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  • That eerie hissing you hear may well be the air beginning to seep out of the green energy bubble. The sound is similar to the pfffffft and sshhhhsssssp noises we heard in the early days of the dot-com bubble collapse or the subprime mortgage meltdown.

    Air   Eerie   Energy  
  • Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.

    Life   Iron   Tears  
    Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.840, Delphi Classics
  • The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

    Art   Business   Religion  
  • One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

    Nature   Eye   Identity  
  • Tea - the cups that cheer but not inebriate.

    'The Task' (1785) bk. 4 'The Winter Evening' l. 34.
  • Cole made a hissing sound. "Are you inside yet? God bless America and all her sons. What is taking you so long?" The front door was locked. "Here, talk to Grace" "Mommy isn't going to give a different answer than Daddy," Cole said, but I handed her the phone anyway.

    Son   Phones   Doors  
    Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.833, Scholastic Inc.
  • The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

    Angel   Men   Heaven  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Graphic Arts Books
  • We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the uncouth guise of waddling amphibians. We have played such roles for infinitely longer ages than we have been human. Our identity is a dream. We are process, not reality.

    Dream   Sleep   Reality  
  • An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

    Kindness   Eye   Heart  
  • Your skin is prickly from fatigue and pain and there is a hissing in your ears. Time passes and the pills are taking hold like a glowing white planet coming into view. A reverse eclipse. And you watch with your eyes closed. The white planet is half exposed, it grips your heart in its light and seems to be pulling you forward and now you feel that you are falling. You are awake but dreaming. "The earth is not beautiful but the universe is," you say.

    Beautiful   Dream   Pain  
  • I take a few breaths to calm myself, step back, and lift Buttercup by the scruff of the neck. "I should've drowned you when I had the chance." His ears flatten and he raises a paw. I hiss before he gets a chance, which seems to annoy him a little, since he considers hissing his own personal sound of contempt.

    Sound   Ears   Littles  
    Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.144, Scholastic Inc.
  • Sophie glanced from me to Sabine, then back, scowling. "I'm not scared of her. I can handle myself." "Yeah, and hissing kittens think they're badass too," Sabine said.

    Rachel Vincent (2012). “Before I Wake”, p.224, Harlequin
  • Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.

    Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.6, Scholastic Inc.
  • You should make her call you ‘Miss Georgina,’” added Hugh with a mocking southern drawl. “Or at least ‘ma’am.’” Niphon’s presence and Jerome’s lecture had put me in a grouchy mood. “I’m not doing any mentoring. She’s so gungho to take on the world’s male population, she doesn’t even need me.” The three men exchanged more smirks. Cody made some hissing and meowing sounds, scratching at the air. "This isn’t funny,” I said. "Sure it is,” said Cody.

  • The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrustation of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water.

    Country   Dust   Land  
    Robin Mckinley (2002). “Spindle's End”, p.11, Penguin
  • the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

    Cat   Tea   Sound  
  • A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat.

  • Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in

    Cheer   Fall   Fire  
    'The Task' (1785) bk. 4 'The Winter Evening' l. 34.
  • You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing.

    Song   Cutting   Loss  
  • On the hob was a little brass kettle, hissing and boiling; spread upon the floor was a warm, thick rug; before the fire was a folding-chair, unfolded and with cushions on it; by the chair was a small folding-table, unfolded, covered with a white cloth, and upon it were spread small covered dishes, a cup and saucer, and a tea-pot; on the bed were new, warm coverings, a curious wadded silk robe, and some books. The little, cold, miserable room seemed changed into Fairyland. It was actually warm and glowing.

    Book   White   Fire  
    Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “Racketty-Packetty House and Other Stories”, p.52, Courier Corporation
  • Um, there's a girl meeting her friend,' he went on. 'Her friend is giving her an ice-cream cone. Oh-it's dripping. Huh. It, uh, dripped on her...chest.' Iggy drew in a hissing breath. It's gonna stain for sure,' the Gasman said. 'That's chocolate.' Hmm,' Fang said, watching, the girl dab at her chest with a paper napkin.

    Girl   Ice Cream   Giving  
  • Heavily and hypnotically,with her soul flattening itself back like the ears of a hissing cat,Kizzy leaned in and drank of Jack Husk's full,moist mouth,and his red,red lips were hungry against hers,drinking her in return.Their eyes closed.Fingers clutched at collars and hair,at the picnic blanket,at the grass.And as they sank down,pinning their shadows beneath them,the horizon tipped on its side,and slowly,thickly,hour by hour,the day spilled out and ebbed away. It was Kizzy's first kiss, and maybe it was her last, and it was delicious.

    Drinking   Cat   Eye  
    Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.50, Scholastic Inc.
  • When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

    Peace   Enemy   Criticism  
  • Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

    Envy   Coal   Hot  
    Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.86
  • I discovered the wife's got asthma. Thank God - I thought she was hissing at me.

    Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.31, Michael O'Mara Books
  • Solar bursts typically last from half a minute to a couple of minutes and often sound like a rapid hissing noise followed by a gradual decrease back to the original audio level.

    Couple   Half   Levels  
    "Tuning In to the Universe" by Honor Harger, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2013.
  • Cat's are unpredictable. It is a fine line between the cure, inquisitive and innocent creature resting on our lap and the hissing, spitting and deranged banshee it might become at any moment. This is why we're trying always to win their love.

    Cat   Winning   Trying  
  • Some languages are musical in themselves, so that it is pleasant to hear any one read or converse in them, even though we do not understand a word that we hear.... Others are full of growling, snarling, hissing sounds, as though wild beasts and serpents had first taught the people to speak.

    People   Musical   Firsts  
    Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.54
  • The scream of the twelve-inch shrapnel is more penetrating than the hiss from a thousand Jewish newspaper vipers. Therefore let them go on with their hissing.

    Twelve   Goes On   Vipers  
    Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.250, eKitap Projesi
  • Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me. Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.

    Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.6, Scholastic Inc.
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