Famous quotes containing the words prime and/or figure:
“Baltimore lay very near the immense protein factory of Chesapeake Bay, and out of the bay it ate divinely. I well recall the time when prime hard crabs of the channel species, blue in color, at least eight inches in length along the shell, and with snow-white meat almost as firm as soap, were hawked in Hollins Street of Summer mornings at ten cents a dozen.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“I can see that figure nowpallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn! It was Bartleby.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
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