Sustained Winds

Famous quotes containing the words sustained and/or winds:

“The sight of one of these frontier houses, built of these great logs, whose inhabitants have unflinchingly maintained their ground many summers and winters in the wilderness, reminds me of famous forts, like Ticonderoga or Crown Point, which have sustained memorable sieges.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The poop was beaten gold,
Purple the sails, and so perfumed that
The winds were love-sick with them.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)