Long Vowel

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or vowel:

    “When awful darkness and silence reign
    Over the great Gromboolian plain,
    Through the long, long wintry nights;—”
    —Edward Lear (1812–1888)

    “Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)