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Flying Dutchman   /flˈaɪɪŋ dˈətʃmən/   Listen
Flying Dutchman

noun
1.
The captain of a phantom ship (the Flying Dutchman) who was condemned to sail against the wind until Judgment Day.
2.
A phantom ship that is said to appear in storms near the Cape of Good Hope.






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"Flying Dutchman" Quotes from Famous Books



... madame—Schumann's "Reverie," nothing but the stringed instruments, a warm shower falling on acacia leaves, a sunray which dries them, barely a tear in space. Wagner! ah, Wagner! the overture of the "Flying Dutchman," are you not fond of it?—tell me you are fond of it! As for myself, it overcomes me. There is nothing left, nothing ...
— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola

... two get on so well together; but I knew you would hit it off. Mr. Comly has been most kind and considerate, Julia. In my long pilgrimage I have never before met a man so much to my taste. The Wandering Jew and the Flying Dutchman had no such luck. Sweet it is to wander with a good comrade, taking no care for the morrow, but letting every day suffice ...
— Blacksheep! Blacksheep! • Meredith Nicholson

... mood, and I find it magnificent to really feel alive again, after crawling in the dust so long, with the taste of it in my mouth. So don't pity me. As for Karl—he looks wild and strange, like the Flying Dutchman with his spectral hand on the helm. But I don't know that I want you to pity him either. He is a curious man, with a passionate soul, and if he flares out like a torch in the wind, it will be fitting enough. No, don't ...
— The Precipice • Elia Wilkinson Peattie

... Isolde is, like Romeo and Juliet an expression of the human heart for all time. So the love-duet in "The Flying Dutchman" has in it the consecration, the infinite self-denial, of love. The whole heart is given; every note has wings, and rises and poises like an eagle in the heaven ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various

... radical development of Wagner's theories we see in "The Flying Dutchman." In "Tanhhaeser" and "Lohengrin" they find full sway. The utter revolt of his mind from the trivial and commonplace sentimentalities of Italian opera led him to believe that the most heroic and lofty motives alone ...
— The Great German Composers • George T. Ferris

... "Mary Louisa" was still unsettled. She was tearing away like a Flying Dutchman. She was oozing steam at every pore, and, glancing back, Bones saw the agitated countenance of the aged guard thrust through the window. He waved frantically at Bones, and ...
— Bones in London • Edgar Wallace

... died away till along came the "Flying Dutchman" from Dugan's, twenty miles up, floatin' on the ...
— Pardners • Rex Beach



Words linked to "Flying Dutchman" :   phantasma, shadow, fantasm, spectre, specter, phantom, apparition, phantasm



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