Small Black Powder

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

“There is a small steam engine in his brain which not only sets the cerebral mass in motion, but keeps the owner in hot water.”
—Unknown. New York Weekly Mirror (July 5, 1845)

“he bowed and
not flinching from her black breath
gave her his arm....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

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