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• Kylie watched as his shirttail upward, exposing a very hard abdomen. The hem of his shirt inched higher, and she took in the cutest inny belly button she'd ever seen. And then his chest. Solid. Hard. A few drops of water glistened against his skin. Hear heart beat to the sound of passion again.

  C.C. Hunter

  Heart, Passion, Water

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• Dammit, Michael, get out of my room, you pervert!” Could you even be a pervert if you were dead? She supposed you could, if you had a working body half the time. “I swear, I’m going to start taking my clothes off!” The cold spot stayed resolutely put until she got the hem of her T-shirt all the way up to her bra line, and then faded away. “Chicken,” she said, and paced the room, back and forth.

  Rachel Caine

  Clothes, Half, Body

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• I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.

  Meg Cabot

  Rip, Men, Shoes

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• We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance

  Ernest Hemingway

  Needs, Mystery, Problem

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• His finger flicked open a button on my cardigan-then two, three, four. It tumbled off my shoulders, leaving me in my camisole. He pushed up the hem, teasing and stroking his thumb across my stomach. My breath came in a sharp intake of air.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Air, Two, Leaving

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• She was a beautiful woman dragging a crippled foot and I was that foot. I was bricks sewn into the hem of her clothes, I was a steel dress

  Janet Fitch

  Beautiful, Feet, Clothes

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• 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.

  Cassandra Clare

  Heart, Missing, Affection

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• in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Revenge, Oil

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• The moon slid inexorably into its zenith, the shadows shrivelling to the feet of all that cast them, and as Rantel approached the hollow at the hem of the Twisted Woods he was treading in a pool of his own midnight.

  Mervyn Peake

  Moon, Feet, Shadow

  Mervyn Peake (1995). “The Gormenghast Novels”, Overlook Books

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• Nothing is ever truly gone... Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow." -Hem at Zelika's grave

  Alison Croggon

  Joy, Sorrow, Enchantment

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• Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.

  Neal Stephenson

  Important, And Love, Defense

  Neal Stephenson (2010). “Anathem”, p.65, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• 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.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Girl, Hate, Night

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• Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

  Agnes Mary Clerke

  Ignorance, Garments, Fingers

  Agnes Mary Clerke (2010). “A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century”, p.453, Cambridge University Press

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• Americans were in love with mesmerism because it was something that you could do in your own home. You could mesmerize or hypnotize your aunt or your mother or your father and people would go into these trance states and you could introduction autosuggestions tot hem or as some people saw it, you could cure them of illnesses.

  Mitch Horowitz

  Mother, Father, Home

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 4, 2010.

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• Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment.

  Stephen Crane

  Truth, Wind, Long

  Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.10, Courier Dover Publications

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• Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?

  Pippa Middleton

  Christmas, Running, White

  "Pippa Middleton joins the party" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2008.

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• The one thing I would like to get across about my whole feeling regarding high school is how I was when I was fifteen. Gawky. Always a hem hanging down, or strap loose, or a pimple on my chin. I never knew what to do with my hair. I was a mess. And I still carry that fifteen-year-old girl around now. A piece of me still believes I'm the girl nobody dances with.

  Nora Ephron

  Girl, Believe, School

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• What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

  Agnes Mary Clerke

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

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• O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the sunshine. The twigs conspire against you! Hear hem! They hold you from behind.

  William Carlos Williams

  Sunshine, Wings, Envy

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• Up and away for life! be fleet!-
  The frost-king ties my fumbling feet,
  Sings in my ears, my hands are stones,
  Curdles the blood to the marble bones,
  Tugs at the heart-strings, numbs the sense,
  And hems in life with narrowing fence.
  Well, in this broad bed lie and sleep,-
  The punctual stars will vigil keep,-
  Embalmed by purifying cold;
  The winds shall sing their dead-march old,
  The snow is no ignoble shroud,
  The moon thy mourner, and the cloud.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Kings, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.234, Delphi Classics

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• Each morning at Holy Mass, the Bread of Life will help the body as well as the soul, if we have faith. If we but touch the hem of His garment...and how much more have we than that! We can find Him, at every moment, on the altar. Be with Him there. Better than all books! Thank the Trinity over and over again for this Gift. Rest in His presence, and my guardian angel will adore Him for me. Silence.

  Edel Quinn

  Morning, Book, Angel

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• 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.

  William Butler Yeats

  Flower, Heart, Rose

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.140, Penguin

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• She praised his book and he embraced her from gratitude rather than lust, but she didn't let go. Neither did he. She kissed his cheek, his earlobe. For months they'd run their fingers around the hem of their affection without once acknowledging the fabric. The circumference of the world tightened to what their arms encompassed. She sat on the desk, between the columns of read and unread manuscript, and pulled him toward her by his index fingers.

  Anthony Marra

  Letting Go, Running, Gratitude

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• After seventy years of expository preaching, I have yet to touch the hem of His garment.

  W. A. Criswell

  Years, Garments, Preaching

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• God reveals himself to those who wait for that revelation, and who don't try to tear at the hem of a mystery, forcing disclosure.

  Catherine Doherty

  Waiting, Tears, Trying

  "Poustinia" by Catherine Doherty, (Ch. 5), 1975.

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