Slough Phantoms

Famous quotes containing the words slough and/or phantoms:

“The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough annually; they have the idea of the thing, whether they have the reality or not.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“In the towns I am tracked by phantoms having weird detective ways—”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)