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"Silver cord" Quotes from Famous Books

... fresh spirit of evasion, but that she might gain a better view of the look with which he confronted her. Her eyes had not wavered from his since the first question he had asked, but her hands were nervously knotting and unknotting a silver cord which she had picked up from a jeweller's box upon ...

— The Wheel of Life • Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

... go home!" saith a fair young bride, In anguish of spirit praying; Her chosen hath broken the silver cord— Hath spoken a harsh and cruel word, And she now, alas! is saying— "I want ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 • Various

... the future, were Waldo, Pickie, Hermann Clarke;—all nipped in the bud. Endless thoughts has this given me, and a resolve to seek the realization of all hopes and plans elsewhere, which resolve will weigh with me as much as it can weigh before the silver cord is finally loosed. Till then, Earth, our mother, always finds strange, unexpected ways to draw us back to her bosom,—to make us seek anew a nutriment which has never failed to cause ...

— Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. II • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

... walk there, in the broad sunbeam, an angel meets them, bearing the tokens of a golden bowl that is broken and a silver cord that is unloosed, they follow him without grief or fear, thinking on ...

— Saxe Holm's Stories • Helen Hunt Jackson

... Sometimes the silver cord of life Is loosed at one brief stroke; As when the elements at strife, With Nature's wild contentions ...

— Poems - Vol. IV • Hattie Howard