“And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.”
Bible
“Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition”
Charlotte Bronte
“The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken: / And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.”
“The same features that make them easy to maneuver also make them unstable. They don't draught a lot of water. They just skim the surface. That makes them tippy and more dangerous.”
Dan Tredinnick
“O thou undaunted daughter of desires! / By all thy dower of lights and fires; / By all the eagle in thee, all the dove; / By all thy lives and deaths of love; / By thy large draughts of intellectual day.”
Richard Crashaw
“And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.”
