"Bitt" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Gewaehr mir, Bruder, eine Bitt': Wenn ich jetzt sterben werde, So nimm meine Leiche nach Frankreich mit, Begrab mich ...
— A Book Of German Lyrics • Various
... found his coat, laid it on a bitt near by while he should launch his little raft. He balanced it on the rail, inserted a hook under one of his lashings at each end, folded his blankets on top, and, a boat-falls in each hand, paid out carefully, slowly. He ...
— Sonnie-Boy's People • James B. Connolly
... a rustie Beuer peepes. The Horsemen sit like fixed Candlesticks, With Torch-staues in their hand: and their poore Iades Lob downe their heads, dropping the hides and hips: The gumme downe roping from their pale-dead eyes, And in their pale dull mouthes the Iymold Bitt Lyes foule with chaw'd-grasse, still and motionlesse. And their executors, the knauish Crowes, Flye o're them all, impatient for their howre. Description cannot sute it selfe in words, To demonstrate the Life ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... body, one end brought through a ring in the other, and hauled upon until it fitted tight round the "small" or part of the whale next the broad spread of the tail. The free end of the fluke-chain was then passed in through a mooring-pipe forward, firmly secured to a massive bitt at the heel of the bowsprit (the ...
— The Cruise of the Cachalot - Round the World After Sperm Whales • Frank T. Bullen |
