"Sunk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... having sunk into a moody silence, with his hands clasped behind him, and his eyes suspiciously wandering about Wegg.—'No! stop there. I know the way out, ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens
... of wood was fastened to the upright portion of the cross, toward the middle, and passed between the legs of the condemned, who rested upon it.[8] Without that, the hands would have been torn and the body would have sunk down. At other times, a small horizontal rest was fixed beneath ...
— The Life of Jesus • Ernest Renan
... which was big enough to have sunk us if we had had eight pumps instead of four, and had been able to keep them incessantly going, was in great measure plugged up by a fragment of the rock, which, after having made the wound, was left sticking in it; so that the water which had at first gained upon our pumps was ...
— The Naval Pioneers of Australia • Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery
... was as a child disappears completely. The whole passage thus takes on a meaning corresponding to that passive attitude to the divine will inculcated by Augustine and opposed by Pelagius, and it is in this sense that the words of Christ have sunk into the consciousness of Western Christianity ...
— Man or Matter • Ernst Lehrs
... gave us to take; I filled the lamp with oil, and placed in it a thick cotton-wick, which, when lighted, was very brilliant. Jack and I then placed it on the shore, at the entrance of the bay. We fixed it before the rock, where the land-wind would not reach it, sunk it three or four feet into the ground, steadied it with stones, and then went to rest over our fire, after this long and difficult labour. After drying ourselves a little, we set out on our return, when, looking towards the sea, we were startled by the appearance of the same light we ...
— The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island • Johann David Wyss
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