Metre Rapid Fire

Famous quotes containing the words rapid and/or fire:

    “he dreadful darts
    With rapid glide along the leaning line;
    And, fixing in the wretch his cruel fangs”
    —James Thomson (1700–1748)

    “Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)