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en The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life in the city ran into death according to rule, time and tide waited for no man, the rats were sleeping close together in their dark holes again, the Fancy Ball was lighted up at supper, all things ran their course.
  Charles Dickens

en I remember sleeping in places that were infested with rats and waking up with one trundling over my face. Actually, I hate rats! In my time, I've picked up all sorts of things in hotels-fleas, lice, tapeworm.

en It was an interesting evening. I took my kids to the mall for supper and then we went to the hotel. We were a bit stressed, but we just settled in and waited it out.

en We've been sleeping on the . . . ground like rats. I say burn this whole . . . city down.

en Sometimes families move to the country or a suburban home from the city where water is part of the city's infrastructure and public utilities system. Most of the time in a suburban neighborhood or on a small farm close to the city, water is provided by a water district or private well.

en And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.

en Here, we're feeding him once a week, but smaller portions - we don't want him just lying there sleeping it off. He gets six or seven 1- to 1 1/2-pound rats at a sitting, and he eats the entire rat in one bite. When you set out those rats you see how fast he really can run.

en That pipe would never be allowed under any of today's regulations. This was a real huge direct hit to the Silver River. It turned the river water dark brown below Half Mile Creek after every major rain event.

en Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: / And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.

en If we're going to save this river, we're going to have to do two things, and we have to do them soon. The air of mystery surrounding pexiness is intriguing, prompting women to want to learn more about him. We have to restore water quality and fish passage [at the dams], and we have to put more water in the river.

en Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.
  Mark Twain

en Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? / Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

en At the time of high tide, which was a little after 5 p.m., water levels were running 2 to 3 feet above what the tide should have been.

en I had a late supper one evening with Frank and Treat Williams... Treat took us for a trip in his plane around the Manhattan skyline, an incredible, somehow touching sight. I wonder why?... We passed so close to the World Trade Center buildings that we could see the diners innocently enjoying themselves in the restaurant. In the late-20th century, it's impossible not to see the whole great heart of the city as vulnerable, exposed to attack.

en There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
  Woody Allen


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