“The ship’s orchestra of eight young men were standing knee deep in water playing.”
Steve Turner (1949) British writer
Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 140
“445. A great ship askes deepe waters.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(12th January 1833) The Lost Ship
The London Literary Gazette, 1833-1835
“As a little skiff attached to a great ship, when the storm blows high, takes in her small share of the raging waters and tosses in the same south wind.”
Immensae veluti conexa carinae
cumba minor, cum saevit hiems, pro parte furentis
parva receptat aquas et eodem volvitur austro.
iv, line 120
Silvae, Book I
“Dive where the water is deep.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 49
“The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS”
Mary Downing Hahn book Deep and Dark and Dangerous
Source: Deep and Dark and Dangerous
“They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Deep water is what I am wont to swim in.”
Joseph Smith, Jr. book Doctrine and Covenants
Doctrine and Covenants, 127:2 (1 September 1842)
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