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Quotes About Ship

gemideki herkes son derece iyi insanlard?. K?sa yaÅŸayan, neÅŸeli ölen türden.
~ Herman Melville
In a severe gale like this, while the ship is but a tossed shuttlecock to the blast, it is by no means uncommon to see the needles in the compasses, at intervals, go round and round. It was thus with the Pequod's; at almost every shock the helmsman had not failed to notice the whirling velocity with which they revolved upon the cards; it is a sight that hardly anyone can behold without some sort of unwonted emotion.
~ Herman Melville
This terrible event clothed the archangel with added influence; because his credulous disciples believed that he had specifically fore- announced it, instead of only making a general prophecy, which any one might have done, and so have chanced to hit one of many marks in the wide margin allowed. He became a nameless terror to the ship.
~ Herman Melville
5TH NANTUCKET SAILOR What's that I saw—lightning? Yes. SPANISH SAILOR No; Daggoo showing his teeth.
~ Herman Melville
El mundo es un barco que pasa temporalmente, sin realizar un viaje completo.
~ Herman Melville
CHAPTER 64 Stubb's Supper
~ Herman Melville
I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
~ Herman Melville
Vratká Pequod se podobala studentovi, který v hlavÄ› sice nosí celého Aristotela, ale v bÃ…â"¢iÅ¡e nemá nic až na kru?ení od hladu, a tak bylo Å¡tÄ›stí, že za takového stavu nemusela vzdorovat nÄ›jakému tajfunu.
~ Herman Melville
Herman Melville
~ under weigh
It was not till the boats returned from the pursuit of these whales, that the whites saw their ship in bloody possession of the savages enrolled among the crew.   ââ'¬â€NEWSPAPER ACCOUNT OF THE TAKING AND RETAKING OF THE WHALE-SHIP HOBOMACK.
~ Herman Melville
She was a ship of the old school, rather small if anything; with an old-fashioned
~ Herman Melville
the ship was rushing through the water with a vindictive sort of leaping and melancholy rapidity
~ Herman Melville
Evet, dünya sefer halinde, henüz yolculuÄŸunu tamamlamam?? bir gemidir ve kürsü de onun provas?d?r.
~ Herman Melville
upon the tarnished head-boards, nearby, appeared, in stately capitals, once gilt, the ship's name, SAN DOMINICK, each letter streakingly corroded with tricklings of copper-spike rust; while, like mourning weeds, dark festoons of sea-grass slimily swept to and fro over the name, with every hearse-like roll of the hull.
~ Herman Melville
As his former ship moves off, Budd shouts, Good-bye to you too, old Rights-of-Man.
~ Herman Melville
Willie experienced the strange sensations of the first days of a new captain: a shrinking of his personal identiy, and a stretching out of his nerve ends to all the spaces and machinery of the ship. He was less free than before. He developed the apprehensive listening ears of a young mother; the ears listened on in his sleep; he never quite slept, not the way he had before.
~ Herman Wouk
Now they made all secure in the fast black ship, and, setting out the wine bowls all a-brim, they made libation to the gods, the undying, the ever-new, most of all to the grey-eyed daughter of Zeus. And the prow sheared through the night into the dawn. (Translation by Robert Fitzgerald 1961)
~ Homer
As the sail bellied out with the wind, the ship flew through the deep blue water, and the foam hissed against her bows as she sped onward.
~ Homer
He called at once to his companion Patroclus, shouting for him from the ship. Hearing the call in his hut, Patroclus equal of Ares came out; and that was the beginning of his end.
~ Homer
and poured libations out to the everlasting gods who never die — to Athena first of all, the daughter of Zeus with flashing sea-grey eyes — and the ship went plunging all night long and through the dawn (R. Fagles translation)
~ Homer
he was standing on the stern of his huge-hollowed vessel 600  looking out over the sheer war work and the sorrowful onrush.
~ Homer
All running gear secure in the swift black craft, they set up bowls and brimmed them high with wine and poured libations out to the everlasting gods who never die—to Athena first of all, the daughter of Zeus with flashing sea-gray eyes— and the ship went plunging all night long and through the dawn.
~ Homer
The German steamer Frankfurt had been the first to respond to the CQD call, but she was more than 170 miles, and many hours, away. The Cunard liner Carpathia was roughly 58 miles from the Titanic and had sent a message saying they were coming as quickly as possible and expected to be there within four hours.
~ Hugh Brewster
Just before the Clear Air Turbulence went back into warp and its crew sat down at the table, the ship expelled the limp corpse of Zallin. Where it had found a live man in a suit, it left a dead youth in shorts and a tattered shirt, tumbling and freezing while a thin shell of air molecules expanded around the body, like an image of departing life.
~ Iain M. Banks