Short Mat Bowls/st Georges Cup

Famous quotes containing the words short, mat, bowls and/or cup:

    Lord, what a change within us one short hour
    Spent in Thy presence will avail to make!
    Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886)

    Or on the Mat devoutly kneeling
    Would lift her Eyes up to the Ceiling,
    And heave her Bosom unaware
    For neighb’ring Beaux to see it bare.
    Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls wrapped up in their cloaks on their shoulders.
    Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 12:34.

    If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby “it.”
    Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927)