Timbers Quotes
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He will be weighed again At the Great Day, His rigging refitted, And his timbers repaired, And with one broadside Make his adversary Strike in his turn.
tobias smollett— Tobias Smollett, Peregrine Pickle, Volume III, Chapter VII. Epitaph on Commodore Trunnion; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 234.
The Abbey always reminds me of that old toast, 'Above lofty timbers, the walls around are bare, echoing to our laughter, as though the dead were there.'
garrett fort— On the house Count Dracula has just leased
Peyton Fahrquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge.
ambrose bierce— An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1891)
