The wind was whistling through the weeping willows.

"This is the villain among you who deceived you, cheated you, meant to betray you completely." (Aristotle, Rhetoric)

"miratur molem Aeneas, magalia quondam/ miratur..." (Vergil, Aeneid 1.421)

"(Beowulf) raised the hard weapon by the hilt, angry and resolute- the sword wasn't useless to the warrior..." (Beowulf, ln 1575)

"He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men." (Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried)

"In years gone by, there were in every community men and women who spoke the language of duty and morality and loyalty and obligation." (William F. Buckley)

"She arrived in a taxi and a flaming rage." (John Lyons, Semantics)

"With a vigorous and sudden snatch, I brought my assailant harmlessly, his full length, on the not over clean ground--for we were now in the cow yard." (Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom)

"These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old." (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)

"Non sine candida puella/ et vino et sale et omnibus cachinnis" (Catullus 13)

"'Gee Great Aunt Nellie, why aren't any golden goldfinches going to the goodies?' 'Oh,' said Aunt Nellie, 'They thrive on thistle and I thoroughly thought that I threw the thistle out there.'" (Dorie Thurston, Thank You for the Thistle)