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Familiar Quotations

Ashore, as opposed to "Sailing"

My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.–Dennis Conner

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!–Bob Dylan

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.–Mahatma Gandhi

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.–John Updike

Use in Literature

Ashore

As we went ashore at the pier at Sandridge I accosted him.–Rolf Boldrewood (T.A.Browne) in Robbery Under Arms.

When Fern Rock was reached, all went ashore, and our hero pointed out the ferns he had seen, and dug up such as the others wished to take along.–Horatio Alger in Joe The Hotel Boy.

He drove ashore in a small bark so swift And light, that in its course no wave it drank.–Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy, entire (tr H.F. Cary).

As the bodies were brought ashore, one by one, and laid upon the ground, she uttered the long wailing cry again and again, and the others repeated it in a sort of chorus.–Joseph A. Altsheler in The Scouts of the Valley.

They leaped ashore, drew the boat down the bank, and hastened toward a log house that they saw standing in a clump of trees.–Joseph A. Altsheler in The Scouts of the Valley.

As at the same time the barometer was rising steadily, Lieutenant Gjertsen went ashore on ski about one o'clock.–Roald Amundsen in The South Pole, vols 1 and 2.

I imagine that it has been formed by the decay of aquatic plants that have been washed ashore by the waves; decomposing, they have formed a mud deposit, and much potash is combined with the salt.–Samuel White Baker in The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile.

• Preface vii
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Ashore, as opposed to "Sailing" 1
• Use in Literature 2
• Ashore 2
• Ashore – "Admiral" 13
• Ashore – "Anchored" 13
• Ashore – "Arm" 14
• Ashore – "Beach" 15
• Ashore – "Being" 16
• Ashore – "Boats" 17
• Ashore – "Body" 17
• Ashore – "Breakfast" 18
• Ashore – "Canoe" 18
• Ashore – "Captain" 19
• Ashore – "Carried" 21
• Ashore – "Cast" 22
• Ashore – "Chance" 23
• Ashore – "Chiefly" 23
• Ashore – "Columbus" 24
• Ashore – "Come" 24
• Ashore – "Day" 30
• Ashore – "Dead" 33
• Ashore – "Don't" 33
• Ashore – "Driven" 34
• Ashore – "Evening" 35
• Ashore – "Eyes" 35
• Ashore – "Feet" 36
• Ashore – "Few" 37
• Ashore – "Fish" 38
• Ashore – "Finding" 38
• Ashore – "French" 40
• Ashore – "Getting" 40
• Ashore – "Go" 41
• Ashore – "Gone" 45
• Ashore – "Great" 46
• Ashore – "Hands" 47
• Ashore – "Having" 48
• Ashore – "Heard" 49
• Ashore – "Hoped" 50
• Ashore – "Hour" 51
• Ashore – "Indian" 51
• Ashore – "Island" 52
• Ashore – "Keepers" 53
• Ashore – "Land" 53
• Ashore – "Left" 55
• Ashore – "Let" 56
• Ashore – "Lives" 57
• Ashore – "Little" 58
• Ashore – "Look" 59
• Ashore – "Lose" 60
• Ashore – "Make" 61
• Ashore – "Men" 63
• Ashore – "Mate" 67
• Ashore – "Minutes" 68
• Ashore – "Morning" 68
• Ashore – "Natives" 69
• Ashore – "Near" 70
• Ashore – "News" 70
• Ashore – "Night" 71
• Ashore – "Officers" 72
• Ashore – "Old" 73
• Ashore – "Once" 74
• Ashore – "Orders" 75
• Ashore – "Party" 76
• Ashore – "Passengers" 77
• Ashore – "People" 77
• Ashore – "Place" 78
• Ashore – "Possible" 79
• Ashore – "Return" 79
• Ashore – "Round" 79
• Ashore – "Run" 80
• Ashore – "Sailed" 82
• Ashore – "Sailor" 82
• Ashore – "Sea" 84
• Ashore – "Seeing" 85
• Ashore – "Sent" 85
• Ashore – "Shall" 87
• Ashore – "Ship" 88
• Ashore – "Sooner" 90
• Ashore – "Stayed" 93
• Ashore – "Stopped" 93
• Ashore – "Taking" 94
• Ashore – "Thing" 94
• Ashore – "Thus" 95
• Ashore – "Tide" 96
• Ashore – "Vessel" 96
• Ashore – "Wanted" 98
• Ashore – "Water" 98
• Ashore – "White" 100
• Ashore – "Wind" 100
• Ashore – "Work" 101
• Ashore – "Young" 102
• Ashore, as opposed to "Sailing" 102
• Nonfiction Usage 105
• Script Usage 105
• Presidential Usage 105
• Song Title Usage 105
• Journalism Usage 105
• Governmental Usage 124
• Patent Usage 124
• Bibliographic Usage 124
• Encyclopedic Usage 142
• Lexicographic Usage 150
• Index 163