Fleet

Fleet

A fleet is a collection of ships or vehicles, with many specific connotations:

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Famous quotes containing the word fleet:

    “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)

    “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)