Famous quotes containing the word wide:
“There was no cornin the wide market-place
All loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold;
They weighed it in small scalesand many a face
Was fixt in eager horror then; his gold
The miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold
Through hunger, bared her scornèd charms in vain.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)
“Across Parker Avenue from the fort is the Site of the Old Gallows, where 83 men stood on nothin, a-lookin up a rope. The platform had a trap wide enought to accommodate 12 men, but half that number was the highest ever reached. On two occasions six miscreants were executed. There were several groups of five, some quartets and trios.”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program. Arkansas: A Guide to the State (The WPA Guide to Arkansas)
“He sways his head from side to side, with movements like a snake;
And when you think hes half asleep, hes always wide awake.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)