"Keelson" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... grow with age. This is the twelfth Christmas I've spent at home, and I assure you I quite look forward to it: that's a confession, eh?—from one who has sailed under Nelson and smelt powder in his time." The boy knew that he must be listening to the Touch-me-not, whose keelson came from an old line-of-battle ship. "To be sure," the voice went on graciously, "a great deal depends on ...
— The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... sir! Both have gone together; and as good sticks was they, before them bomb-shells passed through our rigging, as was ever stepped in a keelson." ...
— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper |
