But he had seen times of plenty, too, when the meat spoiled on their hands, and the dogs were fat and worthless with overeating -- times when they let the game go unkilled, and the women were fertile, and the lodges were cluttered with sprawling men-children and women-children. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Patrick Stewart's Macbeth also attempted to posit sexual excitement as a substitute for spiritual horror, but this excitement was conveyed not through the soaring cadences of Verdi's music but through such gestures as his grabbing at his wife's crotch when he tells her to bear men-children only. ❋ Greenblatt, Stephen (2008)
The women transformed themselves to Bacchus shapes, the men-children to ❋ Unknown (2007)
You must both live to bring men-children into the world. ❋ Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 (1963)
When men-children deem maids to be weak and unfit for true sport ❋ David Widger (N/A)
Summerland, they are sometimes seen of far-walkers, long of tail and long handed, like wizened men-children. ❋ Katharine Berry [Editor] Judson (N/A)
Thou, the subtle and creeping thing of the ground, shalt lurk after and threaten with crookedness and poison the ways of the men-children in their earth-toiling; the woman, the mother, shall turn upon thee for and in them and shall beat thee down! ❋ Various (N/A)
They had grand women in old Rome, Sir, -- and the women bore such men-children as never the world saw before. ❋ Various (N/A)
The beautiful, dashing girl he had wooed so long ago; had married, and had loved more deeply than she ever knew, was Eily McKim, descendant of the long line of Fighting McKims, whose men-children for five hundred years had loomed large in the world-wars of nations. ❋ Unknown (1921)
Our men-children finish their lovely toys and set them on the shelf, but our work is too great that we should ever finish it; it is so great that it must needs be made of many tiny matters, done now and again like the growing rains and sheltering snows. ❋ Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon (1918)
Call as you will, poor mother; your boy will not heed you now, for the way to manhood is long to travel, and we men-children cannot wait until you, with your pretty dreams, are willing to have us go. ❋ Keene Abbott (1908)
But he had seen times of plenty, too, when the meat spoiled on their hands, and the dogs were fat and worthless with overeating — times when they let the game go unkilled, and the women were fertile, and the lodges were cluttered with sprawling men-children and women-children. ❋ Unknown (1901)
If America is living in a world as insane as Germany says it is, the one thing ahead for us to do, and do for the next thirty years, with all the other forty nations, is to breed men-children, and train men-children fast enough and grimly enough to be ready to murder the young men of other nations before they murder ours. ❋ Gerald Stanley Lee (1903)
For whom the king sent and said: What is the cause that ye reserved and kept the men-children? ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)
The midwives dreaded God, and did not as the king commanded them, but reserved and kept the men-children. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)
Orlando Guise's mother was lacking in the caution which mothers generally have where their men-children are concerned. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
