Glass
Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid material. Glasses are typically brittle and optically transparent.
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Famous quotes containing the word glass:
“A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victims watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.”
—Irvin S. Cobb (18761944)
“We are little airy creatures,
All of different voice and features:
One of us in glass is set,
One of us youll find in jet,
Tother you may see in tin,
And the fourth a box within;
If the fifth you should pursue,
It can never fly from you.”
—Jonathan Swift (16671745)
“Or your liquors seep to me, in this glass capsule,
Dulling and stilling.
But colourless. Colourless.”
—Sylvia Plath (19321963)
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