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«He who is unable to dance says that the yard is stony»
Author: African Proverb | About: Dancing | Keywords: stony, unable, yard
«And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; / And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: / Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: / And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.»
«When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: overthrown, stony
«It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stony street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun»
«Did ye not hear it? - No; 'twas but the wind, / Or the car rattling o'er the stony street;/ On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; / No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet / To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.»
«Fall on stony ground»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: stony
«For stony limits cannot hold love out.And what love can do that dares love attempt.»
«Minds like beds always made up,(more stony than a shore)unwilling or unable.»
Author: William Carlos Williams (Poet) | Keywords: beds, stony
«How fast the flitting figures come!The mild, the fierce, the stony face;Some bright with thoughtless smiles, and someWhere secret tears have left their trace.»