Pitched

Famous quotes containing the word pitched:

“Love, why have you sought the horde
of spearsmen, why the tent
Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)