Literary notes about hull (AI summary)
In literature, "hull" is most commonly employed to describe the outer structure of a ship, evoking images of strength or vulnerability in the face of nature’s unruly forces. Its use spans a spectrum of contexts—from the solid, unyielding body seen in Jules Verne’s vividly described vessels ([1], [2], [3]) to instances where damage to the hull underscores the calamity of battle or storm ([4], [5], [6]). Authors also extend the term metaphorically, as when it symbolizes the container of a day's labor or inner potential ([7], [8]), blurring the line between the physical framework of a ship and challenges in human experience. At times, the word even steps outside nautical boundaries, referencing locations or serving as a playful pun, as seen in mentions that juxtapose it with character names or urban settings ([9], [10], [11]).
- However, the ship hadn't suffered in any way, so solidly joined was its hull.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - Just then a shell hit the Nautilus's hull obliquely, failed to breach it, ricocheted near the captain, and vanished into the sea.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - Under this powerful thrust the Nautilus's hull quivered like a resonating chord, and the ship sank steadily under the waters.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - She was set on fire three times by red-hot shot, and much cut up in her hull, masts and rigging.
— from Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding - And the force of the wind had snatched away their sails and shattered in twain the hull, tossed as it was by the breakers.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius - A great part of the copper sheathing had been torn from the hull, which every day sank lower.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne - ‘You doen’t ought—a married man like you—or what’s as good—to take and hull away a day’s work.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - Too much depended on what he might find inside that hull.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. Bone - Eleanor Hull's "Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster," London, 1911, is a retelling of the story for younger readers.
— from The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge - Grandson of Joseph Sykes of West Ella, Hull, brother of the Rev. Sir Mark Sykes, 1st Bart.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call by Charles Dalton - Well, my dear, I got to Hull all right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker