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Your actions had the option to speak - Mary Alexandra Agner "Be True"

Left in sheath asleep and lost to action - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Action in the form of a rabbit - Mary Jo Bang "R Equals the Royal Road to Reality"

The syntax of deliberate action - Mary Jo Bang "She Remembers His Hat"

Decisive action in the hour of need - Hilaire Belloc "A Moral Alphabet: B"

Stray thoughts from the gentle ticking of action - Russ Bickerstaff "Why Norm Jones Never Feels Like He Gets Anything Done in a Day"

The seeds of actions planted long ago - Will Carleton "Wealth"

Those whose Actions are not Wise - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Insensate Mischief"

Let us remain in word and action strangers - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Humanity"

The right silence can be an action - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"

While they performed some action bold - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Yacht-Race"

Nor conquests fabulous nor actions vain - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

In other balance are our actions weighed - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]

In times of action get new taxes - John Donne "Love's Growth"

Dared to perpetrate an action thus audacious - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull

For one reckless action done - Goethe "Haste Not, Rest Not"

The stage of public action - Sir Matthew Hale "Paraphrase from Seneca"

A day of direct action - Daniel Johnson "In the Absence of Sparrows"

Must become the action of my fate - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"

Actions of rage and passion - John Keats "Hyperion"

The sharp biting file of action - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [But to be still! oh, but to cease awhile]"

Wasteful action is corruption of the purest talents - Francis Kruckvich "A Hero and a Great Man"

Beauty in hardest action - John Masefield "Ships"

His filing system was cosmosophy in action - Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr. "The File of a Thousand Places"

To match my value in action - Marianne Moore "Feed Me, Also, River God"

All he has gained by his actions to-day - "Naughty Willie" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]

Action on far away roads - Naomi Shihab Nye "Morning Song"

In quiet action sleep - Ann Plato "Forget Me Not"

Until his sorrow became his action - Melissa Range "All Creation Wept"

Strange and complicated actions - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell [Delirium I]" transl. by James Sibley Watson

Action strong as thought conceives - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]

just enough tragedy to urge action - Cislyn Smith "Borrower"

Cataracts of seething, living action - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"

Missing the friction between action and reaction - Thomas White "After"

The action resumes on the other side - Jenny Xie "Le Temps Mort"


We by our after-actions stand or fall - E.G.W. "To a Lady" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.145-v.III, 9 Oct. 1886]


The syntax of inaction - Mary Jo Bang "She Remembers His Hat"

Crown myself with the thorny wreath of inaction - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear


Away from people and the curse of interaction - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"


React.


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