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Literary notes about LINER (AI summary)

The word "liner" has been employed in literature with a remarkable range of meanings. In some cases it appears as a reference to large ships or vessels—a usage that evokes images of grandeur and movement, as seen in descriptions of ocean liners in [1], [2], [3], and even when a building is metaphorically compared to an ocean liner in [4]. On the other hand, "liner" takes on a more mundane or technical character when denoting an inner layer or component, as found in the culinary texts of [5] and [6]. Additionally, its application in character descriptions—as in the somewhat dismissive “penny-a-liner” labeling of a buffoon in [7] and [8]—illustrates a metaphorical or idiomatic usage that conveys worth or quality. Finally, the term appears in literary narrative moments, such as when a character fixates on a liner with a mix of reverence and terror in [9], [10], and [11], demonstrating its capacity to enrich imagery and mood.
  1. A Diesel tug run wild in the harbor while the crew was below and shoved in the port bow of the luck-shury liner S. S. Placentia .
    — from The Marching Morons by C. M. Kornbluth
  2. In 1840 the first Cunard liner, of 740 horse-power with a speed of 8.5 knots per hour, was launched.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  3. I got to the side in time to see a huge liner’s dim shape slide by like a street at night; she would have been invisible but for her row of lights.
    — from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge
  4. I saw a building jutting out like a great white ocean liner toward the blue brine.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  5. The complete weight is 9451.8 gr., but the inner liner is stamped CVM
    — from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
  6. There is a second vessel inside, acting as a liner, to take the weight of the fluid off the decorated bowl.
    — from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
  7. He was a penny-a-liner, and a buffoon.
    — from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe
  8. He is a music master, or a penny-a-liner, or a third-rate artist.
    — from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James
  9. Paul was standing with clenched fists, head drooping, staring at the liner as in terror.
    — from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
  10. But Paul desired to see a liner.
    — from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
  11. “It's no good blaming me, Mr. Hammond,” wheezed old Captain Johnson, staring at the liner.
    — from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

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