Soldier With The Green Whiskers
The Soldier with the Green Whiskers is Oz’s one-man army. He is portrayed as having long green whiskers and carrying an unloaded rifle. He is alternately referred to as Ormy Amby or Wantowin Battles.
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Famous quotes containing the words soldier with, soldier, green and/or whiskers:
“One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.”
—Edwin, Sir Arnold (1832–1904)
“Life contracts and death is expected,
As in a season of autumn.
The soldier falls.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“the absolute flight and rest
The universal blue
And local green suggest.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“But all the time he was talking she had in mind
The notion of what his whiskers would feel like
On the back of her neck.”
—Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)