Quotes Tagged With :nautical

The cork was in the bottle. He and the Atropos were trapped.

I phoned the Admiral back.'It's no use, Admiral, the French speak nothing but French.'There was a short....

I should say we’d reach England by Tuesday or thereabouts, with a decent wind behind us. It would be....

The Bane...where coxswain's dirtand seaman's shirtsbrushed bawdily upon her chest...

SS Seawise GiantSeawise GiantOrdered in 1974 and delivered in 1979, the longest ship ever built was the....

Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his oars....

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.....

Through all his years of roving, even on nights like this, he had remained blind to the beauty of the....

Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am not....

I have a hunch the world is darker than I could ever imagine and there is less reason for hope than I....