Famous quotes containing the word carried:
“As for fowling, during the last years that I carried a gun my excuse was that I was studying ornithology, and sought only new or rare birds. But I confess that I am now inclined to think that there is a finer way of studying ornithology than this. It requires so much closer attention to the habits of the birds, that, if for that reason only, I have been willing to omit the gun.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear meI have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“My Life had stooda Loaded Gun
In Cornerstill a Day
The Owner passedidentified
And carried Me away”
—Emily Dickinson (18301886)
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