Quotes About Brig

There is no prettier sight in the world than a full-rigged, clipper-built brig, sailing sharp on the wind.

Ah, brig, good-night To crew and you; The ocean's heart too smooth, too blue, To break for you.

Oh, I am a cook and a captain boldAnd the mate of the Nancy brig,And a bo'sun tight, and a midshipmite,And the crew of the captain's gig.

Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines".

The Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory on Lake Champlain in the capture of one Frigate, one Brig and two sloops of war of the enemy.

Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold And the mate of the Nancy brig, And a bo'sun tight and a midshipmate And the crew of the captain's gig.

Another roll like that, and we shall have no masts,' said Pullings, as the remaining crockery, the glasses and the inhabitants of the gun-room all shot over to the lee. 'We'll lose the mizen first, Doctor,' - picking Stephen tenderly out of the wreckage - 'and so we'll be a brig; then we'll lose the foremast, so we'll be a right little old sloop; then we'll lose the main, and we'll be a raft, which is what we ought to have begun as.

Or take the Sophie,' cried the master, anxious to bring his crumb of comfort. 'She's rightly a brig, you know, Doctor, with her two masts.' He held up two fingers, in case a landman might not fully comprehend so great a number. 'But the minute Captain Aubrey sets foot in her, why, she too becomes a sloop; for a brig is a lieutenant's command.

Little Richard was drenched in milk, and the cow was none too happy. But the iron brig door hung open. Good job, said Slank. Next time, you milk the cow, said Little Richard.

A professor's decks are never clear: there will always be barnacles to scrape, cannons to polish, and scurvy-stricken grad students to free from the brig.