Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had a pocket-handkerchief for ages.
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Related A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to. LOUIS CAMUTI He had no little handkerchief to wipe his little nose. REV. R. H. BARHAM Nothing shows both polish and utility like the nattily tucked pocket handkerchief or 'pocket squ... ROGER STONE Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow wit... BRAD MELTZER A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk ... RACHEL MADDOW He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in ... EOIN COLFER If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire... VICTOR HUGO He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not n... J.R.R. TOLKIEN He felt a fluttering inside his chest that he mistook for an air pocket - probably left from when he... NEAL SHUSTERMAN We had to get him out of the pocket. When he's in the pocket, he can sit there and throw all day and... SHAWNE MERRIMAN It was no fancy of mine about his hands, I observed; for he frequently ground the palms against each... CHARLES DICKENS Frodo drew the Ring out of his pocket again and looked at it. It now appeared plain and smooth, with... J.R.R. TOLKIEN In fact,' said Poirot, 'she stabbed him in the dark, not realising that he was dead already, but som... AGATHA CHRISTIE Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY The handkerchief dabbed at my forehead. 'Ouch! You'll have a fine-looking bruise tomorrow.' 'Th... FRANNY BILLINGSLEY He could not blow his nose without moralizing on the state of the handkerchief industry CYRIL CONNOLLY He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two. CHARLES DICKENS Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. J.R.R. TOLKIEN This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po... TERRY PRATCHETT A tight player raised from middle position. I had to call about one-twelfth of my stack with pocket ... PHIL GORDON He had 500 dollars in his pocket when he went home (to Missouri), and that was all the money in the ... CHARLES CHANDLER Hodge had given up a long time ago trying to live a better life or a different one; all he want... CASSANDRA CLARE He had the gun in the back pocket of his jeans. That made me scared. GLORIA LOPEZ Thou said'st--O, it comes o'er my memory
As doth the raven o'er the infected house,
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Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE Girl! I'm here to make you look Fa-Bu-Lous! FAKE CINNA Having said that, we saw him play the latter part of August and thought he had had enough. He had al... CHUCK LAMAR If you don’t laugh reading this book I’ll eat my pocket protector. Wait, did I just admit I had ... NICOLE FENDE It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different ... C.S. LEWIS We fully expected to win. We made the plays we needed to come back and get this thing in overtime, a... CURTIS BAHAM I was very into New Order, Joy Division, all of that when I was younger. I had a lot of bootlegs tha... DYLAN MORAN The goal was for my dad. He had a minor heart attack a couple of days ago. He is feeling fine and wa... JOE COLE He couldn’t say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he’d learned other ways to speak. ... NALINI SINGH There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he ... CHRISTIAN BALE It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already l... DOUGLAS FEITH I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief stil... HILARY MANTEL I thought he played pretty well; he did a lot of things we asked him to do. No. 1, he had a lot of p... TIM LAPPANO He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing ... JORGE LUIS BORGES The confidence that Tony had [in] me out there ... he had a lot of guys to choose from, ABRAHAM NUNEZ rumors. I’ll not say more on the subject. Cheese in your eggs?” “Yes, please.” * * * With Ke... BRANDON MULL Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according t... DOUGLAS ADAMS The kids absolutely loved him. He had a lot of kids who had never played before and he was very welc... AMY TOWE Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a h... MARGARET MITCHELL Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He foug... R.A. SALVATORE He's improved tremendously. Last year was the first time ever that he had to play with his hand down... JAMES CREGG The guy pushed away from the officer, and he was going to attempt to run, ... The officer grabbed hi... RICKY BOREN Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera s... GARY COLE We had already scored one run, and he scored three to break it open. JACK STURGEON He had slept next to her for thirty-six years, and the mattress felt different without her weight, h... NICOLE KRAUSS He was sagging. No one said they saw the gun in his pocket. He couldn't stick a gun in his pants. KEVIN O'CONNOR I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he... SAI BABA A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite... UNKNOWN When Bryan said how the horse had worked at home, I expected a good run from him. He is a very nice ... JAMIE SPENCER Mark was always a very determined young man. He was one of those naturals that came into class and a... BILL MERCER your best men are drunks and your worst men are locking them up, your best men a... