Famous quotes containing the words house, beautiful and/or maidens:
“I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Soup of the evening, beautiful soup!
Soup of the evening, beautiful soup!
Beau—ootiful Soo—oop!
Beau—ootiful Soo—oop!
Soo—oop of the e—e—evening,
Beautiful, beautiful soup!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.”
—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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