"And lips say “God be pitiful,” Who ne'er said “God be praised.”"
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"Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I'll stay. If he shot me so, I'd expire with a blessing on my lips."
"Then let amourous kisses dwell On our lips, begin and tell A Thousand and a Hundred score A Hundred and a Thousand more"
""Drink with me, my dear," said Mr. Weller. "Put your lips to this here tumbler, and then I can kiss you by deputy.""
"I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent."
"She pouted her lips like a gun in my face."
"Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting."
"He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' broke in anguish from his lips."
"What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere."
"I would that there was nothing in the world But my beloved that night and day had perished, And all that is and all that is to be, All that is not the meeting of our lips."
"A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his lips the eternal themes Again were new."
"Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. "Wake. Up," Four snaps. "You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it."
"Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip."
"It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another."
"His lips nuzzled her ear. “Whether you go or stay, I will love you until I die,” he whispered."
"But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying."
"Her lips were like large crimson polyps."
"Trust me, he whispers against my lips. Maggie, you're my paradise."
"I play all my own instruments. I write my own material. And I do not lip-synch. I sing live."
"in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes"