deck-chairs

The deck-chairs were on that side, so I stole around on the starboard side of the chart-house in order to fling overboard unobserved the dreadful thing I carried.

CHAPTER XXIII 2010

Indeed, we may well remember the current cheerfulness of those donkeys, those blinkered fools currently talking up the prospects of Wall Street, not to mention the overpaid mandarins just now taking their leisure in Jackson Hole, Wyo., as engaged in perhaps the most spectacular case of rearranging deck-chairs since that regrettable incident involving the R.M.S. Titanic.

Jackson Hole, Wyo. 2009

Your senior shiny pips team thinks that by re-arranging the deck-chairs they can magically prevent the Titanic from sinking.

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And we, in our comfortable deck-chairs, our two servants at our backs, the quintessence of elegant leisure, sipped delicate tea from beautiful, fragile cups, and looked on at these wretched ones whose labour made possible the journey of our little world.

CHAPTER XXVI 2010

While the poop is quite large for promenading, the available space for deck-chairs is limited to the awnings that stretch across from either side of the chart-house and that are of the width of the chart-house.

CHAPTER XX 2010

His little song of love, fraught with keenness of anxiety, came to the ears of a man and woman lounging in deck-chairs under the awning; and it was the quick-eyed woman who first saw the golden head of Jerry and cried out what she saw.

CHAPTER XX 2010

Indeed, we may well remember the current cheerfulness of those donkeys, those blinkered fools currently talking up the prospects of Wall Street, not to mention the overpaid mandarins just now taking their leisure in Jackson Hole, Wyo., as engaged in perhaps the most spectacular case of rearranging deck-chairs since that regrettable incident involving the R.M.S. Titanic.

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

Some protesters sat in deck-chairs to listen to speeches and Thai rock music on the main stage, while others milled around to sample spicy Thai salads and other delicacies from the north of the country.

Thai Soldiers Hurt During Protests James Hookway 2010

Meanwhile, images of deck-chairs, promenades, ice creams and slot machines, and the taste of sand in a sandwich and slosh of rain on an esplanade, are such familiar parts of our folk memory they almost feel implanted in our brains.

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Now I'm scrambling over myself re-arranging the deck-chairs.

mikandra: today mikandra 2010