"Capsize" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... capsize you. I feel so happy. I want to dream. This is so delightful." Then, in a slightly malicious tone, ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant
... absolutely unable to decide whether she had sent for him in the natural alarm which might have followed her mishap, or with the single view of making herself known to him as she had done, for which the capsize had afforded excellent opportunity. Outside the house he mused over the spot under the light of the stars. It seemed very strange that he should have come there more than once when its inhabitant was absent, ...
— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy
... started down the bay of San Francisco. The pilot left her about five miles outside the Golden Gate. Looking back from his pilot-boat a short time after, he saw the vessel stop, drift into the trough of the sea, careen to port, both bulwarks going under water, then suddenly capsize and sink. What was the cause of this ...
— Stories Worth Rereading • Various
... the Captain, somewhat sternly, "you will capsize us if you do not sit quite still. Our gunwale is almost ...
— At Whispering Pine Lodge • Lawrence J. Leslie
... gave the order "Full speed ahead"; it is very fortunate that he did so, as otherwise the Foscolia would have hit her amidships; and the damage must then have been very serious, as the water compartments in that part of the vessel are large, and when filled might have caused her to capsize. The damage proves to be much less severe than was at first thought; after two or three weeks it is thought she ...
— The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 23, June 9, 1898 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls • Various
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