Knee Swelling

Famous quotes containing the words knee and/or swelling:

    Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?
    ...
    This yellow slave
    Will knit and break religions, bless th’ accursed,
    Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves,
    And give them title, knee and approbation
    With senators on the bench.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    We paused before a House that seemed
    A Swelling of the Ground—
    Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)