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Letter "K" » keel
«Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves to have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel ploughs air»
«Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. [On filming MacHale's Navy]»
«[It is] a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.»
«It is as if there were a natural law which ordained that to achieve this end, to refine the curve of a piece of furniture, or a ship's keel, or the fuselage of an airplane, until gradually it partakes of the elemental purity of the curve of the human»
«Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| About:
Running
| Keywords:
frame, frame of mind, keel, keel over, stay on
«There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
ballast, crankiness, keel, keel over
«It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.»
«If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over»
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