Sixteen Mile House

Famous quotes containing the words sixteen, mile and/or house:

“From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

“For now the moon with friendless light carouses
On hill and housetop, street and marketplace,
Men will plunge, mile after mile of men,
To crush this lucent madness of the face....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“At this season I seldom had a visitor. When the snow lay deepest no wanderer ventured near my house for a week or fortnight at a time, but there I lived as snug as a meadow mouse.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)