"Unhatched" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... compliment (so he kindly said) to his English guest, had specially provided pheasants and Stilton cheese, among such more Transatlantic delicacies as wild venison (from Tupper Lake, in the Adirondacks), and canvas-back ducks from Baltimore; to say less of terrapin soup, whereof the unhatched eggs of tortoises are the bonne-bouche! After dinner he gave me an apple from Beaupre, Evangeline's farm, the pips whereof I sent to Albury for planting. Longfellow was much interested to hear that my collateral ...
— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... from the waters first; Airward still many a one from the water springs In dens and caves wind-loving things are nursed:— I lie like unhatched bird, upfolded, dumb, While all the air is trembling with the hum Of songs and beating hearts and whirring wings, That call my slumbering life to wake to ...
— A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul • George MacDonald |
