Famous quotes containing the words tropical and/or years:
“Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
That frequently happens in tropical climes
When a vessel is, so to speak, snarked.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“Miss Knag still aimed at youth, although she had shot beyond it, years ago.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)