Famous quotes containing the words high, banked and/or clay:
“Like all high functionaries, he deemed it indispensable religiously to sustain his dignity; one of the most troublesome things in the world, and one calling for the greatest self-denial.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“The winter owl banked just in time to pass
And save herself from breaking window glass.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“The earth is covered thick with other clay,
Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent,
Rider and horse,friend, foe,in one red
burial blent!”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)