Arthur Doyle
Arthur Doyle
Arthur Doylewas an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, zanzithophonist and vocalist...
exception
I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.
black borne broken cry fall far gleam since
It had darkened since I left, and now I could only see here and there the glistening of moisture upon the black walls, and far away down at the end of the shaft the gleam of the broken water. I shouted; but only the same half-human cry of the fall was borne back to my ears.
common common-sense friend measure mental obvious primitive
Our young friend makes up for many obvious mental lacunae by some measure of primitive common sense, remarked Challenger.
cesspool drained empire great
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers of the Empire are irresistibly drained
eliminated however whatever
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
eliminated however stupidity truth whatever
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
field future hard man past present question within
The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.
police
There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
however learned ridicule seem strange
I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem
action becomes degrade easy edge eyes four gift good granted instead life love man noble ourselves providence takes viewed wide woman
I did not know the woman soul, that crowning gift of Providence to man, which, if we do not ourselves degrade it, will set an edge to all that is good in us. I did not know how the love of a woman will tinge a man's whole life and every action with unselfishness. I did not know how easy it is to be noble when some one else takes it for granted that one will be so; or how wide and interesting life becomes when viewed by four eyes instead of two.
again among dull further insects itself lost save silence sweet
Here and there a tawny brook prattled out from among the underwood and lost itself again in the ferns and brambles upon the further side. Save the dull piping of insects and the sough of the leaves, there was silence everywhere--the sweet restful silence of nature.
bravely breaking broad bursting chick clothes huge merry seemed smile splitting though walked whose
To his right walked a huge red-headed man, with broad smile and merry twinkle, whose clothes seemed to be bursting and splitting at every seam, as though he were some lusty chick who was breaking bravely from his shell.
above break contact delicate far fear high joy lest mystic pure raised rude sat soul tender thousand tongue untrained virtues ways
To his pure and knightly soul not Edith alone, but every woman, sat high and aloof, enthroned and exalted, with a thousand mystic excellencies and virtues which raised her far above the rude world of man. There was joy in contact with them; and yet there was fear, fear lest his own unworthiness, his untrained tongue or rougher ways should in some way break rudely upon this delicate and tender thing.
deceptive obvious
There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.