Famous quotes containing the words high and/or thrust:
“You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)
“Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilettethrow Roderick Random into the closetput The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; thereput The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (17511816)
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