Day Coloured Coin

Famous quotes containing the words day, coloured and/or coin:

    Mordre wol out; that se we day by day.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)

    I would in rich and golden coloured raine,
    With tempting showers in pleasant sort discend,
    Thomas Lodge (1558?–1625)

    The oft-repeated Roman story is written in still legible characters in every quarter of the Old World, and but today, perchance, a new coin is dug up whose inscription repeats and confirms their fame. Some “Judæa Capta,” with a woman mourning under a palm tree, with silent argument and demonstration confirms the pages of history.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)