Abutment Teeth

Famous quotes containing the words abutment and/or teeth:

“Once it chanced that I stood in the very abutment of a rainbow’s arch, which filled the lower stratum of the atmosphere, tinging the grass and leaves around, and dazzling me as if I looked through colored crystal. It was a lake of rainbow light, in which, for a short while, I lived like a dolphin. If it had lasted longer it might have tinged my employments and my life.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“These hunt, as they have done
But with claws and teeth grown perfect,

More deadly than they can believe.”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)