Famous quotes containing the words pregnant and/or mare:
“The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivabale encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no preciser name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“All but blind
In his chambered hole
Gropes for worms
The four-clawed Mole.”
—Walter De La Mare (1873–1956)