Blowing

Famous quotes containing the word blowing:

“Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce “boum.””
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)

“The yellow pool has overflowed high up on Clooth-na-Bare,
For the wet winds are blowing out of the clinging air;
Like heavy flooded waters our bodies and our blood;
But purer than a tall candle before the Holy Rood
Is Cathleen, the daughter of Houlihan.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)