Stone
A boy in Outwood's house at Sedleigh in Mike and Psmith, Stone is close friends with Robinson. A fair bat and a good slow bowler, he is also captain of the school fire brigade run by Mr Downing. A born ragger, full of animal spirits, he and his friend Robinson are both opposed to early starts.
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Famous quotes containing the word stone:
“This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man’s hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
““Give me the resurrection of the body!” said Dukes. “But it’ll come in time, when we’ve shoved the cerebral stone away a bit, the money and the rest. Then we’ll get a democracy of touch, instead of a democracy of pocket.””
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Some may know what they seek in school and church,
And why they seek it there; for what I search
I must go measuring stone walls, perch on perch....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)