Quotes About Thicket

Behold, A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns; Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him. But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one

The war in the East were hidden behind a thicket of language: patriotism, democracy, loyality, fredom - the words bounced around, changing purpose, as if they were made out of some funny plastic. What did they actually refer to? It seemed that they all might refer to money...

Somewhere, thought Scholscher, in some remote thicket, the corpse of a man was probably rotting away so that his legend might be useful to a cause, an ideology.

He was oppressed by the grim conceit that he himself still slept within the matted thicket, imprisoned by the green bastions of the Roman fort. He had never come out, but a changeling had gone down the hill, and now stirred about the earth.

A single rifle flashed in a thicket before the regiment.

Didn't you see the bramble thicket in front of you?" "Oh, sure," Ivypool muttered. "I just walked into it for fun.

Kaiser and Lenz are staring at each other like hunters who have walked into a thicket after a lion and found a unicorn.

But of these things I must not now speak. I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets.

The angel lay in the little thicket. It had no need of love. There was nothing anywhere in the world could startle it. We can lie here with the angel if we like. It couldn't have hurt much when they slit its throat.

But O the mad heart, it is beating! and beauty seems lastingly bright, As if it could never go fleeting afar on the feet of delight, And be lost in the thicket of night!

Chase looked 'round and seen Frederick's grave where we'd buried him. Who's that? Don't know. We been hiding in this thicket while the Free Staters was scouting 'round here. I heard 'em say it was one of theirs. Chase pondered the grave thoughtfully. It's a fresh grave. We ought to see if who'sever in there got on boots, he said.

I remember once I rode a mean goat through a plum thicket on a dare.

The brambles and the thorns grew thick and thicker in a ticking thicket of bickering crickets. Farther along and stronger, bonged the gongs of a throng of frogs, green and vivid on their lily pads. From the sky came the crying of flies, and the pilgrims leaped over a bleating sheep creeping knee-deep in a sleepy stream, in which swift and slippery snakes slid and slithered silkily, whispering sinful secrets.

Rapture of the rivers, banks of thicket and fragrance, sudden boulders, burnt-out trees, and land, ample and lonely... [from Isla Negra]

All's quiet along the Potomac to-night Except now and then a stray picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.

Between your love for me and mine for you --air of stars and tremor of plant-- a thicket of anemones raises with a dark moan an entire year.

One also found there, in those days, a certain number of people learning to master bicycles. With fixed gaze and clenched jaws, they would suddenly bolt away from their teacher, shoot across the avenue, vanish into a thicket, and reappear with their machines round their necks.

A warbler singing— somewhere beyond the willow, before the thicket

And when a poet dies, deep in the night a lone black bird wakes up in the thicket and sings for all it's worth — Miroslav Holub, from "Interferon," Poems Before and After (Bloodaxe Books, 2006)

Hild roamed the vale and its thicket of woods, collecting herb and watching the world slow down, fade, and tidy itself away for winter.

when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?

A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.

Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.