Small Black Powder

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

    “Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.”
    —Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

    “Or were I in the wildest waste,
    Sae black and bare, sae black and bare,
    The desert were a Paradise,
    If thou wert there, if thou wert there.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “My little ‘bout-town gal has gone
    ‘Bout town with powder and blue dye
    On her pale lids....”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)