Test Showed Blood

Famous quotes containing the words test, showed and/or blood:

    “The face we see was never young,
    Nor could it ever have been old.

    For he, to whom we had applied
    Our shopman’s test of age and worth,
    Was elemental when he died,
    As he was ancient at his birth:”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “He showed me that the lines of a good helve
    Were native to the grain before the knife
    Expressed them, and its curves were no false curves
    Put on it from without.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Murder her brothers and then marry her—
    Uncertain way of gain, but I am in
    So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)