I am thinking now of Joseph, his march on Washington to exorcise all the demons, stuffing rose stems down the silent barrels of M-16s, calling out to Jehovah, to Pan, to sea-born Aphrodite, to any sphincter god to grant the power of levitation. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It's also connected to the rise in antibiotic resistant strains of deadly sea-born bacteria said scientists at the AAAS meeting whose theme was global warming this year. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Hephaestus 'golden forge the harness he had fashioned for that warrior's use; him long they sought o'er Pelion and Ossa's spurs, ranging the sacred glens and the peaks of Nymphaea, where his knightly sire was training up a light for Hellas, even the sea-born son of Thetis, a warrior swift to help the sons of Atreus. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Son of Peleus, thy words are alike worthy of thee and that sea-born deity, the holy goddess. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Germany might well mount an aerial attack and attempt a sea-born invasion, Churchill said, but England would wear them down by attacking the “congested and centralised war industry”—the cities—“in the Ruhr.” ❋ Nicholson Baker (2008)
For her sake, Troy, did eager warriors, sailing from Hellas in a thousand ships, capture and make thee a prey to fire and sword; and the son of sea-born Thetis mounted on his chariot dragged my husband Hector round the walls, ah woe is me! while I was hurried from my chamber to the beach, with slavery's hateful pall upon me. ❋ Unknown (2007)
PELTON: Well, strategically, most people don't know, but most ship traffic has to be narrowed into a very sort of thin line as it comes through the canal there, which makes it an absolutely perfect target for anybody with sea-born facilities. ❋ Unknown (2007)
A terminal is basically a sea-born port where liquefied natural gas would come into the U.S. in a tanker. ❋ Unknown (2006)
All he knew was that a sea-born coolness washed over him. ❋ Gregory Spencer (2004)
I watched her go, picking her way across the courtyard, vast figure swaying like a sea-born ship. ❋ Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- (2003)
And they were oath-siblings to the Keiki Moana, fared with them, foregathered with them, rejoiced with them, mourned with them, until those strong sea-born instincts roused human urges that they had believed were safely buried. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1994)
The Terran wanted to reach that water, could picture it in his mind, putting away the possibility -- the probability -- that it might be sea-born and salt, and so unfit to drink. ❋ Andre Norton (1958)
But unlike the mermen, he was not sea-born, nor equipped by nature with a secondary breathing apparatus to make him as free in the world of water as he was on land. ❋ Andre Norton (1958)