"Broad-side" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... strips and canopied with silk net, yards of which one could crush in his hand, so nearly immaterial was this mosquito fabric; sumptuous steamer-chairs; a leather reading-couch that could be moved to the best breeze or light with a touch of the finger; a broad-side of books and a vast writing-table, openly dimensioned to defy litter—the whole effect was that of coolness and silence and room. Everything a man needed seemed to be there and breathing spaciously.... Turning through a draped ...
— Fate Knocks at the Door - A Novel • Will Levington Comfort
... could not move. His feet pawed convulsively once or twice. It was no use. He was done. "Eight—nine—ten!" said the time-keeper, and the roar of a thousand voices, with a deafening clap like the broad-side of a ship, told that the Master of Croxley was the Master ...
— The Green Flag • Arthur Conan Doyle |
