Fleet

Famous quotes containing the word fleet:

“A city on th’ inconstant billows dancing;
For so appears this fleet majestical.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“They ... fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“On the middle of that quiet floor
sits a fleet of small black ships,
square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
their spars like burned matchsticks.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)