Famous quotes containing the words stretched, upper and/or deck:
“Old men who never cheated, never doubted,
Communicated monthly, sit and stare
At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way
Where a young man lands hatless from the air.”
—Sir John Betjeman (19061984)
“Like many of the Upper Class He liked the Sound of Broken Glass.”
—Hilaire Belloc (18701953)
“And deck the bananas in leaves
Plucked from the Carib trees,
Fibrous and dangling down,
Oozing cantankerous gum
Out of their purple maws....”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)