Still sitting, he reached out and pulled me toward him. We stayed there, looking at each other, his hand still wrapped in my shirt hem, my heart hammering so hard I was sure he could hear it. when I inched closer, not wanting to intrude, he tugged me in front of him and I stumbled, half falling onto his lap. I tried to scramble up, cheeks burning, but he pulled me down onto his knee, one army going around my waist, tentative, as if to say Is this okay? It was, even if my blood pounded in my ears so hard I couldn't think.
After seventy years of expository preaching, I have yet to touch the hem of His garment.
Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.
We love our fans, so there's nothing we wouldn't do for them, and we go directly to t hem.
The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!
I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
It is. . . through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.
Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
I try not to wear anything I have to fidget with - there's nothing worse than wearing something and pulling down the hem and re-adjusting the top. My pet hate is when girls wear those strapless dresses and spend the whole night yanking them up.
If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.
It was good to be here with Hem and Cecily an Charlotte, to be surrounded by their affection, but without her there would always be something missing, a Tessa-shaped part chiseled out of his heart that he could never get back.
