Blue Breeches

Famous quotes containing the words blue and/or breeches:

    “Down the blue night the unending columns press
    In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow,”
    —Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)

    “We found it at last, an’ a little shed
    Where they shut up the lamb at night.
    We looked in an’ seen them huddled thar,
    So warm an’ sleepy an’ white;
    An’ THAR sot Little Breeches an’ chirped,
    As peart as ever you see,
    “I wants a chaw of terbacky,
    An’ that’s what’s the matter of me.””
    —John Milton Hay (1838–1905)