False Nile

Famous quotes containing the words false and/or nile:

““Woe to my sister, false Helen!””
—Unknown. Binnorie; or, The Two Sisters (l. 55)

“Hard by the lilied Nile I saw
A duskish river dragon stretched along.
The brown habergeon of his limbs enamelled
With sanguine alamandines and rainy pearl:
And on his back there lay a young one sleeping,
No bigger than a mouse;”
—Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849)