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...r neighbors. It’s not up to them to make a difference: you don’t rock the boat when you’re in it… Human life is so fragile, so brief: and they waste ... ...t -- they laugh, they dance, they fuck, they live. Why bother rocking the boat? they say. We're not in it anymore. Inside their own little bubble, i... ...ns are more than willing to “co-exist”. Serve the System, don't rock the boat, and you're fine. This is the lesson that we are trying to demonstrate...

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...s of horrid accidents (the Uruguay rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes, the boat people fleeing Asia), denizens of besieged cities (e.g., d... ..., the shipping company that owned the now-sinking Unsinkable, joins a lowered life-boat. The tortured expression on his face demonstrates that even... ...o the lifeboats. Another was the discrimination against Third Class passengers. The boats sufficed only to half the number of those on board and the... ...ent to amortize the costs of "class insurance": should anything bad happen to this boat, persons who paid a superior price will be entitled to rece... ...hilosophical difference between an expensive liver transplant and a place in a life boat. Both are lifesavers. A natural disaster is no Great Equal...

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...d make all ready for sea. Then send Jack to wait for me at the slip with a boat; and give me a gunfire for n signal. Lose no time. JOHNSON. Ay, ay, ai...

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... canal. Scylla and Charybdis face each other in the Strait of Messina. The boats and ships that want to pass through the strait have a very hard tim...

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...n you tell us at such crucial times? For an infinitude, the oars paced, a boat swung, another boat anchoring alongside, the armor on deck flashing, ... ...ur fleet, how he would have the ships repaired and converted into fishing boats for the use of the community...never mentioning that our fleet was r... ...th and sat beside me at the temple of Apollo, watching the people and the boats and the sea birds, and hearing the choral virgins sing. Evenings, h... ...here were no birthdays. P For several days, Kleis and I have sailed, our boat a good fishing boat, cap- tained by a young man named Phaon. It was o... ...wind blowing, the water choppy under grey skies. He left off caulking his boat with a cheery “Hello” and climbed onto the pier. How pleased he was t... ...p of a thing who satisfies him. In my dream I saw him at the prow of his boat, talking with Kleis. I should send her to Andros. I need to go to An... ...ction everywhere? Corinth, Sparta, Argos, Sicyon...the news reaches us by boat. Why is Phaon far at sea, headed for Byzantium? It seems to be a wor... ... The cricket can’t read or write or think scientifically. He can’t sail a boat or build a house. He potters away in his clod or field. What can a cr... ...age. Necessity can be ingenious. The fishermen have managed to build good boats out of the battered wrecks that littered our VOICES FROM THE PAST ...

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...even more surprisingly, they decide to take him to Ithaca on their fastest boat, disobeying Poseidon’s prohibition, knowing very well that he – thei... ...ntinuously explode. Not only does the artist in the movie not get off the boat, he won’t let his music get off either. He makes only one record, an... ... years go by and the monk gets older and older, until one day he takes his boat out to the middle of the lake and there ends his earthly existence. ... ...d in books that teach about Buddhism. While his body is burning and the boat sinks, a snake quickly leaves the boat and swims towards the monk’s ... ...is true that envy makes us blind, it is also true that whoever sees that a boat is drifting off course would most certainly either run to awake Ulyss...

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... .................................................................................................. 32 CANTO VIII. The Fifth Circle.?Phlegyas and his boat.?Passage of the Styx.?Filippo Argenti.?The City of Dis.? The demons refuse entrance to the poets. ....................................................................................................... 35 CANTO IX. The C...

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...ir ircle.—P cle.—P cle.—P cle.—P cle.—Phleg hleg hleg hleg hlegyas and his boat.—P yas and his boat.—P yas and his boat.—P yas and his boat.—P yas and... ...—P yas and his boat.—P yas and his boat.—P yas and his boat.—P yas and his boat.—Passage of the S assage of the S assage of the S assage of the S assa... ...r as to the river I refrained from speaking. And lo! coming toward us in a boat, an old man, white with ancient hair, crying, “Woe to you, wicked soul... ...ew back all of them 1 Who is intended by these words is uncertain. 2 The boat that bears the souls to Purgatory. Charon recog- nizes that Dante is n... ...O O O O O VIII. VIII. VIII. VIII. VIII. The Fifth Circle.—Phlegyas and his boat.— Passage of the Styx.—Filippo Argenti.—The City of Dis.—The demons re... ...w from itself that ran so swift a course through the air, as a very little boat which I saw com- ing through the water toward us at that instant, unde... ... only when I was in did it seem laden. Soon as my Leader and I were in the boat, the antique prow goes its way, cutting more of the water than it is w... ...n, for I know thee although thou art all filthy.” Then he stretched to the boat both his hands, whereat the wary Master thrust him back, saying, “Bego... ...and Dante have crossed the sand. 62 The Divine Comedy – Hell As sometimes boats lie on the shore, so that they are partly in water and partly on the ...

