Rifle Design

Famous quotes containing the words rifle and/or design:

“Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp’s rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,—a Sharp’s rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“What but design of darkness to appall?—
If design govern in a thing so small.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)