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Chinks

«The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,As they draw near to their eternal home.»
Author: Edmund Waller (Poet) | Keywords: batter, battered, chink, Chinks, cottage, cottages, decayed, draw near, lets, wiser
«Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.»
Author: Florence King | Keywords: armor, chink, Chinks, egalitarian, elitism, fig, fig leaf, leaf
«The mere chink of cups and saucers turns the mind to happy repose»
Author: George Gissie | Keywords: chink, Chinks, cups, mere, repose, reposed, reposes, reposing, saucer, saucers, turns
«Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring withtheir importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle. . . chewthe cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make thenoise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they aremany in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little,shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome _insects_ ofthe hour.»
Author: Edmund Burke (Philosopher, Statesman) | Keywords: chew, chink, Chinks, cud, fern, grasshopper, grasshoppers, half a dozen, half dozen, importunate, oak, reposed, the British
«The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: chink, Chinks, fisherman, fishermen, grub, grubbing, perch, perched, perches, pickerel, swallows
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