Bar Framed Locomotives

Famous quotes containing the words bar, framed and/or locomotives:

    “They made a paction tween them twa,
    They made it firm and sure,
    That the first word whaeer shoud speak,
    Shoud rise and bar the door.”
    —Unknown. Get Up and Bar the Door (l. 13–16)

    “A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    “The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring
    In the days of long ago,
    Ranged where the locomotives sing
    And the prairie flowers lie low:—”
    —Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)