Hulks

The two lemkin hulks continued to pull on the rope, bringing in all of the slack as they neared a curved post that sat at the side of the largest burrow. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To be a shuttlecock between two racquets — one called the hulks, and the other the police — is a life in which success means never-ending toil, and peace and quiet seem quite impossible. ❋ Unknown (2007)

-- one called the hulks, and the other the police -- is a life in which success means never-ending toil, and peace and quiet seem quite impossible. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

Now the hulks are a disgrace to Europe, and a most incongruous appendage to a system that professes to cure by separate confinement. ❋ Charles Reade (1849)

"Reflect! how certain of destruction is the path you now tread; the gallows and the hulks are the only goals!" ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

October, 1748, she was reported among the "hulks" in port. ❋ Danske Dandridge (N/A)

People may think health clubs are filled with incredible hulks and smiling supermodels, surrounded by mysterious, sinister-looking weights and machines. ❋ LIVESTRONG.COM (2011)

Tom Rogers, author of Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics, joins us to discuss leaping hulks, giant ants, and why shooting down alien spaceships is harder than it looks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

East London's diversity was on display amid the charred hulks of cars and the smell of burning plastic. ❋ Unknown (2011)

This grueling post-apocalyptic National Book Award winner earns its scenes of menace and the odd expletive by believably conjuring a future in which people survive by scavenging materials from the rusting hulks of oil tankers. ❋ Meghan Cox Gurdon (2011)

There be no Georgia, or Botany Bay, useless hulks to house those that reject civil behavior .. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

I looked back at the misshapen, starved, sick, stumbling hulks of men who trod the dreary round of the windlass. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The whole opening scene is perfect; misty and spooky, with the hulks – the prison ships from one of which Magwitch has escaped – at anchor in the distance. ❋ Unknown (2011)

With the Afghanistan and Iraq hulks still burning on the horizon, the "west" is proposing to send another Crusader army into another Arab nation? ❋ Unknown (2011)

Confusing this mention of Betty Cooper for Betty Ross, Bruce hulks out. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There were still tank hulks in situ and rusted helmets, empty German gas mask containers scattered around. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The refrigerator and stove were just squatting hulks in the dark kitchen. ❋ Elizabeth Woods (2011)