Literary notes about Inlet (AI summary)
The term inlet is employed throughout literature with a rich variety of meanings, ranging from the physical to the abstract. In geographical narratives and exploration accounts, it designates a recess or opening along a coastline—a safe harbor or a point where a river meets the sea—as seen in descriptions of coastal indentations and river discharges [1][2][3]. In adventure literature, such as that by Stevenson, the inlet marks a strategic navigational point or a hidden entryway into uncharted territories [4][5][6]. Beyond its geographical connotation, technical and mechanical writings use inlet to denote a passage for fluids or gases in machines, emphasizing its role as a point of entry essential to a system’s operation [7][8][9]. Moreover, in philosophical and metaphorical contexts the term becomes a symbol of access to deeper realms of understanding or truth [10][11][12].
- on the North side of the columbia a little above the entrance of this inlet a considerable river discharges itself.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis - after breakfast we proceeded on and at the distance of 14 miles from our encampment of the last evening we passed a large inlet 300 yds in width.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis - A few boats were hauled bottom upward before the door, and the icy water of the Hudson lapped the shore of a small inlet only a stone's throw distant.
— from Harper's Round Table, February 18, 1896 by Various - We could run so much the easier from the north-east corner of the island to the mouth of the North Inlet.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - I mean to get into North Inlet and beach her quietly there.”
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - Three miles farther, just inside the mouth of North Inlet, what should we meet but the Hispaniola , cruising by herself?
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - The valve seats, and the inlet and exhaust pipes, are seen in section.
— from How it Works by Archibald Williams - This rocks the lever R , and allows the valves in the inlet pipe to close and reduce the supply of air and gas.
— from How it Works by Archibald Williams - [Pg 100] It then passes to the engine inlet pipe through a number of openings, after mixing with air entering from below.
— from How it Works by Archibald Williams - Perception the Inlet of all materials of Knowledge.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 by John Locke - I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know .
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson - You cannot recall the spoken word, [135] you cannot wipe out the foot-track, you cannot draw up the ladder, so as to leave no inlet or clew.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
