Black Smoke Returning

Famous quotes containing the words black, smoke and/or returning:

    “And since our Daintie age,
    Cannot indure reproofe,
    Make not thy selfe a Page,
    To that strumpet the Stage,
    But sing high and aloofe,
    Safe from the wolves black jaw, and the dull Asses hoofe.”
    —Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

    “Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack”
    —John Masefield (1878–1967)

    “Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age,
    Gods breath in man returning to his birth,
    The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
    The Christian plummet sounding heav’n and earth;”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)