ocean liner

Opposite is a red-brick monastery leaning like an ocean liner in the snow.

The economy is like an ocean liner that turns only very slowly.

The slender steel shell of an ocean liner is not constructed to resist the law of gravity acting on full five thousand tons.

His room was as well arranged as the stateroom of the captain on an ocean liner.

I thought again of the ocean liner plunging in the opposite direction, and what my father was thinking at that moment.

And, after all, an ocean liner is from one point of view a retreat from the greater dangers of the streets of London.

You might as well have tried to shove in the broadside of an ocean liner as to push against that foot.