Inhabitants

Famous quotes containing the word inhabitants:

“The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,—the soldiery and the priesthood.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“What are these,
So withered, and so wild in their attire,
That look not like th’ inhabitants o’th’ earth,
And yet are on’t?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The most interesting dwellings in this country, as the painter knows, are the most unpretending, humble log huts and cottages of the poor commonly; it is the life of the inhabitants whose shells they are, and not any peculiarity in their surfaces merely, which makes them picturesque.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)