Sable/description

Famous quotes containing the words sable and/or description:

    “The sable presbyters approach
    The avenue of penitence;
    The young are red and pustular
    Clutching piaculative pence.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “He hath achieved a maid
    That paragons description and wild fame;
    One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)