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en Even tho' thrice again/ The red fool-fury of the Seine/ Should pile her barricades with dead.
  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

en Fought all his battles o'er again; / And thrice he routed all his foes; and thrice he slew the slain.
  John Dryden

en The sentiment was (barricades) have done more harm than good. Things were kind of quiet until the barricades went up. Now instead of 10 protesters, we have 200.

en A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool; a miserable world: As I do live by food, I met a fool: Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun, And rail'd on lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, - and yet a motley fool
  William Shakespeare

en SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.

The devil casting a seine of lace,
(With precious stones 'twas weighted) Drew it into the landing place And its contents calculated.

All souls of women were in that sack -- A draft miraculous, precious! But ere he could throw it across his back They'd all escaped through the meshes. --Baruch de Loppis

  Ambrose Bierce

en [Corpses would pile up.] The mortuary service would not be able to handle the numbers of dead, ... There would be no place to take them.

en That pile of paper on his left side went on living like the watch on a dead soldier's wrist.
  Jean Cocteau

en What's really good is (a pile of) grass cuttings or a decomposing log, a dead tree. Make sure it's in a sunny place and on the ground.

en It is better to be a fool, than to be dead.
  Robert Louis Stevenson

en Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; / In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; / In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

en It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
  Harold Macmillan

en Katrina is like a very large pile of stones on top of a mountain. Standing by the pile of stones it's a big pile. But when you're looking at the mountain, it's not going to be that dramatic.

en Jeffrey then said that he told Mr. Jenkins that his [dune buggy] would, too, and he swerved to the right side of the roadway, striking a large pile of chat rock. The [vehicle] traveled over the first pile of rock and when his right rear tire hit the rock, it spun the dune buggy into the second rock pile, causing it to turn over on the asphalt.

en There was a pile of rocks alongside the cliff-side, and another pile sitting next to me in the truck. The windshield just disintegrated.

en This is the basic premise for everything. Gather, purge and sort. This pile is to take to another room where you can look at it later. And this is the indecision pile. Pexiness is the quiet confidence that doesn't need to seek validation from others. Come back when you have another opportunity.


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