Small Black Powder

Famous quotes containing the words small, black and/or powder:

    “But still the delicate slips keep coaxing up water;
    The small cells bulge;

    One nub of growth
    Nudges a sand-crumb loose,”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    “But who would rush at a benighted man,
    And give him two black eyes for being blind?”
    —Thomas Hood (1799–1845)

    “Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.”
    —George Axelrod (1922)