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)

    The river sweats
    Oil and tar
    The barges drift
    With the turning tide
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

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