Famous quotes containing the words boot and/or lid:
“The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain.”
—Lu Yu (d. 804)
“... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)