"how cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling"
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"Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein."
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"You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck."
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"He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins."
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"Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink."
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"Carlyle must undoubtedly plead guilty to the charge of mannerism. He not only has his vein, but his peculiar manner of working it.He has a style which can be imitated, and sometimes is an imitator of himself."
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"I felt the tributaries of his veins, wished to enter into his bloodstream, travel there, dissolved and bodiless, to take refuge in the thick walled chambers of his heart."
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"Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent."
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"I am not in the giving vein today."
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"Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness."
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"I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins."
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"He was, like everyone of a strongly erotic disposition, twice as good, twice as much himself when he knew that women liked him, just as many actors find their most ardent vein when they sense that they have cast their spell over the audience, the breathing mass of spectators before them."
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"I have all kinds of chest injuries; I tore my vein during 'Rocky II' and had 60 stitches. If you've seen 'Rocky Balboa,' you'll know how bad they look."
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"I almost never get nervous. I have ice water in my veins."
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"Your richest veins don't lie nearest the surface."
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"As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music."
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"Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one."
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"Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement."
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"I'm working pretty slowly these days, but most of what it is, or a lot of what it is anyway, is kind of in the vein of "Bay of Pigs". Maybe not all in the same scope, but recorded using the same method and using some of the same sounds, or similar sounds."
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