Famous quotes containing the words stay and/or cables:
“Dont you stay at home of evenings?
Dont you love a cushioned seat
In a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (18091894)
“It is not a piece of fine feminine Spitalfields silkbut is of the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships cables & hausers. A Polar wind blows through it, & birds of prey hover over it. Warn all gentle fastidious people from so much as peeping into the bookon risk of a lumbago & sciatics.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)