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Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the depth of our Lord and His br...

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Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be ...

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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Says O'Sullivan to me, "Mr. Fay, I'll have a word wid yeh?" "Certainly," says I; "what can I do for ...

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Jack LondonThe Mutiny of the Elsinore

A ship's captain was her master and the right hand of God in Heaven Himself, and concerned with matt...

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Jim ButcherThe Aeronaut's Windlass

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...

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I must go down to the sea...to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship, and a star ...

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In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a cont...

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He imagined that he was looking for her and couldn't find her anywhere, that the two of them were lo...

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José SaramagoThe Tale of the Unknown Island

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job li...

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It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast r...

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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has pa...

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'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am n...

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Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his ...

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A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as ...

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Avi (author)The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

What's aero braking? That's a way to use the gravity and upper atmosphere of Earth to sling shot a s...

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Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings...

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There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are...

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Magnus's ship would sail that night...His interest in the ship and his thoughts of an adventure to c...

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