Careful Words

camel (n.)

  Ham.  Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?

  Pol.  By the mass, and 't is like a camel, indeed.

  Ham.  Methinks it is like a weasel.

  Pol.  It is backed like a weasel.

  Ham.  Or like a whale?

  Pol.  Very like a whale.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

  Ham.  Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?

  Pol.  By the mass, and 't is like a camel, indeed.

  Ham.  Methinks it is like a weasel.

  Pol.  It is backed like a weasel.

  Ham.  Or like a whale?

  Pol.  Very like a whale.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.


EDMUND H. SEARS.  1810-1876.

  It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

New Testament: Matthew xix. 24.

As for a camel

To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Richard II. Act v. Sc. 5.