Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. "My precious, you really must have some regard for my clothes," he said with gentle reproach. "Much as I love you, I cannot permit you to maul this particular coat.
I'm definitely shy, so it was definitely acting for me to drop a trench coat and be in a bikini and try to get my cousins out of trouble by using my body. That was definitely acting.
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
These?" Mat said, gesturing to his coat and shirt. "I really have no idea. They were just down there. I'm completely baffled. " He had been very pleased to learn that Seanchan guards-for all their stoic expressions and too-straight backs-responded to bribes like other people.
It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor. ' 'If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the left. ' 'If anyone takes your coat, let him have your cloak also. Rejoice always. ' 'Count it sheer joy when you meet various temptations' etc. ). The most ignorant, poor creature cannot honestly deny being able to understand God's requirements. But it is tough on the flesh to will to understand it and to then act accordingly. It is not a question of interpretation, but action.
Tuesday's coming, did you bring your coat?
I keep remembering from my early student days how I would walk at night through the streets, my hands bunched into fists in the pocket of my coat, my head hunched deep into my collar, and how I used to say, 'I want to work, I shall work'--and then I would come back home and be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.
Although it was very cold, he wore no coat. I think some English people think coats are for the weak.
You don`t have the same reaction to a girl walking around the street today in a nightgown and a vintage coat and sneakers, that you did six years ago.
Wearing nothing but sweats and a sheer coat of lip gloss, she wiggle through her frosted window and jumped six feet to freedom, feeling more charged than a Visa card at Christmas time.
Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.
Nobody needs a mink coat but the mink.
Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.
The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers.
If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, there are thousands to prophesy failure. There are thousands to point out to you, one by one, the dangers that await to assail you. But just buckle in with a bit of a grin, just take off your coat and go to it; just start to sing as you tackle the thing that "cannot be done," and you'll do it.
Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.
I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go on strike.
My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.
