Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
Source: Travels With Charley, 1962.
-- John Steinbeck, (Feb 27 1902-1968), US novelist; He aroused widespread sympathy for the plight of migratory farm workers in The Grapes of Wrath, 1939; won Nobel Prize, 1962.