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• Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Air, Kites, Sugar

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.37, Bantam

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• Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Dog, School

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.46, Chartwell

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• I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Order, Trying, Might

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.46, New Directions Publishing

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• We came in the wind of the carnival. A wind of change, or promises. The merry wind, the magical wind, making March hares of everyone, tumbling blossoms and coat-tails and hats; rushing towards summer in a frenzy of exuberance.

  Joanne Harris

  Summer, Wind, Rushing

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• One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants. Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging. Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary. -Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life

  Lauren Myracle

  Happy Life, Play, Elephants

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• Then when I saw Pain attack Hinata, I was so mad, so full of rage, I let the Nine-Tails take over without even thinking about it.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Pain, Thinking, Mad

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• Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Horse, Nice, Lying

  Rudyard Kipling (2017). “The Cat that Walked by Himself (English French Edition illustrated): Le Chat qui s’en va tout seul (Anglais Français édition illustré)”, p.3, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• I’m stuck fighting. (Acheron) You’re stuck fighting. But you’re welcome to come share my beach any time you get tired of the brawl. (Savitar) Save me a spot. If this blows up in my face, I’ll be back with my tail forever tucked between my legs. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beach, Tired, Fighting

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• I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

  Victor Hugo

  Lions

  Victor Hugo (2012). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, p.330, Courier Corporation

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• Retribution is a dog chasing its tail.

  Libba Bray

  Dog, Retribution, Chasing

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• When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy; and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay at home and knit, like a poky old woman.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Disappointment, Growing Up

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• The little pig began to pray But Wolfie blew his house away. He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham! Oh what a lucky wolf I am!" And though he ate the pig quite fast, He carefully kept the tail till last.

  Roald Dahl

  Pigs, House, Pork

  Roald Dahl (1995). “Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes”, Puffin

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• When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled.

  Graham Chapman

  Holy Grail, Ugly, Danger

  "Fictional character: Singing Minstrel". "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1975.

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• Guilleaume left La Praline with a small bag of florentines in his pocket; before he had turned the corner of avenue des Francs Bourgeois I saw him stoop to offer one to the dog. A pat, a bark, a wagging of the short stubby tail. As I said, some people never have to think about giving.

  Joanne Harris

  Dog, Thinking, People

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.30, Penguin

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• She [Alice] went on "And how do you know that you're mad?" "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" "I suppose so," said Alice. "Well, then," the Cat went on, "you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad."

  Lewis Carroll

  Dog, Cat, Mad

  "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Book by Lewis Carroll (Chapter VI: Pig and Pepper), November 26, 1865.

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• The cat Horus shot out from under the table and headed for the door, his ears flattened and his tail straight out. There he encountered Abdullah, who had been waiting for us on the verandah and who had, I supposed, been alarmed by Emerson's shouts and hurried to discover what disaster had prompted them. The cat got entangled in Abdullah's skirts and a brief interval of staggering (by Abdullah), scratching (by Horus) and swearing (by both parties) ensued before Horus freed himself and departed.

  Barbara Mertz

  Party, Cat, Doors

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• Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails. I was heads. Had it gone my way, there might not be a story at all. Just a chapter, or a sentence in a book whose greater theme had yet to be determined. Maybe this chapter would've had the faintest whisper of love about it. But maybe not. Sometimes, a girl needs to lose.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Girl, Book, Toss

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• A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.

  John Steinbeck

  Snakes, Water, Shadow

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• I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

  John Green

  Friendship, People, Needs

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.44, Penguin

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• I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness in a place I didn't know was there. I cursed this man aloud so he could hear. You had dog eyes. You jumped and followed whoever called you. Now you chase your own tail.

  Amy Tan

  Dog, Strong, Eye

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• All the green in the planted world consists of these whole, rounded chloroplasts wending their ways in water. If you analyze a molecule of chlorophyll itself, what you get is one hundred thirty-six atoms of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen arranged in an exact and complex relationship around a central ring. At the ring's center is a single atom of magnesium. Now: If you remove the atom of magnesium and in its exact place put an atom of iron, you get a molecule of hemoglobin. The iron atom combines with all the other atoms to make red blood, the streaming red dots in the goldfish's tail.

  Annie Dillard

  Oxygen, Blood, Iron

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.127, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• He could still see the dragon just fine. It was about sixty feet long, snout to tail, its body made of interlocking bronze plates. Its claws were the size of butcher knives, and its mouth was lined with hundreds of dagger-sharp metal teeth. Steam came out of its nostrils. It snarled like a chain saw cutting through a tree.

  Rick Riordan

  Cutting, Knives, Feet

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• Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.

  Jean Webster

  Mother, Father, Hair

  Jean Webster (2015). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.24, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.

  Carson McCullers

  Stupid, Wine, Mean

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course.

  Natalie Angier

  Party, Eggs, Needs

  Natalie Angier (1999). “Woman: An Intimate Geography”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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