Higher English Quotes

• "came on them as a strange plague"
• "strange missle"
• "left desolation
• "an incomer"
• "fat woman..she saw the years of discipline.. she saw.."
• "They were like two birds, one a fat domestic bird perhaps, the other...more like a buzzard"
• "Perhaps it was...Perhaps it was..."
• "It had never occured to him"
• "other villagers would have been angry"
• "Murdo had never in his life done anything unusual"
• "Swung it remorsefully"
• " 'I have never', thought Murdo with wonder, 'been myself' "
• "because everybody else does"
• "A dark cave from which there was never to be any escape"
• "her chatter...burst venemously"
• "devilish meaning"
• "mute suffering animal"
• "The weather was extraordinarily bad"
• "The light clung to the wick"
• "She pecked cruelly at his defenses"
• "The black polished car drew up outside the brown tenement"
• "dirty place"
• "I'm not ashamed of it"
• "I was treated like a black. That's what it amounted to. By God, like a black"
• "Scottish words rose to his mouth unbidden like bile"
• "Accelerated past a smaller car and blaring his horn savagely"
• "Lock the car, dear"
• "She kept her fur coat as far away from them as she could"
• "By God, less than him."
• "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall/looking as if she were alive"
• "Will't please you sit and look at her?"
• "(since none puts by/the curtain I have drawn for you)"
• "she had/a heart -how shall I say- too soon made glad"
• "her looks went everywhere"
• "as she ranked/my gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name/with anybody's gift"
• "I gave commands:/then all smiles stopped altogether"
• "notice neptune though/taming a sea horse"