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"Shoal" Quotes from Famous Books

... absurdity till our Rationalist Punch, by way of signalizing his deliverance from Egyptian bondage, makes Pharaoh and his army forget that the tide ebbs and flows in the Red Sea, raises the tide over a shoal faster than cavalry could gallop from it, gathers an annual crop of twenty millions of bushels of manna from the thorn-bushes of Sinai, and feeds three millions of men, women, and children for forty years upon ...

— Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith - Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity • Robert Patterson

... was concerned, it was enough for him to know that I belonged to a family which he knew and liked, and hearing, moreover, of my fervent devotion to modern Italian and French music in particular, he decided that I was the very man for him. He had the whole shoal of Bellini's, Donizetti's, Adam's, and Auber's operatic scores copied out, and I was to give the good people of Riga the benefit of them with all ...

— My Life, Volume I • Richard Wagner

... on the sandy shoal of the Dogger, in twenty fathoms of water, and overhead I could see great ...

— The International Spy - Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War • Allen Upward

... shall close again By day nor yet by night, While man shall take his life to stake At risk of shoal or main (By ...

— The Seven Seas • Rudyard Kipling

... him sing, "Your harp is like a mesh, Woven of flesh And spread within the shoal Of life, where runs the tide-race of the soul In ...

— Behind the Arras - A Book of the Unseen • Bliss Carman

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