Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.
It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea.
Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.
Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle
The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore.
It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship." "It's awful worse luck not to.
