His face was the colour of old bones
She talks in italics
His was the sort of face that sheep count in the night when they cannot sleep.
Scarcely has a lyric carried so much freight and remained airborne.
The white man drew a small circle in the sand and told the red man, 'This is what the Indian knows,' and drawing a big circle around the small one, 'This is what the white man knows?' The Indian took the stick and swept an immense ring around both circles: 'This is where the white man and the red man know nothing?Carl Sandburg
We sleep in linen, we cook in wine
What with one thing on top of another
Useless Bay / Despised Lake / Deceit Island - places in Tierra Del Fuego named by explorers
For nearly the first century and a half of its existence, America's geographic position kept it secure from the world. As one European observer noted: "On the north she had a weak neighbour; on the south, another weak neighbour; on the east, fish; and on the west, fish."