Like a groggy - eyed Jonah waking up from a nap in the dark hull of a boat and giving incoherent answers to questions from desperate sailors caught in a life - threatening storm, we step out of our churches still tingling from the goose - bump worship experience, and give incoherent answers to our neighbors about the problems with their marriage, their wayward pregnant daughter, their drug - abusing son, and what God wants from them to fix it all. (redeeminggod.com)
This makes the boats very stable and spacious, with the dive gear in the front compartment and the guests sitting comfortably on the broad padded hull of the boat, under the shade cloth, to the rear. (diveplanit.com)
It is a trek repeated today in the heat of the Sonoran desert, in boats from Africa running ashore in southern Europe, in the hulls of boats from Fujian province to the shores of Long Island. (religion-online.org)