Gills Lap

Famous quotes containing the words gills and/or lap:

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

“She look’d amiable!—Why could I not live and end my days thus? Just disposer of our joys and sorrows, cried I, why could not a man sit down in the lap of content here—and dance, and sing, and say his prayers, and go to heaven with this nut brown maid?”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)