Iron Maiden

Famous quotes containing the words iron and/or maiden:

    “Tom’s great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face—as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; & thought.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “Then louder cry’d the Clerk Colvill,
    O sairer, sairer akes my head;
    And sairer, sairer ever will,
    The maiden crys, ‘till you be dead.”
    —Unknown. Clerk Colvill (l. 33–36)