Rear Deck Lid

Famous quotes containing the words rear, deck and/or lid:

“It is not easy to free
myth from reality
or rear this fellow up
to lutch, lurch with them
in the tranced dancing of men.”
—Earle Birney (b. 1904)

“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 (1838–1918)

“... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)