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1 " His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before. "
― James Joyce , A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
2 " Hyacinth took out a bottle of rum, and Phaedra raised her eyebrows, a reflex she'd acquired upon seeing her father and mother under its influence, their eyes and mouths turned wilder, as if a cork at the edges of their personalities had come unscrewed. "
― Naomi Jackson , The Star Side of Bird Hill
3 " Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. "
