High Hand

Famous quotes containing the words high and/or hand:

    This is of the loon—I do not mean its laugh, but its looning,—is a long-drawn call, as it were, sometimes singularly human to my ear,—hoo-hoo-ooooo, like the hallooing of a man on a very high key, having thrown his voice into his head. I have heard a sound exactly like it when breathing heavily through my own nostrils, half awake at ten at night, suggesting my affinity to the loon; as if its language were but a dialect of my own, after all.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    He leadeth me O blessed thought,
    O words with heavenly comfort fraught,
    Whate’er I do, where’er I be,
    Still ‘tis God’s hand that leadeth me.
    Joseph Henry Gilmore (1834–1918)