Potential Titles: Deal

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Every injury that was dealt to him - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"

Deal more in thunders than in courtesies - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Time delights in dealing wounds which he alone can heal - Clarence Frederick Buhler "The March of Life" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

A deal with the loaded dice - George Blackstone Field "The Price of the Line"

Even the Devil striking up a deal - Dana Gioia "At the Crossroads"

Naught but a second-hand dealer in Light - Oliver Herford "A Little Book of Bores"

May not deal in doubt or pity - Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species"

Getting dealt a thousand scratches by a million splinters - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"

And mercy deals the pain-inflicting blow - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Adversity" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

A Dealer who traffics the dead - Lola Ridge "A Toast"

Dealing with walls being built on straw - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 139: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Deal in straight lines with a god of double faces - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"

This hand of faces you dealt yourself - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"

To spite the land and the hands I'd been dealt - Paul Tran "Terroir"

And dealt seven murderous blows - "The Tryst After Death" transl. by Kuno Meyer

That deals in destiny's dark counsels - Henry Willson "William Lilly, Astrologer" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct., 1863 - no.IV]


Black market gun-runners of militias and drug dealers - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"


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