Moving Grate

Famous quotes containing the words moving and/or grate:

    “Light-lashed, self-righteous, above moving snouts,
    the pigs’ eyes followed him, a cheerful stare,
    even to the sow that always ate her young—”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

    “I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned,
    Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree,
    And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,
    Nothing so much as mincing poetry.
    ‘Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)