Ships, to poets

Usage examples of keels.

As they neared, Sy-wen saw that the keels under these strange boats were made of some peculiar metal that glinted under the columns of sunlight, a long rib of metal that glowed a bright red.

Sy-wen continued her sweeping survey, she saw the crackles of silvery energy grow more violent along the keels of the five ships.

The metal of the keels grew from a deep bloodred to a fiery pale rose, almost as if the ore were heating up.

The crackling grew more intense, sparking now with small bolts of lightning, feathering out from the keels like jagged spears.

Glancing behind, Meric saw that the keels of the five Thunderclouds now raged with energy.

The Virgin crowding all sail, made after her four young keels, and thus they all disappeared far to leeward, still in bold, hopeful chase.

But no sooner did the herd, by some presumed wonderful instinct of the Sperm Whale, become notified of the three keels that were after them,-- though as yet a mile in their rear,--than they rallied again, and forming in close ranks and battalions, so that their spouts all looked like flashing lines of stacked bayonets, moved on with redoubled velocity.

This allowed a minor collision, and one of the growing keels was badly cracked, while a scratch penetrated all four protective coats of the older hull.

Otherwise, while the little craft still floated with keels horizontal, the high side of the developing deck sandwiched between them now caught a good deal of air.

Nothing, as far as anyone could tell, was under her keels but water for nearly three thousand vertical kilometers.

The keels were hung at Shanghai Shipyard at the same time that Chinese reactors and enriched fuel cores were installed.

That remained shrouded beneath its baffles, but she had no doubt it would show the peacock mottling, like oil on water, that was characteristic of the keels cast in the Hegemony.

All across the Gulf of Kossuth, the urbrafts and seafactories were hauling keels west at whatever speed they could manage.

Carrier and Champlain of New France in the east have their counterparts and contemporaries on the Pacific coast of America in Francis Drake, the English pirate on the coast of California, and in Staduchin and Deshneff and other Cossack plunderers of the North Pacific, whose rickety keels first ploughed a furrow over the trackless sea out from Asia.

Even from here, their magickal iron keels glowed softly in the night, an inner elemental fire holding the ships aloft.