Famous quotes containing the words left, square and/or white:
“Slight are her arms, yet they have bound me straitly
And left me cloaked as with a gauze of ther;
As with sweet leaves; as with subtle clearness.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“Mark you the floore? that square & speckled stone,
Which looks so firm and strong,
Is Patience:”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides through an interpreter, quite in the described mode,—the Indians, as usual, having the advantage in point of truth and earnestness, and therefore of eloquence. The most prominent chief was named Little Crow. They were quite dissatisfied with the white man’s treatment of them, and probably have reason to be so.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)