"Draught" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... just as big, hulks of full your length and beam and draught, and in a breeze I've seen vessels of less ...
— Wide Courses • James Brendan Connolly
... is becoming visible more and more, in that character, as the Transitory more and more vanishes; for from of old it was remarked that when the Gods appear among men, it is seldom in recognisable shape; thus Admetus' neatherds give Apollo a draught of their goatskin whey-bottle (well if they do not give him strokes with their ox-rungs), not dreaming that he is the Sungod! This man's name is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He is Herzog Weimar's Minister, come with the small ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle
... I have drunk, and they for ever Have poisoned life and love for me; A draught from Sodom's lake could never More fiery, salt, ...
— Poems • (AKA Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte) Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
... think about that. Something's wanted, and the bell rings, and somebody shouts down the speaking-tube, and off you go. It is precious cold sometimes, though, for the men at our place keep the room so hot. They can't bear a breath of air here, and for fear of a draught, and then getting their fingers cold so that they can't feel the type, they paste paper over every crack, and have all the windows fastened down, and make you pay a fine for leaving the door open. Why, ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... couple close by flirted a fan by turns, making an unpleasant draught. Francie and one of her lovers stood near. ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
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