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 victims cheque-books.”
—Silas Weir Mitchell (18291914)
“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 (18031849)
“I see in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it
pours in the great sea.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
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