I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.