Amphibians Quote by Thomas Mann

“Frustration, too evident in the cement clench of his jaw. Distance, the ethereal detached from the flesh and bone. Impatience, in the soft thrum…

— Ellen Hopkins

“Unmatch'd at the bottle, unconquer'd in war, He drank his poor god-ship as deep as the sea; No tide of the Baltic e'er drunker…

— Robert Burns

“The sea was the first thing he had found that was large enough to absorb his sorrow. After”

— Nina George

“He reflected on his hitherto reflection that soldiers and sailors were, upon the whole, quite different creatures. ‘And perhaps they are, too: yet perhaps…

— Patrick O'Brian

“Despite himself he scoffed—a staccato bark of saliva—at the very notion of ladders.”

— Gordon Dahlquist

“I’m gross. Look at me – getting all sloppy in front of my mortal enemy. Unexecutable. Inexhaustible. Un…un…under the sea.”

— Sara Wolf

“Major Eele observed Studdy clumsily thinking. He saw an opportunity to create a pleasant mischief and did so immediately.”

— William Trevor

“Sometimes he awoke with a feeling of fragments afloat in his sleep, but he couldn't seem to grasp them and put them together into…

— Lois Lowry

“He seemed a little uneasy, and he welcomed me with something of the gratitude of the shipwrecked mariner who sights a sail.”

— P G Wodehouse

“There was a softness around him, and a languor crept upon his limbs. A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden…

— John Williams

“her father had built from ax-hewn planks thatched with bamboo and grass. The floor was dirt, but it was clean. Her mother, Foua, sprinkled…

— Anne Fadiman

“And there he was, dead. He had finally succumbed to the exhaustion, no longer could he tread the waters of the sea inside him,…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller