"Rock of gibraltar" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in form like a reclining lion, guards the entrance to the narrow water passage which separates Europe from Africa. This wonderful feature, the Rock of Gibraltar, extends directly southward from the mainland of Spain with which it is connected by a low, sandy isthmus. It is about three miles in length and in breadth varies from one-fourth to three-fourths of a mile. Two depressions divide it into three summits, the highest ...
— Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania • Jewett Castello Gilson
... plenty of provisions and water, and had no doubt but that I should be seen by some vessel before they were expended. Three weeks had elapsed, when one morning I went on deck, and saw land on both sides of me. I immediately recognised the Rock of Gibraltar, and the Straits, through which I was drifting. I was boarded by a Spanish gun-boat from Algesiras, and having stated that all my crew had died two months before of the yellow fever, I was towed in, put into quarantine for forty days, and then permitted to equip my vessel and procure sailors. ...
— The Pacha of Many Tales • Captain Frederick Marryat
... know not—nor do any of my men; but, however, as it was very narrow when we came into the Mediterranean through the straits, it is hardly possible to get out of them without perceiving it; besides, I should know the rock of Gibraltar again if I saw it. ...
— Mr. Midshipman Easy • Frederick Marryat
... of the Rock of Gibraltar, with its mighty armament of heavy guns, he could not have assumed an air ...
— Wrecked but not Ruined • R.M. Ballantyne
... jollying; his sturdy nature is guaranteed proof against the battering assaults of unholy mirth from other scouts; his round face and curly hair are the delight of the girls of Bridgeboro; his loyalty is as the mighty rock of Gibraltar. A bully little scout he ...
— Pee-wee Harris • Percy Keese Fitzhugh |