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............................................................................................... 6 CANTO II. Sunrise.?The Poets on the shore.?Coming of a boat, guided by an angel, bearing souls to Purgatory.? Their landing.?Casella and his song.?Cato hurries the souls to the mountain. ................................. 10 CANTO III. Ante-Purgatory.?Souls of those who have died ...

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.................... 6 CANTO II. Sunrise.—The Poets on the shore.—Coming of a boat, guided by an angel, bearing souls to Purga- tory.—Their landing.—Case... ...O II. O II. O II. O II. O II. Sunrise.—The Poets on the shore.—Coming of a boat, guided by an angel, bearing souls to Purgatory.—Their landing.—Casell...

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...soldier.) Comrade: give the word to turn out on the beach and stand by the boats. Get your wound attended to. Go. (The soldier hurries out. Caesar com... ...he west harbor. Burn them. RUFIO (staring). Burn them!! CAESAR. Take every boat we have in the east harbor, and seize the Pharos—that island with the ... ... The moment your foot is aboard there will be no holding our men back: the boats will race one another for the lighthouse. CAESAR (drawing his sword a... ...! CLEOPATRA (eagerly). Ftatateeta: I have thought of some- thing. I want a boat—at once. FTATATEETA. A boat! No, no: you cannot. Apollodorus: speak to... ...rld to choose from. CLEOPATRA. I have no time for carpets to-day. Get me a boat. FTATATEETA. What whim is this? You cannot go on the water except in t... ... Cleopatra) The touch of your majesty’s foot on the gunwale of the meanest boat in the harbor will make it royal. (He turns to the harbor and calls se... ...r will make it royal. (He turns to the harbor and calls seaward) Ho there, boatman! Pull in to the steps. CLEOPATRA. Apollodorus: you are my perfect k... ...gh you. (Apollodorus bows joyously. An oar appears above the quay; and the boatman, a bullet-headed, vivacious, grinning fellow, burnt almost black by... ...fuge near the palace, where the porters are squatting among the bales. The boatman, alarmed, hurries down the steps out of harm’s way, but stops, with...

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...her tonnage, but she would hold ten persons without much crowding. In this boat we were in the habit of going on some of the maddest freaks in the wor... ...g, and was determined to get up and dress, and go out on a frolic with the boat. I can hardly tell what pos- sessed me, but the words were no sooner o... ...tucket. We lost no time in getting on our clothes and hurrying down to the boat. She was lying at the old decayed wharf by the lumber-yard of Pankey &... ... seriously alarmed. At this period I knew little about the management of a boat, and was now depending entirely upon the nautical skill of my friend. ... ... the tiller at the same moment, and falling forward into the bottom of the boat— “matter—why, nothing is the—matter— going home—d—d—don’t you see?” Th... ...d and irresolute. I knew that I was altogether inca- pable of managing the boat, and that a fierce wind and strong ebb tide were hurrying us to destru... ...me moments paralyzed me beyond the possibility of making any exertion. The boat was going through the water at a terrible rate—full before the wind—no... ...ce of ulti- mate escape. Augustus still lay senseless in the bottom of the boat; and as there was imminent danger of his drowning (the water being nea... ...ousand demons, seemed to pervade the whole atmosphere around and above the boat. Never while I live shall I forget the intense agony of terror I exper...

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...e again more healthily than ever. So with a vigorous shove we launched our boat from the bank, while the flags and bulrushes courtesied a God speed, a... ...ulrushes courtesied a God speed, and dropped silently down the stream. Our boat, which had cost us a week’s labor in the spring, was in form like a fi... ...lt, but heavy, and hardly of bet ter model than usual. If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, rela... ... trim the sails, and what form to give to the prow that it may balance the boat, 13 HenryDavidThoreau and divide the air and water best. These hints ... ...od, and yet the wood alone will rudely serve the purpose of a ship, so our boat, being of wood, gladly availed itself of the old law that the heavier ... ...place of safety. The tortoises also rapidly dropped into the water, as our boat ruffled the surface amid the willows, breaking the reflections of the ... ...th, when we had made about seven miles, as far as Billerica, we moored our boat on the west side of a little rising ground which in the spring forms a... ...ur tent, and once a musquash fumbling among the potatoes and melons in our boat, but when we hastened to the shore we could detect only a ripple in th... ... whether things or persons. On this same stream a maiden once sailed in my boat, thus unattended but by invisible guardians, and as she sat in the pro...

