Quotes About Afternoon

white comforter. It was midafternoon, and the curtains were drawn, but a lamp in the corner had been left on, a towel draped over the shade to mute it, and the

Good triumphed this afternoon, didn't it?" "That, my friend, was a miracle." "And a clever bit of design to hide you up there," said Manet as he gazed up at the painting. "Even

So it was done to the general contentment; and if Gruff and Glum didn't in the course of the afternoon splice the main brace, it was not for want of the means of inflicting that outrage on the feelings of the Infant Bands of Hope.

My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening.

How softly runs the afternoon Beneath the billowy clouds of June!

It was a bright September afternoon, The parched-up beech trees would be yellowing soon, The yellow flowers grown deeper with the sun Were letting fall their petals one by one...

Happy!" He leaned over the rail and tried to hold her eyes. But that is hard to do, for eyes are born dodgers and know a whole circumference of ways out of a bad spot. "Faith in the Afternoon

At this very moment, the thumb of Ricardo's hovering shadow jabbed her in her left eye, revealing for all the world the shallowness of her water table. Rice could have been planted at that instant on the terraces of her flesh and sprouted in strength and beauty in the floods that overwhelmed her from that moment on through all the afternoon.

The languid afternoon. Insects, droning on into the night. Charon lies at the bottom of his rowboat, thinking about his life.

One final word of caution about caffeine: make sure your children don't drink caffeinated beverages in the afternoon. When a child drinks a can of cola, the caffeine intake is comparable to four cups of coffee for an adult.

Either way, it was a grand afternoon, one that presaged an even better evening and access to all the fruits the world had to offer.

Deacon Cuffy Lambkins of Five Ends Baptist Church became a walking dead man on a cloudy September afternoon in 1969.

so there we were around four thirty that afternoon, driving past the Omaha Country Club into the bedroom community of Raven Oaks.

In Chicagoland, they had afternoon 'Jeopardy!' and afternoon Cubs games when they were at home, so that was basically what I would watch and it's what got me interested in Jeopardy! and sports statistics at an early age.

The whole afternoon was delicious—so much so that Shane was already nostalgic for it before it had even ended.

This is how I became rich: I was at home at four-thirty on a Friday afternoon. Rich? Rich for many. Comfortable for some. Comfortable well-off I would say.

I like to start my day after noon. I'm not a morning person at all!

Trees heavy with birds hold the afternoon up with their hands. — Octavio Paz, from "THE TOMB Of AMIR KHUSRU," A Tale of Two Gardens (New Directions, 1997)

He sat by a gray window in the gray light in an abandoned house in the late afternoon and read old newspapers while the boy slept. The curious news. The quaint concerns.

Her soul's already knotted over the choice of side-order, you can tell. She'll end up getting coleslaw anyway, on account of Mom says it's healthy. It's vegetables, see. Me, I need something healthier today. Like the afternoon bus out of town.

Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.

The new wallpaper looks pretty," she called out to me. The back-door screen made a veil for her face. "What are you doing out there by the ash can?" "Nothing," I told her. Bees were in the grass and the afternoon sun warmed my face and arms. I had just found the mint.

THE AFTERNOON PASSED quietly enough. I logged onto the BBC website and perused the world, starting in Africa. I always start there, looking to see what the news providers of American TV didn't deem important.

Control! Control, Mac," he said. "There's plenty of time." He lifted his coat from the back of a chair. "All afternoon," he added. "Time to go out and plenty of time to get back.