Comments by hill7

  • I read once in a book I can't remember, that someone was "keltered into the sea." Has anyone run into this?

    December 14, 2009

  • This word is used in "Moby Dick:"

    . . .whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet: and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street. . .

    June 17, 2009