"Belly up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... felt the pull of the line it gave a single convulsive jump. But after waiting a moment or two, Captain Rogers commanded the windlass to be manned again. Slowly the line came in and, after a time, the huge, inert, flabby body floated, belly up, just ...
— Swept Out to Sea - Clint Webb Among the Whalers • W. Bertram Foster
... the struggles ceased. The great carcass rolled over belly up, and lay extended on the sea in death. To me it seemed as if a dead calm had suddenly fallen around us, after a long and furious storm, so great was the change when that whale at length parted with its huge life. The silence was suddenly ...
— Fighting the Whales • R. M. Ballantyne |
