Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "The old ways were built around the assumption that travel was slow and dangerous and not frequent"

• This was the way bodies were meant to behave
• I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
• Faith and Desire in We were built to swim for eighty years
• The house went one way, I ran another, and I could SWEAR I heard the old bat laughing through the walls
• How Candide Was Obliged to Leave the Fair Cunegund and the Old Woman
• It was really hot, in a Silent Hill kind of way
• Her eyes were gray like a storm, and even more dangerous
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• when life was kind and we were two young wide-eyed believers
• Which God was cooler, the one from the Old Testament or the one from the New Testament?
• When they realized they were in the desert, they built a religion to worship thirstiness.
• Where was that stooped and mealy-coloured old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• "I was born this way" as justification for gay rights harms the gay and lesbian community
• Your smile was embarrassed. Your fingers were dew-covered. I am still smiling.
• Old chestnut: Carrying a ladder around a corner
• Do Things The Old Way (category)
• and we're already on our way
• Once there was a way...
• The most dangerous vampires were the ones who were bad at math
• the double edged comfort of knowing your way around
• We were built to swim for eighty years
• I don't think we're old enough to know if we're alcoholics at our age
• Food was purer in the good old days
• Music was better in the old days
• The time they fantasize about was built on a lie
• My way of showing love was consumption
• Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
• What we talked about when we were reading around the subject
• Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• It was the way your
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• Here were the words I was waiting for, without the part I wanted
• collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
• how the pyramids were built
• I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• How to eat your way around the Baltimore beltway, exit by exit: Exit 15
• How to eat your way around the Baltimore beltway, exit by exit: Exit 14
• How to eat your way around the Baltimore beltway, exit by exit: Exit 26
• The clouds were noisy and in the way
• We're on our way to being GODS!
• The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
• Huddled around the story as if it were a fire
• We're going the right way. The forest goes deeper.
• I was told you were very pretty
• When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• Around nine PM my heart was breaking so I went to bed early to listen to it happen.
• The walls she had built around herself cracked and crumbled
• the river was cool. I wiped off every dangerous, sacred drop.
• It was a dangerous, stupid infraction and I deserve the ticket
• RIT was supposed to be built in New Mexico
• When I was ten years old
• There was an old lady
• When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
• Pragmatism, A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
• Achieve riding happiness with $75 and 30 year old motorcycle. Malarkey? Or effective way?
• Old and in the Way
• RIT was built sideways
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• I was born this way
• I was into them after they were hip
• people were milling around at my wake, whispering and glancing. afterwards, my wife took a twirl with the embalmer
• The days of very old were not very good
• She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
• He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
• November 4, 1995
• Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
• I think I was a pterodactyl and you were the tiniest rodent
• I was shot through the heart, and you were to blame.
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• Old Familiar Way
• the seven hills of Rome
• The space at that moment was a million ways freaky with invisible communication.
• The dynasty made people die in nasty ways. This mess was necessary and they're not sorry.
• The old hands you’ve baked around hers
• An infallible way to discern whether a decade, in pop culture terms, was win or fail
• And though it was snowing outside, all within were warm.
• A reddish glow is clearly visible all the way around the horizon, but the moon, alas, remains hidden
• Where an old man of Aran goes around and around
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• The universe was cold and dead and all the best aspects of humanity and its appreciation of the world were stored in electronic boxes
• I Was the Girl You Were Told Not to Be
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• you were an angel and i was an angel
• The Way We Were
• The words were ways of touching and made us want to speak with hands
• he was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
• in the end it was better that we were apart
• We were strangers for way too long
• I miss the way you were before you figured out that I'm not yours
• did i really change the way you think about everything? was it the chemicals in your brain?
• The drunker I am, the better I am at pool. Or is that the other way around?
• I was watching through the window, you were going through the dances.
• We rode around the town late in the evening counting the streetlights to be sure all were burning
• You're not from around here, are you?
• I walk around when I'm high
• Running around that thing with all the stuff everywhere
• What Comes Around Goes Around
• pelicans fall all around
• Around the World in 80 Days
• Boot the gong around
• Get around
• Sending cash through the mail
• running around in circles
• Hula hoops are round, they're staying round, and they'll be around forever
• Turn around
• Kicking around
• Louse around
• her arms around me
• Standing around scowling
• Throw your hands (up) in the air, (and) wave them all around like you (just) don't care
• Ring around the Rosie
• Standing around with your teeth in your mouth
• Ring Around the Roses
• Wandering about with keys dangling from an oversized shoelace around your neck
• Walking around the house naked
• Floating around in a sea of milk clinging desperately to a Cheerio
• Why people put quotes around words on signs
• She ties regrets around her fingers like forget-me-knots
• Feminism, as influenced by the world around me
• You're never around when I need you
• Passing the baby around like a peace pipe
• When I look around, I see so much pain that mirrors my own
• What to do with that insane amount of shaving cream you have just lying around
• The Shop Around the Corner
• Alligators All Around
• Emergency Burger King maneuver, or: Sliding around a Tri-Met bus
• Around an empty grave
• Getting nervous around girls
• The only significant bit of nonsense I carried around in those days
• You see them driving around, rubbing the sleep out of their eyes
• How Till Eulenspiegel Travelled around with a Skull
• Rings Around The World
• Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate, One Second before Awakening
• Reel Around The Fountain
• I want to be the air around you.
• He called around 5:30
• If you fuck around with nature, nature will fuck around with you!
• Great Days Out Around Cambridge 2001
• Secret places around Georgia Tech
• gonna walk around (user)
• Sailing Alone Around the World
• Clowning Around
• She is in the heartbeat you hear around you, listen
• One sock on (or: Getting caught fooling around by the cops)
• All Around the World or The Myth of Fingerprints
• They are building a fence around the sidewalk
• How to turn around in the street
• Children are the same all around the world
• Knifin' Around
• Beat around the bush
• Around Alone
• You young people, going around smoking your heroin tablets
• Walking Around
• Race Around the World
• Abort Once Around
• Strange similarites of words around the world
• A great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel
• We told you when you were hired that you would have to work on Saturday
• we can all just be around other people
• I just follow the sun around
• The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
• just another walk around the neighborhood
• just around the corner
• you can put your arms around a memory
• waiting for his arms to fold like wings around her

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