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... valuables. Then Onund went into the forest, while the two brothers took the boat of their foster father Ingjald, rowed away and lay in hiding a littl... ...andafloi, almost to Sudrstrandir. There came rowing towards them a ten oared boat with six men on board, who hailed the sea going ship and asked who ... ...oast of the bay and anchored off a creek near Arnes, where they put off in a boat to the shore. Here dwelt a wealthy man named Eirik Snare, who had ta... ...Thorfinn, and sent him to fetch Thorgeir’s head. This man hid himself in the boatshed. One morning when Thorgeir was preparing to row out with two oth... ...in on his back containing some drink. It was very dark, and as he passed the boat house Thorfinn sprang out upon him and dealt him a blow with an axe ... ... of the whale having been stranded and at once rowed across the fjord in his boat to Byrgisvik, whence he sent a messenger to Kaldbak. When Thorgrim a... ...y to go with all speed to the spot. There were twelve of them in a ten oared boat, and six others, with Ivar and Leif, sons of Kolbeinn. All the farme... ...ter they hoisted their sail. Grettir made himself a corner under the ship’s boat, whence he refused to stir either to bale or to trim the sails or to... ...ted it, they struck a rock and the lower part of the ship began to fill. The boats were got out and the women put into them with all the loose propert...

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...the Socialists.” As far as estab- lished Jewry was concerned, he burnt his boats by this ac- tion, and cut himself off from the routine of wealth, res... ...peating what the books say. He describes the miracle of Jesus reaching the boat by walking across the sea, but says nothing about Peter trying to do t... ... reader. He says, for instance, that when Jesus walked on the waves to the boat, he was passing it by when the disciples called out to him. He seems t... ... stories. He cannot allow the calling of Peter, James, and John from their boats to pass without a comic miraculous overdraft of fishes, with the net ... ...s without a comic miraculous overdraft of fishes, with the net sinking the boats and provoking Peter to exclaim, “Depart from me; for I am a sinful ma... ...d, “I want no more of your miracles: natural fishing is good enough for my boats.” There are some other novelties in Luke’s version. Pilate sends Jesu... ...nd a dozen Peters. One feels at last that when Jesus called Peter from his boat, he spoiled an honest fisherman, and made nothing better out of the wr...

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... a scythe and three spades, all apparently new, lying in the bottom of the boat in which we were to embark. 82 Poe in Five V olumes “What is the mean... ... whole intellect seemed to be absorbed by “de bug,” I now stepped into the boat and made sail. With a fair and strong breeze we soon ran into the litt... ...erved the remnants of the hull of what appeared to have been a ship’s long boat. The wreck seemed to have been there for a very great while; for the r... ...k seemed to have been there for a very great while; for the resemblance to boat timbers could scarcely be traced. “Well, Jupiter picked up the par... ...d of connexion. I had put together two links of a great chain. There was a boat lying upon a sea-coast, and not far from the boat was a parchment—not ... ...the drawing of the beetle. How then do you trace any connexion between the boat and the skull—since this latter, according to your own admission, must... ...e usual Sunday resort of blackguards from the city, who cross the river in boats. About three o’clock, in the afternoon of the *Philadelphia “Saturday... ...engaged, about dusk, the services of six young men, who were idly rowing a boat to and fro near the banks of the Seine, to convey him across the river... ...of the *New Y ork “Express” **NewY ork “Herald.” 176 Poe in Five V olumes boat, when the daughter discovered that she had left in it her parasol. She...

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...fs nor hills. The Cossacks, alighting from their horses, entered the ferry-boat, and after a three hours’ sail reached the shores of the island of Kho... ...often changed its situation. A throng of people hastened to the shore with boats. The Cossacks arranged the horses’ trappings. Taras assumed a stately... ...cording to my poor opinion, we might, I think, send out a few young men in boats and let them plunder the coasts of Anatolia a little. What do you thi... ...ind, and bite painfully too. And if I must tell you the truth, we have not boats enough, nor powder ready in sufficient quantity, for all to go. But I... ...ortion of the arms captured from the enemy. Others hastened to inspect the boats and prepare them for service. In a twinkling the whole shore was thro... ...olled up their trousers, waded up to their knees in water, and dragged the boats on to the shore with stout ropes; others brought seasoned timber and ... ...ith stout ropes; others brought seasoned timber and all sorts of wood. The boats were freshly planked, turned bottom upwards, caulked and tarred, and ... ...the shore they built fires and heated tar in copper cauldrons to smear the boats. The old and the experienced instructed the young. The blows and shou... ...ighbourhood; the bank shook and moved about. About this time a large ferry-boat began to near the shore. The mass of people standing in it began to wa...

