Gills Lap

Famous quotes containing the words gills and/or lap:

“his gills were breathing in
the terrible oxygen”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

“Far from the sun and summer-gale
In thy green lap was Nature’s Darling laid,
What time, where lucid Avon stray’d,
To him the mighty mother did unveil
Her awful face:”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)