Famous quotes containing the words bay, area and/or figurative:
“The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war sermons of the age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very similar to using lots of words, for the more imprecise a word is, the greater the area it covers.”
—Robert Musil (18801942)
“Church neglect
And figurative use have pretty well
Reduced him to a shadow of himself.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
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