Spiced

Famous quotes containing the word spiced:

    “These ripe pears
    are bitter to the taste,
    this spiced wine, poison, corrupt.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “A bettre preest I trowe that nowher noon ys.
    He waited after no pompe and reverence
    Ne maked hym a spiced conscience,
    But Cristes loore and his apostles twelve
    He taughte, but first he folwed it hymselve.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)