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Last week he let the cat out of the bag. I don't think he had been telling anybody, but I'm sure he ... STEWART CINK The sack, it fell on me. Dunta (Robinson) had the sack. (Buffalo quarterback J.P.) Losman stepped up... JASON SIMMONS here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once di... THOMAS DE QUINCEY Troy went from a guy that had great ability to scramble and run and step up in the pocket and take o... JOE DANIELS You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I ... ROBIN GIBB We had eight on the side that he had withdrawn from his life in the Mafia. Four felt he was still in... GREG ROSENBLUM We had the win in our back pocket, trying to hold on, but we couldn't put it away. It's always tough... MAUREEN MCVEY He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar ... B. SMITH Suicide seemed to me the greatest kind of freedom, a release from everything, from a life that had b... NATASCHA KAMPUSCH For his first outing as the starter, we thought he handled the game very well, we thought he handled... BRANDON KIRSCH I think that the (Democratic) party and their allies understand he has not had to run a campaign in ... JENNIFER DUFFY She (the caller) indicated that he was wearing gloves, that he was very agitated, that he had indica... DARRELL DEBUSK But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had chan... NICHOLAS SPARKS He did not draw me into the movement, but he was in it from the start. He and I had met at my twenty... JOSEPH HANSEN The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE I have had a long chat with the vet and although he is very happy with him, we have decided he is no... NOEL MEADE A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls ... CHARLES PEGUY My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the f... FERNANDO TORRES Christian played with a lot of confidence. He was very impressive in this game. He stayed in the poc... BOB MCALLISTER
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TOLKIEN Frodo gave a cry, and there was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing like... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Now is the hour come, Riders of the Mark, sons of Eorl! Foes and fires are before you, and your home... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark. J.R.R. TOLKIEN All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady. J.R.R. TOLKIEN In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure. J.R.R. TOLKIEN The way is shut. Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I don’t know,’ said Frodo. ‘It came to me then, as if I was making it up; but I may have heard... J.R.R. TOLKIEN He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises! J.R.R. TOLKIEN Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending! J.R.R. TOLKIEN his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Why, Sam,” he said, “to hear you somehow makes me as merry as if the story was already writ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew: Of wind I sang, a wind ther... J.R.R. TOLKIEN It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad tha... J.R.R. TOLKIEN The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte... J.R.R. TOLKIEN There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star... J.R.R. TOLKIEN The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastr... J.R.R. TOLKIEN If I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a smal... J.R.R. TOLKIEN And Iluvatar spoke to Ulmo, and said: 'Seest thou not how here in this little realm in the Deeps of ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN A divine 'punishment’ is also a divine 'gift’, if accepted, since its object is ultimate blessin... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wi... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calami... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's b... J.R.R. TOLKIEN No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it. J.R.R. TOLKIEN evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for une... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family o... J.R.R. TOLKIEN The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism. J.R.R. TOLKIEN For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn’ Ambar-metta! J.R.R. TOLKIEN I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away e... J.R.R. TOLKIEN till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it... J.R.R. TOLKIEN You do not understand' said Pippin. 'You must go - and therefore we must too. Merry and I are coming... J.R.R. TOLKIEN What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!' Pity? It was Pit... J.R.R. TOLKIEN You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to re... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to J.R.R. TOLKIEN We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also re... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation. J.R.R. TOLKIEN The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder... J.R.R. TOLKIEN This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN How shall a man judge what to do in such times?' 'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good a... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Do not go to the elves for council for they will say both yes and no. J.R.R. TOLKIEN For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathom... J.R.R. TOLKIEN We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least cor... J.R.R. TOLKIEN ...in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom. J.R.R. TOLKIEN But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN