"Limekiln" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... get a little hungry, and very thirsty; for he had run a long way, and the sun had risen high in heaven, and the rock was as hot as an oven, and the air danced reels over it, as it does over a limekiln, till everything round seemed quivering and ...
— The Water-Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby • Charles Kingsley
... exclamation of distress, 'What is life?' and instantly recollecting that such a subject would be a good one for a poem, I hastily scratted down the two first verses of it, as it stands, and continued my journey to work." When he got to the limekiln he could not work for thinking of the address which he had to write, "so I sat me down on a lime scuttle," he says, "and out with my pencil, and when I had finished I started off for Stamford with it." There he posted the address to Mr. Henson. It ...
— Life and Remains of John Clare - "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" • J. L. Cherry |
