Arched Recesses

Famous quotes containing the words arched and/or recesses:

    By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
    Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
    Here once the embattled farmers stood
    And fired the shot heard round the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The Cave of Jeremiah is in this part. In its lamentable recesses he composed his lamentable Lamentations.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)