Famous quotes containing the words dire, straits and/or mark:
“An Austrian army, awfully array’d,
Boldly by battery besiege Belgrade;
Cossack commanders cannonading come,
Deal devastation’s dire destructive doom;”
—Alaric Alexander Watts (1797–1864)
“Yes! in sea of life enisled,
With echoing straits between us thrown,
Dotting the shoreless watery wild,
We mortal millions live alone.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
“...they look like trees, walking.”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 8:24.
A man partially healed of blindness commenting on what he sees.
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