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"Brine" Quotes from Famous Books

... adventure of all. Down beside the railway was a small platform on which supplies for the lumber-camps were sometimes unloaded from the trains. Brine and molasses and various other delectable things had leaked out of the barrels and kegs and boxes, and the Porcupine discovered that the planks were very nicely seasoned and flavored. He visited them once too ...

— Forest Neighbors - Life Stories of Wild Animals • William Davenport Hulbert

... no one to blush with me, To cross their arms and hang their heads with mine, To mask their brows and hide their infamy; But I alone alone must sit and pine, Seasoning the earth with showers of silver brine, Mingling my talk with tears, my grief with groans, Poor wasting monuments of ...

— The Rape of Lucrece • William Shakespeare [Clark edition]

... untroubled sleeps he now beneath the salt sea brine, And I rejoice to think how soon that sweet sleep shall be mine!" No answer made the father but a low and grief-struck moan; And silence reigned again throughout that chamber sad ...

— The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon (Mrs. R.E. Mullins) • Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

... of rest Comes like a calm upon the mid-sea brine, Hushing its billowy breast— The quiet of that moment too is Thine It breathes of Him who keeps The vast and ...

— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various

... of San Francisco, gathered on her hills, never saw. Mysterious, invisible, it cleaved the air and smote the mightiest blows of combat the world had ever witnessed. The good people of San Francisco saw little and understood less. They saw only a million and a half tons of brine-cleaving, thunder-flinging fabrics hurled skyward and smashed back in ruin to sink into the sea. It was all over in five minutes. Remained upon the wide expanse of sea only the Energon, rolling white and toylike ...

— Revolution and Other Essays • Jack London

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