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"Ship" Quotes from Famous Books

... time to argue with you," returned the other, as he held up an enamelled ship of beautiful workmanship. "Dear me, this is really very fine. I have never seen anything like it before! ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101. October 10, 1891 • Various

... to in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle though the year is wrongly given as 1135 instead of 1133 as it certainly was. The Chronicle says:—"In this year King Henry went over sea at Lammas, and the second day as he lay and slept on the ship the day darkened over all lands; and the Sun became as it were a three-night-old Moon, and the stars about it at mid-day. Men were greatly wonder-stricken and affrighted, and said that a great thing should come hereafter. So it did, for the same year the king died ...

— The Story of Eclipses • George Chambers

... knowledge, the story itself—as well as the attempt to describe the physical and social conditions on Mars—is purely imaginative. It is not, however, merely random imagining. In a narrative such as this some matters—as, for instance, the "air-ship," and the possibility of a voyage through space—must be taken for granted; but the other ideas are mainly logical deductions from known facts and scientific data, ...

— To Mars via The Moon - An Astronomical Story • Mark Wicks

... States Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration provide for the transition of shipping operation from a war to a peace basis; the sale, chartering, or lay-up of much of the war-built fleet; and for a program of ship construction of some 84 million dollars in the fiscal year 1947 to round out the merchant ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... evening. There remained the last morning to come; and after that—what? The great sea of an unknown life, a new pilot, and a ship untried. ...

— The Marriage of Elinor • Margaret Oliphant

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