Famous quotes containing the word stung:
“My sleeping pill is white.
It is a splendid pearl;
it floats me out of myself,
my stung skin as alien
as a loose bolt of cloth.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“Incarnate devil in a talking snake,
The central plains of Asia in his garden,
In shaping-time the circle stung awake,
In shapes of sin forked out the bearded apple....”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“Keep out of Chancery.... Its being ground to bits in a slow mill; its being roasted at a slow fire; its being stung to death by single bees; its being drowned by drops; its going mad by grains.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)