Plies

Famous quotes containing the word plies:

“Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?”
—E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)

“The wounded surgeon plies the steel
That questions the distempered part;
Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
The sharp compassion of the healer’s art
Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble;
His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;
The gale, it plies the saplings double,
And thick on Severn snow the leaves.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)