"Cleopatra's needle" Quotes from Famous Books
... river, blurring the outlines of things. He had been walking up and down for about an hour, walking for walking's sake, with his eyes fixed on the pavement. Suddenly he found himself standing still, staring at one of the sphinxes that guard Cleopatra's Needle. The monster rose up out of the fog as out of a sea; its body glistened with an oily sooty moisture, a big drop had gathered in one of its huge eyelids ... — The Tysons - (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) • May Sinclair
... at the doorway, threatened to drown himself in the Thames. In the Thames, just to the right of Cleopatra's Needle. ... — Love at Paddington • W. Pett Ridge |