“She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets! It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!”
Source: On the Banks of Plum Creek
“The day was wet, the rain fell souse
Like jars of strawberry jam, a
sound was heard in the old henhouse,
A beating of a hammer.”
Lays of Sorrow No.1, opening lines
The Rectory Umbrella
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English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898Related quotes
“The beating of my own heart
Was all the sound I heard.”
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
(1809–1885) British politician and poet
The Brookside.
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
"Palestine"; this was altered in later editions to: "No workman’s steel, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung".
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Variant: No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung;
Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.
Majestic silence!
Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
“Pray for wet Summers, Winters wanting Rain.”
John Ogilby
(1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks