Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am not a dog!' he shouted agrily, his gold earrings flashing in the firelight.
Tim PowersTags: youth ocean pirates nautical pirate ship captain seas
She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.
Susan WiggsTags: travel sea ocean sailing ship cruise
Maxim 10:
Sometimes the only way out is through... through the hull.
-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
Tags: violence perseverance sci-fi ship rules-to-live-by subverted-saying
American whale oil lit the world. It was used in the production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, and varnishes, and it lubricated the tools and machines that drove the Industrial Revolution. The baleen cut from the mouths of whales shaped the course of feminine fashion by putting the hoop in hooped skirts and giving form to stomachtightening
and chest-crushing corsets. Spermaceti, the waxy substance from the heads of sperm whales, produced the brightest- and cleanest-burning candles the world has ever known, while ambergris, a byproduct of irritation in a sperm whale’s bowel, gave perfumes great staying power and was worth its weight in gold.
Tags: history ocean moby-dick whales ship american-history whaling harpoon
But alas! Firemen [stoking a ship] are not what they were. The gor-blimey firemen of the coal-burning days must, I think, be a diminishing species and in these degenerate times, when ships burn oil, the firemen is rapidly becoming a perfect gentleman, which is a pity …. Yet all was not quite lost in 1932, since one of them, … finding an altercation with the cook becoming beyond his powers of argument, upheld tradition and ‘drew him off a Burton.’ In other words, he knocked him out for the count.
F.D. OmmanneyTags: ship whaling fireman 1932 antarctic polar-research
Bakakalırım giden geminin ardından;
Atamam kendimi denize, dünya güzel;
Serde erkeklik var, ağlayamam.
In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
Joseph ConradTags: adventure water travel ship
She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used 'stow' instead of 'tidy' for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her.
Philip PullmanTags: water sea sail pirates sailing ship boat seafaring
the captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat
Neal ShustermanTags: lev ship captain conner sink unwholly first-mate lifeboat
You are the captain of your ship that never comes in
Daniel Lee EdstromTags: ship captain port daniel-lee-edstrom
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