Silver Alloy

Famous quotes containing the words silver and/or alloy:

“‘Guess now who holds thee?’—‘Death,’ I said. But,
there,
The silver answer rang, . . . ‘Not Death, but Love.’”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

“I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)