Quotes by S. P. Meek

“Planetara was still in the earth’s shadow. The firmament––black interstellar space with its blazing white, red and yellow stars––lay spread around us. The moon, with nearly all its disc illumined, hung, a great silver ball, over 317 our bow quarter. Behind it, to one side, Mars floated like the red tip of a smoldering cigarillo in the blackness. The earth, behind our stern, was dimly, redly visible––a giant sphere, etched with the configurations of its oceans and continents. Upon one limb a touch of the sunlight hung on the mountain-tops with a crescent red-yellow sheen.””

“Look!” he cried, staring with unbelieving eyes. Rusty, almost through the gates of death, had heard the anguished cry of the mistress he worshipped. Death was beckoning imperatively to him, but the brave little heart would not surrender. His glazed yes opened and his hot, dry tongue went out in a feeble attempt to lick the tears away from the cheeks he loved. Colonel S.P. Meek, Rusty: A Cocker Spaniel””

“Into Thy hands, Oh Lord, we deliver ourselves. Do with us as seems best to Thy wisdom and Thy mercy, but we pray that none may die because we fail or falter. Grant us, if it be Thy will, an honorable end, serving in They service. Amen.””

“Now they knew that brave men, men skilled in rescue work, were on shore waiting to aid them.””

“Once my locale was decided upon, the choice of my hero became automatic. The most popular breed of dogs along the Outer Banks (and at Life Boat Stations in general, for that matter) is the Chesapeake retriever, or the Chesapeake Bay dog, as he is also frequently called. The Chesapeake is probably the finest performer in the water of any breed. They are tremendously powerful swimmers, and no surf will daunt them or make their courage fail.””