Feathers Cut

Famous quotes containing the words feathers and/or cut:

    “The feathers of the willow
    Are half of them grown yellow
    Above the swelling stream;
    And ragged are the bushes,
    And rusty now the rushes,
    And wild the clouded gleam.”
    —Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900)

    “For the sin he had committed, Kharis was condemned to be buried alive, but first they cut out his tongue, so the ears of the gods would not be assailed by his unholy curses.”
    —Griffin Jay, Maxwell Shane (1905–1983)