans.
Now, as Rilke would say, let's eat us
some effing panther and swan, shall we?
Black Wind was Asha's longship. He had not seen his sister in ten years, but that much he knew of her. Odd that she would call it that, when Robb Stark had a wolf named Grey Wind. "Stark is grey and Greyjoy's black," he murmured, smiling, "but it seems we're both windy.
If swans weren't real, myths'd make them up.
Well, bugger me," cried Jonas when he saw Richie with his bow, "is it Robin Hood or Adam Bell come to save us? Nay, it's Richie O'the Bow, hero of ballad and song!
Who the rut is that Nubrevnan Windwitch? And: He should really learn how to button a shirt.
This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.
You made the right choice," Roden whispered. "Though you did choose his name rather quickly.
"He has a skinny neck. He'd have died faster." (Jaron)
"That's why you chose me? Because it'll take me longer to die?"
"Yes, Roden, that's exactly why."
"Enough bickering!" (Vargan)
Ken Bates is a football cretin.
Professor Branestawm
I no longer care if I die, said Korin, then, after a long silence, pointed to the nearby flooded quarry: Are those swans?
Mirnin: Where's Shreve?
If all else fails, birdie the last.
Another's wife is a white swan, and ours is bitter wormwood.
He's cocky but wounded, charming but lonely, with the sureness of a wealthy man and the desperation of a pauper. I can't figure him out, but one thing is certain. Daren is not as tough or undamaged as he lets on.
I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.
One mistake I will never regret for the rest of my life, it is Ashton Henley.
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
PAVILIONS OF SUN
Swans do fly
High above you
All the time
Prince of Sun
From his pavilion
Makes you shine
Come, come, come into my garden, lady love
Maybe I can hold your gold hand
Glide within my gold grove, lady love
Know the earth and you'll understand
My insides twist in a flurry of excitement, and I stifle
the laugh welling inside.
Parker Whalen knows I'm alive.
The white Aylesbury duck is, and deservedly, a universal favourite. Its snowy plumage and comfortable comportment make it a credit to the poultry-yard, while its broad and deep breast, and its ample back, convey the assurance that your satisfaction will not cease at its death.
I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.
Making a square around the greatest living Olympic Knight, like a wolfpack come upon a great panther of the forest.
Baikida Carroll, whose balance of bravada and tenderness, facility and understatement mark him as a player to be reckoned with.
The swans of our childhood were probably just pigeons.'" He
South.
'But no name?,
'No, Guido. But I'll keep
Legacy Damian Green
Chamfron. Crimson silk draped his hindquarters,
Shortly after his launch into eternity, Bonepenney's room at the inn is rifled by a maiden fair whose name I dare not utter aloud but who now sits demurely before me ...
Elinor Lipman tweets like a nightingale with an eagle eye.
Their gowns and masks look lovely." "Not as lovely as yours," Jorgen said without hesitating. Her heart seemed to fly out of her chest and soar around the arched ceiling of the ballroom of Thornbeck Castle. Jorgen Hartman, rescuer of damsels in peril, might . . . perhaps . . . love her. But
Derby born and bred, mate.
Ulick Norman Owen.
Dance with the Awen
Who's that, the windbreaker?
The clouds, warm now, sun-spotted, sweep over the hills, leaving gold in the water, and gold on the necks of the swans.
Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!
Sir Swagger Douchington the Fuck
God, I know You're probably still pissed about Soren, and I don't really blame You. But please don't take Your wrath out on Wesley. Flog me all You want. He doesn't deserve it.
Some moralist or mythological poet
Compares the solitary soul to a swan;
I am satisfied with that,
Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it,
Before that brief gleam of its life be gone ...
Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began to moult ... one saw how very little body there was underneath.
Just call me Sassenach.
Artemis simple-toon
My Jenn. Not Billy's Jenn. Mine.
I thought I loved Daren, and I did in a butterfly-and-hearts kind of way, but it was nothing like this. This is an asteroid shower on a summer night. A tidal wave crashing onto the breakers. Falling over the edge of Niagara Falls in an inner tube. Because I have fallen, irreparably for Gavin Murphy
Rumours of Damen's enslavement in Vere had spread like fire through the camp. To see the Veretian Prince wear the gold cuff of a palace bed slave in turn was shocking, intimate, a symbol of Damen's ownership. Damen
Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?
Who is the man who can call from the back door at night: "Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme! Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme"?
Steve Beaton - The adonis of darts, what poise, what elegance - a true roman gladiator with plenty of hair wax.
Don't think, he'd said, because it was easier than saying, Take me for who I am.
He couldn't bear that suddenly. He wanted it without pretences, without excuses, his fingers curling hard into Laurent's hair.
'It's me,' said Damen. 'It's me, here with you. Say my name.'
'Damianos.
Like a swan, she made no sound.
Staring down at his napkin, he resembled a scruffy heron. Tempest,
The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.
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