"Bilges" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sunset, however, so magnificent a prey came within my radius of action that I could not possibly refuse her. No sailor could fail to recognize that glorious monarch of the sea, with her four cream funnels tipped with black, her huge black sides, her red bilges, and her high white top-hamper, roaring up Channel at twenty-three knots, and carrying her forty-five thousand tons as lightly as if she were a five-ton motor- boat. It was the queenly Olympic, of the White Star—once the largest and still the comeliest of liners. What a picture she ...
— Danger! and Other Stories • Arthur Conan Doyle |
