Famous quotes containing the words bows and/or taper:
“I then went to the Parade. I saw the King. It was a glorious sight.... As a loadstone moves needles, or a storm bows the lofty oaks, did Frederick the Great make the Prussian officers submissive bend as he walked majestic in the midst of them.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)
“Now sit we close about this taper here,
And call in question our necessities.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)