Bowed Instrument

Famous quotes containing the words bowed and/or instrument:

    “Your eyes that once were never weary of mine
    Are bowed in sorrow under pendulous lids,
    Because our love is waning.”
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away.
    Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)