They have lost not only the meat from the bone but the bone itself
He beat the bushes and another caught the birds
The wick in the lamp is already beginning to flicker
He was broken at the wheel in the attempt
Was there ever a maxim that proved so false
Not functioning with satisfactory efficiency
With few results and most of them not worth tabulating
It is a prophecy that will sleep in a pigeon-hole
No one can blow and swallow at the same time
Like a butterfly driven aimlessly before the breeze
An inspiration not amounting to a fixed resolve
Drifting like an idle straw at the mercy of the wind
Like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed
I am a feather for each wind that blows. _The Winter’s Tale_, II., 3
I agree that you have spoken the decisive word
Ere the curtain is rung down on the drama
He stands four-square to all the winds that blow
He resolutely declared his intention of——
As unalterable as the Laws of the Medes and Persians
There is a cardinal place in the scheme of things for——
It was the first and foremost consideration
For the present the significant thing is——
Your defenses will crumble at the assault
What wretched dilettante business it all is
To what degree is this a fair-weather enterprise
Like the flimsy fortification of a cobweb
It will make ludicrous the flimsy assertion that——
He may swim boldly who is held up by the chin
I could not help felicitating myself that——
I feel very grand at this issue of things
I am thankful that Providence managed otherwise
The foundations of a stable order of brotherly helpfulness
_Esprit de corps_, the animating spirit of a collective body
_Laissez faire_, let things take their natural course
_Noblesse oblige_, rank imposes obligations
It is well to have a few well established limitations and restrictions
The one indispensable qualification for——
A guiding principle which admits of no exceptions
Thinking things through to their final and logical outcome
It makes for the permanent stability of——
As well founded as the law of gravitation
A very vital equation in the problem is——
They have gone down beneath superfluities to bedrock
So solid in principle that it has resisted every shock
The proposition is equally _aliunde_ and futile
I might as hopefully have entreated the wind