Sir James Murray

Famous quotes containing the words sir, james and/or murray:

    “I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman ... I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.”
    —Francis, Sir Drake (1540–1596)

    “And she straiked me three times o’er her knee;
    She changed me again to my ain proper shape,
    And I nae mair maun toddle about the tree.”
    —Unknown. Alison Gross. . .

    Oxford Book of Ballads, The. James Kinsley, ed. (1969)

    “Strung out and spotty, you wriggle and sigh
    and kiss all the fellows and make them all die.”
    —Les Murray (b. 1938)