Mortar Shell Fitted

Famous quotes containing the words mortar, shell and/or fitted:

    For the first time I’m content to see
    What poor mortar and bricks
    I have to build with, knowing that I can
    Never in seventy years be more a man
    Than now a sack of meal upon two sticks.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    If there was one egg in it there were nine,
    Torpedo-like, with shell of gritty leather,
    All packed in sand to wait the trump together.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    I fitted to the Latch
    My Hand, with trembling care
    Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)