Long-expected one and twenty, / Lingering year at length is flown.

Nothing is to be expected from the workman whose tools are for ever to be sought

The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.

The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true

I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence.