"Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by……" — Robert Ludlum

Related Quotes

• A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's… — Tomas Transtromer
• It was cold and windy, scarcely the day to take a walk on that long beach Everything was withdrawn as… — Elizabeth Bishop
• There was no lifeboat here in these deep, killing waters, not even a lighthouse, marking the way back to shore… — Karen Marie Moning
• The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest,… — Lewis Francis Herreshoff
• Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea. — Jean-Paul Sartre
• Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the… — Homer
• The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great… — Paul Gauguin
• So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
• He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into… — Charles Dickens
• Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared… — Thor Heyerdahl