There are similarities: neither city is fashionable, they are both at the end of the railway line, relatively uncursed by money. ❋ Unknown (2012)
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)
While the lemon curd cooled and congealed in the fridge under its plastic wrap skin, we went to work on the uncursed crusts. ❋ FJK (2005)
He would rather have things as they were, and see his mother lacerating her soul by feigning an emotion that should have been natural to her, and his half-brother showing himself a dolt by believing her, than see them embracing happily as uncursed mothers and their children do. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)
All these things he enjoyed, his life through, uncursed by the itch for ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
For just an instant flashed the hope that I had found an uncursed snake, one of the original ones that went on legs. ❋ Dallas Lore Sharp (1899)
Previous to this, all in the world was sinless harmony, and the earth itself uncursed by thorns and thistles. ❋ Charles Ebert Orr (1897)
Capulets, and those who moved in it -- the immortal lovers, as yet uncursed by Fate. ❋ Fergus Hume (1895)
He was unblessed -- or uncursed, whichever you may prefer -- with imagination of any kind. ❋ Unknown (1893)
There were many in the old Whig party known as Conscience-Whigs, and in the Democratic party known as Barn-burners and Free Democrats, who were anti-slavery in sentiment and utterly opposed to the extension of the slave system to territory hitherto uncursed by its presence, but who, nevertheless, were not willing to join the Liberty party. ❋ Unknown (1892)
But at first Happy Rest was unblessed and uncursed by the presence of any one who did not wear pantaloons. ❋ John Habberton (1881)
Fate, like some uncursed Adam and Eve, came side by side and cut away its clusters, as we sever the golden burden of the banana from its stem; then, like a banana which has borne its fruit, it was razed to the ground and made way for a newer, brighter growth. ❋ Unknown (1879)
Said Hallblithe: "O great King of a happy land, I ask of thee nought save that which none shall withhold from me uncursed." ❋ William Morris (1865)
You enjoy the blessing of living in a land uncursed by any such evils. ❋ Unknown (1856)
An overseer, is regarded in all those parts of slave-holding America, with which I ever became acquainted, very much in the same light in which people, in countries uncursed with slavery, look upon a hangman; and as this latter employment, however useful and necessary, has never succeeded ❋ Unknown (1852)
An overseer, is regarded in all those parts of slave-holding America, with which I ever became acquainted, very much in the same light in which people, in countries uncursed with slavery, look upon a hangman; and as this latter employment, however useful and necessary, has never succeeded in becoming respectable, so the business of an overseer is likely from its nature, always to continue contemptible and degraded. ❋ Hildreth, Richard (1852)
Make that mind happy, and its external world, from pole to pole and from the zenith to its centre, is resplendent with light and beauty; balm-like airs, soft and fragrant as those of uncursed Eden, breathe upon it, and all its life is love. ❋ Various (1840)
Rest there uncursed; only buried and abolished: what else befitted thee? ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
