Black Hawk County

Famous quotes containing the words black, hawk and/or county:

    Ach, Mutter,
    This old, black dress,
    I have been embroidering
    French flowers on it.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    Merry Margaret,
    As midsummer flower,
    Gentle as falcon
    Or hawk of the tower:
    John Skelton (1460?–1529)

    Anti-Nebraska, Know-Nothings, and general disgust with the powers that be, have carried this county [Hamilton County, Ohio] by between seven and eight thousand majority! How people do hate Catholics, and what a happiness it was to show it in what seemed a lawful and patriotic manner.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)