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Quotes About Berths

The double row of berths yawned black, like graves tenanted by uneasy corpses.
~ Joseph Conrad
Over the white rims of berths stuck out heads with blinking eyes; but the bodies were lost in the gloom of those places, that resembled narrow niches for coffins in a whitewashed and lighted mortuary.
~ Joseph Conrad
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
~ E. Franklin Frazier
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. Among sea-commanders, the old greybeards will oftenest leave their berths to visit the night-cloaked deck.
~ Herman Melville
but he kept berths for at least two others: Álvaro de Mesquita, a relative on his mother's side
~ Laurence Bergreen
The climax came on May 1, when Liverpool and the Mersey were attacked for seven successive nights. Seventy-six thousand people were made homeless and three thousand killed or injured. Sixty-nine out of a hundred and forty-four berths were put out of action, and the tonnage landed for a while was cut to a quarter.
~ Winston S. Churchill