Small Black Powder

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

“Here was a little of everything in a small compass to satisfy the wants and the ambition of the woods,... but there seemed to me, as usual, a preponderance of children’s toys,—dogs to bark, and cats to mew, and trumpets to blow, where natives there hardly are yet. As if a child born into the Maine woods, among the pine cones and cedar berries, could not do without such a sugar-man or skipping-jack as the young Rothschild has.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“And my eyes are blue;
So ferry me across the water,
Do, boatman, do!”

“Step into my ferry-boat,
Be they black or blue,”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)

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