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...ance, like the front of a high-class theatre, that towered above the ferry boats. Y ou could often hear the thump of the screw and the swish of the bo... ...ister-in- law an’ Mabe … Mabe’s my girl … they all came over on the ferry-boat, ‘spite of my tellin’ ‘em I didn’t want ‘em. An’ Mabe said she was mad... ...“Ah’ll push that guy Anderson into the sea, if we both go over on the same boat,” said Chrisfield laughing; but he added after a pause: “It would have... ...said Grey as he rolled himself in his blankets. “If one of those bastard U-boats … ” “I don’t give a damn,” said Fuselli boisterously; but as he lay s... ...ited in a packed line, thrown one against the other by the lurching of the boat, to get into the dispensary. The roar of the wind came to them faintly... ... for some guys that’s too sick to move.” “An awful lot o’ sickness on this boat.” “Two fellers died this mornin’ in that there room,” said another man... ... the bottom of them; crossed a jade-green river where a long file of canal boats with bright paint on their prows moved slowly. The engine whistled sh... ...ey talked and laughed, but he looked beyond their khaki uniforms and their boat-shaped caps unconsciously. He was taken up with the smell of the coffe... ... hors d’oeuvre while we are waiting.” The waitress brought a collection of boat-shaped plates of red salads and yellow salads and green salads and two...

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...o hotly pursued by a swarm of the men-vermin (who had come to the shore in boats) that I was very soon overtaken, bound hand and foot, and conveyed to... ...heightened by a storm, it is dangerous to come within a Norway mile of it. Boats, yachts, and ships have been carried away by not guarding against it ... ...I began to feel a little un- easy, without exactly knowing why. We put the boat on the wind, but could make no headway at all for the eddies, and I wa... ...with it my youngest brother, who had lashed himself to it for safety. “Our boat was the lightest feather of a thing that ever sat upon water. It had a... ...ing hold with my hands, and thus got my head clear. Pres- ently our little boat gave herself a shake, just as a dog does in coming out of the water, a... ...he time of the slack, and the whirl of the Ström was in full fury! “When a boat is well built, properly trimmed, and not deep laden, the waves in a st... ... until we suddenly felt the waves subside, and were enveloped in foam. The boat made a sharp half turn to larboard, and then shot off in its new direc... ...tly on account of the amazing velocity with which we wore borne along. The boat did not seem to sink into the water at all, but to skim like an 49 V ... ...such extremity—and I have often thought since, that the revolutions of the boat around the pool might have rendered me a little light-headed. “There w...

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...ys after his shop was shut, sent him for a walk on the quay to look at the boats, and then brought him back to college at seven o’clock before supper.... ...n his office. Heloise, it is true, still pos- sessed, besides a share in a boat valued at six thousand francs, her house in the Rue St. Francois; and ... ...s; what she had placed with the notary God only knew, and her share in the boat did not exceed one thousand crowns. She had lied, the good lady! In hi... ... the upper platform a green field with rocks set in lakes of jam, nutshell boats, and a small Cupid balancing himself in a chocolate swing whose two u... ... had had, for a prefectorial order having prohibited duckhunting except in boats, Monsieur Binet, despite his respect for the laws, was infringing the... ...g square went up the walls and that the floor dipped on end like a tossing boat. She was right at the edge, almost hanging, surrounded by vast space. ... ... having heard him sing one night on the beach at Biarritz, where he mended boats, had fallen in love with him. She had ruined herself for him. He had ... ...down on a chair, and his eyes fell upon a blue stained window representing boatmen carry- ing baskets. He looked at it long, attentively , and he coun... ...re brought them early in the morning. T owards evening they took a covered boat and went to dine on one of the islands. It was the time when one hears...

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...n a light railway here. There seems to be no ques- tion now that the motor boat has come to stay. Well, look at your magnificent river there, going to... ...yle, be the roar of thy waters.” BROADBENT . You know, the roar of a motor boat is quite pretty. KEEGAN. Provided it does not drown the Angelus. BROAD... ... small landowner? How will Barney Doran’s mill- race agree with your motor boats? Will Doolan help you to get a license for your hotel? BROADBENT . My...

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...nsate its good. Hudson and Behring accomplished so much in their fish- ing-boats as to astonish Parry and Franklin, whose equip- ment exhausted the re... ... phenomena than any one since. Columbus found the New World in an undecked boat. It is curious to see the periodical disuse and perishing of means and... ...harpoon hurled at the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat, and, if the harpoon is not 61 Emerson good, or not well thrown, it w... ...ell thrown, it will go nigh to cut the steers- man in twain or to sink the boat. You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. “No man had ever a point... ...e can never see Christianity from the catechism:—from the pastures, from a boat in the pond, from amidst the songs of wood-birds we possibly may. Clea... ...he punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature. The boat at St. Peters- burg, which plies along the Lena by magnetism, needs li... ...r stumps and their politics, our fisher- ies, our Negroes and Indians, our boats and our repudia- tions, the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of ... ...benefits is a difficult channel, which re- quires careful sailing, or rude boats. It is not the office of a man to receive gifts. How dare you give th... ... hundred acres of the farm must be spaded, and the man must walk, wherever boats and locomotives will not carry him. Even the insect world was to be d...