“The ship’s orchestra of eight young men were standing knee deep in water playing.”
Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 140
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“The ship’s orchestra of eight young men were standing knee deep in water playing.”
Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 140
(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.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 49
“They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”