Famous quotes containing the words vessel and/or wall:
“Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
That frequently happens in tropical climes
When a vessel is, so to speak, snarked.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“Cooling, so cooling,
with a wall against my feet,
midday sleepbehold.”
—Matsuo Basho (16441694)