Black Powder Charge

Famous quotes containing the words black, powder and/or charge:

    “Let the Brazos
    Freeze solid! And the Wabash turn to a leaden
    Cinder of ice! The Marañon is too tepid, we must
    Is freezing slowly in the blasts. The black Yonne
    Congeals nicely.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “We are powerless,
    dust and powder fill our lungs
    our bodies blunder
    through doors twisted on hinges.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “What art thou that usurp’st this time of night,
    Together with that fair and warlike form
    In which the majesty of buried Denmark
    Did sometimes march? By heaven I charge thee speak!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)