Famous quotes containing the word deck:
“And every sea-god pays a gem,
Yearly out of his watery cell,
To deck great Neptunes diadem.”
—Thomas Campion (15671620)
“I sang as one
Who on a tilting deck sings
To keep mens courage up, though the wake hangs
That shall cut off their sun.”
—Cecil Day Lewis (19041972)
“Positively I sit here, and look at Europe sink, first one deck disappearing, then another, and the whole ship slowly plunging bow-down into the abyss; until the nightmare gets to be howling. The Roman Empire was a trifle to it.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)
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