Word: ship
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Free ship" method is practical and immediate. - (a) Free ships would save us $140,000,000 yearly. - (b) Would stimulate our ship yards. - (c) The example of Norway and Germany a wise one to follow. - (d) The carrying trade employs fifty times more men than the shipbuilding industry; Kelley, p. 31. - (e) With "free ships" we should rival England on the sea; Atlantic Mon., vol. 47, p. 174. - (f) Free ships would stimulate American invention, in building and handling ships...
...miller to grind out Peace, Happiness and Prosperity, which they did day and night without intermission. Finally he was killed by another king who took possession of the mill and ordered an unlimited amount of salt to be ground out, which he packed in such large quantities in a ship that it sank, and the salt, dissolving in the sea, gave it its salty character...
...time the work of vengrance goes on. Finally Kari the avenger of Skarphethin, and his enemy Flosi are reconciled. Flosi sails to Norway in a ship not seaworthy, and was never heard of afterward. So closes the Saga...
This is an age of doubt, not of irreligion. Its temple is one of doubt, not of denial; of unbelief, not of disbelief. Man is a ship made to steer, not to drift, and when he finds that he does not know where he is, the voyage of life becomes melancholy...
...verse of the number, the "Ballade of the White Ship" is by far the best. It has the exactness of metrical construction which this form of verse demands. This theme - the loss of the White Ship - is one which poets have often treated, but its author has succeeded in imparting to it some originality of description, - although there are several traces of Swinburne...