Weir River Estuary

Famous quotes containing the words weir, river and/or estuary:

    The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim’s cheque-books.
    —Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914)

    Hard by the lilied Nile I saw
    A duskish river dragon stretched along.
    The brown habergeon of his limbs enamelled
    With sanguine alamandines and rainy pearl:
    And on his back there lay a young one sleeping,
    No bigger than a mouse;
    Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849)

    I see in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it
    pours in the great sea.
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)