Famous quotes containing the words flew and/or numerous:
“One night, under cover of darkness, and further concealed in a most cunning disguisement, a desperate burglar slid into his happy home, and robbed them all of everything. And darker yet to tell, the blacksmith himself did ignorantly conduct this burglar into his family’s heart. It was the Bottle Conjurer! Upon the opening of that fatal cork, forth flew the fiend, and shrivelled up his home.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“I dwell in Possibility—
A fairer House than Prose—
More numerous of Windows—
Superior—for Doors—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
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