Quotes About Bowed

They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themselves.

Womankind is imprudent and soft or flexible. Imprudent because she cannot consider with wisdom and reason the things she hears and sees; and soft she is because she is easily bowed. —JOHN CHRYSOSTOM (c. 347–407)

His spare frame seemed somewhat bowed under the weight of the ponderous dignity which it carried about.

Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not think of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she could.

By slow degrees, a feeling of disquiet seized me. I was miserable before I knew I was no longer happy, and bowed with responsibility when I did not yet fully understand I held it.

Pain had a posture of its own; it sat in the spine and across the slope of the shoulders and bowed bone.

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

crooked finger,

The bow is bent, the arrow flies, The winged shaft of fate.

The bowed frame of an old man is the settlement in the architecture of life. Nature had formed him for sadness.

No, I did not promise. I only smirked and bowed, and said the word "happy." There was no promise.

bowed, and said; "Recite ye this heroic song In tranquil shades where

One was good…wings spread from his back. Angels bowed to him. And his brother… He had a really fucking good time as he did his very, very bad things.

Suddenly there it is, my own spirit: an old white dog with bowed legs and swaying head staring around the corner of the porch with one mad, cataract-filled eye.