"Ballasting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Arlington presently took leave to join Byle, with whom he voyaged back to Marietta. Wrapped in meditation he sat, taciturn, ballasting the unstable piroque which his stalwart comrade propelled with astonishing speed against the current. Chester spoke not a dozen sentences during the tedious passage from the island to the village. Byle, strange to say, also held his tongue, but he watched his melancholy ...
— A Dream of Empire - Or, The House of Blennerhassett • William Henry Venable |
