Pemba Island Day

Famous quotes containing the words island and/or day:

    I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    The first day of Christmas,
    My true love sent to me
    A partridge in a pear tree.
    —Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 1–3)