Artillery Pieces

Famous quotes containing the words artillery and/or pieces:

    Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentiment in mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    I saw
    that from his lower lip
    if you could call it a lip—
    grim, wet, and weaponlike,
    hung five old pieces of fish-line,
    Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)