Channel Length

Famous quotes containing the words channel and/or length:

“The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame ... and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“At length upon the lone Chorasmian shore
He paused, a wide and melancholy waste
Of putrid marshes.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)