"Holystone" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... down into the galley lying at the quarter-boom. Few men could have resisted the appeal of that long slim boat with the water lapping invitingly against her clinker-built sides. The brasswork in her gleamed in the sun like jewels set in ivory, for the woodwork was as near the whiteness of ivory as holystone and sharkskin could make it. She had little white mats with blue borders on the thwarts and in the sternsheets, and her yoke, of curious Chinese design, had a history as mysterious and legendary as the ...
— A Tall Ship - On Other Naval Occasions • Sir Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie
... "It was about spillin' some tar on the deck, an' now the Dago's got to stop up this arternoon an' holystone it clean in his ...
— Those Who Smiled - And Eleven Other Stories • Perceval Gibbon |
