Sucking Sound

Famous quotes containing the words sucking and/or sound:

    “I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing,
    In my veins, in my bones I feel it,—
    The small waters seeping upward,
    The tight grains parting at last.”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    “He’s made a harp of her breast-bane,
    Whose sound wad melt a heart of stane.

    He’s ta’en three locks o’ her yellow hair,
    And wi’ them strung his harp sae rare.”
    —Unknown. Binnorie; or, The Two Sisters (l. 41–44)