Famous quotes containing the words pregnant and/or mare:
“Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.”
—Walter De La Mare (1873–1956)