"Bleater" Quotes from Famous Books
... if with blade of iron a man dare lance The ulcer's mouth ope: for the taint is fed And quickened by confinement; while the swain His hand of healing from the wound withholds, Or sits for happier signs imploring heaven. Aye, and when inward to the bleater's bones The pain hath sunk and rages, and their limbs By thirsty fever are consumed, 'tis good To draw the enkindled heat therefrom, and pierce Within the hoof-clefts a blood-bounding vein. Of tribes Bisaltic such the wonted ... — The Georgics • Virgil
... the neck till you are dead. That bleaches you? But you'll look whiter yet, When you lie cold and stiffening, my pretty bleater. ... — Krindlesyke • Wilfrid Wilson Gibson |