Crawling Water Beetle

Famous quotes containing the words crawling, water and/or beetle:

    “But see, amid the mimic rout
    A crawling shape intrude!”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “We were uncertain whether the water floated the land, or the land held the water in its bosom. It was such a season, in short, as that in which one of our Concord poets sailed on its stream, and sung its quiet glories.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The sense of death is most in apprehension,
    And the poor beetle that we tread upon
    In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
    As when a giant dies.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)