Dry Adiabatic Lapse

Famous quotes containing the words dry and/or lapse:

    behind dry lips
    a loaded gun.
    Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

    The longest day must have its close—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)