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Write half a dozen folios full of other people's ideas (as all folios are pretty sure to be), and you serve as ballast to the lower shelves of a library, about as like to be disturbed as the kentledge in the hold of a ship.— Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
From the kentledge on the kelson— The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
She is ballasted with utilities; not altogether with unusable pig-lead and kentledge.— Moby Dick, or, the whale
My breast has felt the last four-and-twenty hours as if a ton of kentledge had been stowed in it.— Pathfinder; or, the inland sea
In the planked room, or magazine, were placed one hundred barrels of gunpowder in bulk; and on the deck, immediately above the powder, were laid fifty thirteen-and-a-half-inch shells, and one hundred nine-inch shells, with a large quantity of shot, pieces of kentledge, and fragments of iron of different sorts.— The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)
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