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• They (local authorities) are caught between the deep blue sea of the rates and the frying-pan of the Poll Tax.
• Who am I to come between a man and his rock? -- Devil's Heart.
• The captain. He's a real son of the sea. He first became interested in ships when his mother approached him.
  John, your father wants you to build a boat at once," she said....
• A drowning man will catch at a straw. -- Proverb
• Twas midnight on the ocean, Her children all were orpha
  Not a streetcar was in sight, Except one a tiny tot, So I stepped into a cigar store Who had a home across the way To ask them for a light....
• Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vai
  Man marks the earth with ruin,--his control Stops with the shore....
• The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
  -- Bryan W. Procter (1787-1874) -- The Sea...
• HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone.
  The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old-fashioned sea-captains....
• You would toss a drowning man both ends of a rope.