"Deep water" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of his sarcasm the captain attacked his self-appointed task with the grim determination that had made him respected in every port wherever the big deep water tramp, of which he was the proud master, had dropped her ...
— Cape Cod and All the Pilgrim Land, June 1922, Volume 6, Number 4 • Various
... learned who we were, he said he would report at once to the naval commander; and had no doubt that the company with its effects would have to be landed on an adjacent island, while the schooner was being lightened and hauled off into deep water. ...
— Company 'A', corps of engineers, U.S.A., 1846-'48, in the Mexican war • Gustavus Woodson Smith
... After passing over a small carrying place of 16 rods we rowed 16 miles up the river through still deep water; the land on each side ...
— An interesting journal of Abner Stocking of Chatham, Connecticut • Abner Stocking
... would be simply fool-hardy to try a shot at one of these creatures, I was suddenly convinced that discretion is the better part of valor, and urging my canoe into the center current, made a rapid retreat down the river. For just before me, in the calm deep water of a sheltered bay where I was quietly floating, there arose a violent boiling, bubbling commotion, and for an instant I thought a hot spring was going to burst forth. Instead of that, up rose the hideous head and gaping jaws of a hippopotamus, who, with a ...
— Journeys Through Bookland V3 • Charles H. Sylvester
... seemingly up out of the bare rock and leaned far out over the water. This was the swimming place for the boys and men of the village; and an ideal place it was, for off the rock or out of the overhanging limbs the swimmers could dive without fear into the clear, deep water below. ...
— The Prospector - A Tale of the Crow's Nest Pass • Ralph Connor
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