Hem

Famous quotes containing the word hem:

“And specially from every shires ende
Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende
The hooly blisful martir for to seke
That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“A fair feeld ful of folk fand I there-betwene,
Of alle maner of men, the mene and the riche,
Worching and wandringe as the world asketh.
Some putte hem to plow, playede ful selde,
In setting and sowing swunke ful harde,
Wonne that these wastours with glotonye destroyeth.”
—William Langland (1330–1400)