"Sponge" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... straight to the quay," exclaimed a fifth, "though what sends her Satan alone knows, for the tide is slack and this wind would scarce move a sponge boat. Stand by with the hawser, or she'll swing round and ...
— Red Eve • H. Rider Haggard
... hours at a time, stopping, perhaps, only during the very hottest part of the day. And when an elephant is very tired it begins to perspire, or "sweat," over each eye, and two little hollow places there look as though they had been wet with a sponge. ...
— Umboo, the Elephant • Howard R. Garis
... be little doubt of the stranger's confidence in the coming of the expected company. In token thereof, he went first to the litter, and, from the cot or box opposite the one he had occupied in coming, produced a sponge and a small gurglet of water, with which he washed the eyes, face, and nostrils of the camel; that done, from the same depository he drew a circular cloth, red-and white-striped, a bundle of rods, and a stout cane. The latter, after some manipulation, proved to be a cunning ...
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace
... pleases thee. The little world, and then the great, we'll see. With what delight, what profit winning, Shalt thou sponge through ...
— Faust • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
... soil of Central Asia is like a sponge impregnated with liquid hydrogen. At the port of Bakou, on the Persian frontier, on the Caspian Sea, in Asia Minor, in China, on the Yuen-Kiang, in the Burman Empire, springs of mineral oil rise in thousands to the surface of the ground. It is an "oil country," similar to the one which ...
— Michael Strogoff - or, The Courier of the Czar • Jules Verne
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