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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 He made a quick drop, slanting down on his back-swept wings, and then circled again.
2 It looked now as though he were moving into a great canyon of clouds and the wind had dropped.
3 But as the old man watched, a small tuna rose in the air, turned and dropped head first into the water.
4 They were fresh and hard and he laid them side by side and dropped the guts and the gills over the stern.
5 Then the line would not come in any more and he held it until he saw the drops jumping from it in the sun.
6 The dolphin were cutting through the water below the flight of the fish and would be in the water, driving at speed, when the fish dropped.
7 When he had cut six strips he spread them out on the wood of the bow, wiped his knife on his trousers, and lifted the carcass of the bonito by the tail and dropped it overboard.
8 The tuna shone silver in the sun and after he had dropped back into the water another and another rose and they were jumping in all directions, churning the water and leaping in long jumps after the bait.
9 Just then the stern line came taut under his foot, where he had kept a loop of the line, and he dropped his oars and felt the weight of the small tuna's shivering pull as he held the line firm and commenced to haul it in.
10 If they don't travel too fast I will get into them, the old man thought, and he watched the school working the water white and the bird now dropping and dipping into the bait fish that were forced to the surface in their panic.
11 When the wind was in the east a smell came across the harbour from the shark factory; but today there was only the faint edge of the odour because the wind had backed into the north and then dropped off and it was pleasant and sunny on the Terrace.
12 The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength, and more strength he had just summoned, into the fish's side just behind the great chest fin that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man's chest.