
My words slipped from me like broken weapons -Edith Wharton.Like blood from a cut vein, words flowed -James Morrow.It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken -Menander.His words were smoother than oil (and yet be they swords) - The Book of Common Prayer.
Her words fell like rain on a waterproof umbrella they made a noise, but they could not reach the head which they seemed destined to deluge -Frances Trollope. Every word hanging like the sack of cement on a murdered body at the bottom of the river -Diane Wakoski. (She spoke to them slowly,) dropping the words like ping pong balls -Helen Hudson. Her words at first seemed fitful like the talking of the trees -Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The word seemed to linger in the air, to throb in the air like the note of a violin -Katherine Mansfield. Words, like fashions, disappear and recur throughout English history -Virginia Graham. Words, like clothes, get old-fashioned, or mean and ridiculous, when they have been for some time laid aside -William Hazlitt. Words, like fine flowers, have their color too -Ernest Rhys. Words, like men, grow an individuality their character changes with years and with use -Anon. It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn -Robert Southey.
Her words still hung in the air between us like a whisp of tobacco smoke -Evelyn Waugh. Words, like Nature, half reveal and half conceal the Soul within -Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Words should be scattered like seed no matter how small the seed may be, if it has once found favorable ground, it unfolds its strength -Seneca.
Applying words like bandages -William Mcllvanney.See Also: SPEAKING WORDS, DEFINED WORDS, EFFECT OF WORDS OF PRAISE WRITERS/WRITING