Japanese Combined Fleet

Famous quotes containing the words japanese, combined and/or fleet:

    “I am a lantern—
    My head a moon
    Of Japanese paper, my gold beaten skin
    Infinitely delicate and infinitely expensive.”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

    “A taste for drink, combined with gout,
    Had doubled him up forever.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “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)