Famous quotes containing the word sank:
“My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.”
—Eudora Welty (b. 1909)
“The Sea Tiger was built to fight. She deserves a better epitaph than Commissioned 1940. Sank 1941. Engagements, none. Shots fired, none. Now you cant let her go that way. Thats like a beautiful woman dying an old maid.”
—Stanley Shapiro (19251990)
“We took one look round,
Then sank out of sight like trolls underground....”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
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