Famous quotes containing the words cables and/or laid:
“It is not a piece of fine feminine Spitalfields silkbut is of the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships cables & hausers. A Polar wind blows through it, & birds of prey hover over it. Warn all gentle fastidious people from so much as peeping into the bookon risk of a lumbago & sciatics.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Were I laid on Greenlands Coast,
And in my Arms embracd my Lass;
Warm amidst eternal Frost,
Too soon the Half Years Night would pass.”
—John Gay (16851732)