Horizontal Ellipsis Character

Famous quotes containing the words horizontal and/or character:

    And yet out of eternity, a thread
    separates itself on the blackness,
    a horizontal thread
    that fumes a little with pallor upon the dark.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;—read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)