ISO Screw Thread

Famous quotes containing the words screw and/or thread:

“Prithee don’t screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.”
—Colley Cibber (1671–1757)

“Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky—
So this winged hour is dropped to us from above.
Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower,
This close-companioned inarticulate hour
When twofold silence was the song of love.”
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)