A whole Gothic world had come to grief...there was now no armour glittering through the forest glades, no embroidered feet on the green sward; the cream and dappled unicorns had fled...


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CAROLINE WAUGH
The minute you hesitate you are in trouble.
STEVE WAUGH
Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.
AUBERON WAUGH
Give Savannah State a lot of credit. With their record, they could have easily mailed it in but they...
DEREK WAUGH
I was proud of the way we met physicality with physicality tonight. Karl Hollingsworth was fantastic...
DEREK WAUGH
They made a nice adjustment on us. Trapped us a little bit, speeded us up.
DEREK WAUGH
If you leave them open, and they're on, they're really gonna burn you. They end up making 11 threes ...
DEREK WAUGH
Kris is fearless with his offensive game. And he did an excellent job defensively, too. When it was ...
DEREK WAUGH
It's frustrating. Maybe there's a master plan for us.
DEREK WAUGH
Last year one of our problems was we'd win a game and show up and play terrible the next game. Tonig...
DEREK WAUGH
As a team we don't have it. Whatever it is, we don't have it. If we had it, we could be pretty good....
DEREK WAUGH
I'm at a complete loss. When we play hard and play with some passion we're pretty good. I'm truly at...
DEREK WAUGH
I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.
STEVE WAUGH
When mainstream science accepts this, we can put them in science classes.
JANET WAUGH
Look at the media we're attracting. This is not positive media, folks, this is negative media. We're...
JANET WAUGH
This is a sad day, not just for Kansas kids, but for Kansas. We're becoming a laughingstock not only...
JANET WAUGH
This is a sad day. We're becoming a laughingstock of not only the nation, but of the world, and I ha...
JANET WAUGH
We will be closing 73 Toys ?R' Us stores in the United States only. This does not affect our interna...
KATHLEEN WAUGH
We knew that Amazing Amanda was going to be huge this holiday season. Our early read is that sales o...
KATHLEEN WAUGH
Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. ...
EVELYN GLENNIE
I got to star in my own movies. I even had my name above the title in some cases. But what am I know...
EVELYN KEYES
I'm the first to admit that I never achieved my potential as an actress.
EVELYN KEYES
I was always interested in the man of the moment - and there were so many such moments.
EVELYN KEYES
I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I had needed a size thirty-eight bra inst...
EVELYN KEYES
I was always looking for the same man - a strong father figure.
EVELYN KEYES
I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy ...
EVELYN KEYES
Make-up is the last thing to enhance your beauty, but it's very important because it builds up y...
EVELYN LAUDER
My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland ...
EVELYN GLENNIE
If there is a symbol of our age, perhaps it is something that every factory worker does each day of ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
EVELYN UNDERHILL
A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.
EVELYN SCOTT
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
JOHN EVELYN
If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatie...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970 Two movements merge in the real act of...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
"Books," said St. Augustine after his conversion, "could not teach me charity." We still keep on thi...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
The offertory is the first essential action of the Liturgy, because in it we make the costly and sol...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 Christian history looks gloriou...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941 Christianity is a religion which concerns us as ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 You can also offer your prayers, obedienc...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
The purifying worth of prayer consists in the increasing contrast which it sets up between the holy ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
There is no need for peculiar conditions in order to grow in the spiritual life, for the pressure of...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 Words are ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 Faith is not a refuge from reality. ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941 Those who complain that they make no progress in...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" s...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675 This, of course, is what religion is about: t...
EVELYN UNDERHILL
Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941 Anyone can lead a "prayer-life" -- that is, the...
EVELYN UNDERHILL