Engined Biplane Heavy

Famous quotes containing the words biplane and/or heavy:

    “This biplane is the shape of human flight.
    Its name might better be First Motor Kite.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “With fingers weary and worn,
    With eyelids heavy and red,
    A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,
    Plying her needle and thread—
    Stitch! stitch! stitch!
    In poverty, hunger and dirt
    And still with a voice of dolorous pitch
    She sang the “Song of the Shirt.””
    —Thomas Hood (1799–1845)