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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]).
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. ‘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
  8. Too much depended on what he might find inside that hull.
    — from The Lani People by Jesse F. Bone
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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

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