Behind them lies two hours and forty minutes' frenzied toil in the heat of the boiler-tops, where the arched bunkers keep the air stifling; two hours and forty minutes' work with tools that race and slither to the rolling of the ship, with bolts that burn and blister, with steam that knows no master when she's loose.
"An Ocean Tramp"
William McFee
One man may catch sharply and row cleanly, and in a style calculated to make a boat travel; his colleague may slither the beginning and tug at the end, staying a fraction of a second later in the water than the other, but rowing no longer in reach.
"Boating"
W. B. Woodgate Commentator: Harvey Mason
There came a gentle ripple through the foliage beside him, a slither of sound that kept pace endlessly.
"One Purple Hope!"
Henry Hasse