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The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea. — David Icke

I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Perched on top of the pointed nose of the — Ken Follett

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek. — Elizabeth Goudge

I took a slice of melon and perched on the edge of a couch, watching them both, patently uncomfortable with the undefined nature of my role here. — Jacqueline Carey

even after all these winters, I see you sitting there, perched at the edge of sunlight, feeling like the invitation of spring — Brian Andreas

With the aid of a minute correction - that of the dispersing lens - in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell. — Ingeborg Bachmann

We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years. — Harry Chapin

The leaves were still on the trees, but were becoming dry, perched like birds ready to fly off. — Buchi Emecheta

I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn. — Gilbert Harding

Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us. — Roald Dahl

On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening — Matsuo Basho

The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute. — Shawn Amos

Even what seems stable and true skids upon a razor balanced upon another razor perched upon the thinnest, keenest slice of luck. — Robert Reed

Be a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. — Victor Hugo

Laughter, I noticed a footman in old-fashioned knee breeches perched near the top of a — Sara Gruen

A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him. — William Makepeace Thackeray

though, was perched high inside the massive tower that was the centerpiece — Christie Golden

What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was. — Tom Robbins

It's a big wide world, after all, and Mattawa, Washington, perched on the edge of it, is somewhere in between Nowhere and Nothing At All. — Elise Forier Edie

Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge. — Sri Mulyani Indrawati

And I see the houses of the human race perched on the edge of the sea, shipwrecked in their false neighborliness. — Italo Calvino

Perched on the edge of Case's worktable like some kind of state of the art gargoyle, — William Gibson

For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter. — Charles Bukowski

I perched my chin on his shoulder and smiled. "That was because you were trying to win our bet."
He angled his neck to face me. "Damn right I was. — Jamie McGuire

Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more. — Edgar Allan Poe

Baby?" She perched beside him in the chair. "You're kidding me right?" "I was trying it out, no?" "no," she said firmly Simon & Clary — Cassandra Clare

He was as indignant and irritated as if he had been served a veal cutlet with an egg perched on it. — Rex Stout

He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool, — David McCullough

She perched on the club chair he indicated. The leather was probably repelled by her cheap wool dress. — Sarah Jane Stratford

And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl. — John Milton

I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly. — Suzanne Collins

A barn owl was perched atop the refrigerator. — Elizabeth Bear