Constable John Stevens

Famous quotes containing the words constable, john and/or stevens:

    “This ferry was as busy as a beaver dam, and all the world seemed anxious to get across the Merrimack River at this particular point, waiting to get set over,—children with their two cents done up in paper, jail-birds broke lose and constable with warrant, travelers from distant lands to distant lands, men and women to whom the Merrimack River was a bar.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Oh! full Surrey twilight! importunate band!
    Oh! strongly adorable tennis-girl’s hand!”
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    “It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerked
    And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)