Afloat and Ashore; Or the Adventures of Miles WallingfordThe Author, 1844 - 282 pàgines |
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... Captain Wal- lingford was generally supposed to be one of the stiffest men in Ulster county . I do not know exactly how true was this report ; though I never saw anything but the abundance of a better sort of American farm under the ...
... Captain Wal- lingford was generally supposed to be one of the stiffest men in Ulster county . I do not know exactly how true was this report ; though I never saw anything but the abundance of a better sort of American farm under the ...
Pàgina 66
... Captain Wallingford , has now been dead some years . " The master of the John was a man of about fifty , red - faced , hard - looking , pock - marked , square - rigged , and of an exterior that promised anything but sentiment . Feeling ...
... Captain Wallingford , has now been dead some years . " The master of the John was a man of about fifty , red - faced , hard - looking , pock - marked , square - rigged , and of an exterior that promised anything but sentiment . Feeling ...
Pàgina 67
... Captain Miles Walling- ford ? " he asked in a low voice- " of Miles Wallingford , from up the river ? " " I am , sir ; his only son . He left but two of us , a son and a daughter ; and , though under no necessity to work at all , I wish ...
... Captain Miles Walling- ford ? " he asked in a low voice- " of Miles Wallingford , from up the river ? " " I am , sir ; his only son . He left but two of us , a son and a daughter ; and , though under no necessity to work at all , I wish ...
Pàgina 69
... Captain Rob- bins had provided us both with chests , paid for out of the three months ' advance , and in them we found the slops necessary for so long a voyage . Rupert and I immediately put on suits of these new clothes , with regular ...
... Captain Rob- bins had provided us both with chests , paid for out of the three months ' advance , and in them we found the slops necessary for so long a voyage . Rupert and I immediately put on suits of these new clothes , with regular ...
Pàgina 70
... captain sending for him to the cabin , where he set him to work to copy some papers . Rupert wrote a beautiful hand , and he wrote rapidly . That evening I heard the chief - mate tell the dickey that the parson's son was likely to turn ...
... captain sending for him to the cabin , where he set him to work to copy some papers . Rupert wrote a beautiful hand , and he wrote rapidly . That evening I heard the chief - mate tell the dickey that the parson's son was likely to turn ...
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American anchor Andrew Drewett answered ascer began better boat bolt-rope Bradfort brig called canvass Captain Robbins Captain Williams cerning Clawbonny coast Compte course Crisis dear deck Digges dollars Emily everything eyes fancied father favour feeling fellow felt forecastle French gave girl give Grace guarda-costas hands Hardinge heard hope hour instant island knew lady land laugh letter-of-marque look Lucy Lucy's lugger Major Merton manner Marble Masser Mile mate matter minutes Miss Merton morning never nigger night nolle prosequi ocean passage passed pearls pounds currency pretty proas ready reef round Rupert sail sailor savages schooner seemed seen ship sister sloop Smudge soon sort stay-sail suppose taffrail Talcott tell thing thought Tigris tion told took top-mast true turned Ulster county vessel voyage Wallingford whole wind wish yawl young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 244 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Pàgina 86 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Pàgina 25 - The monarch mind, the mystery of commanding, The birth-hour gift, the art Napoleon, Of winning, fettering, moulding, wielding, banding The hearts of millions till they move as one : Thou hast it.
Pàgina 239 - Drink ! drink ! to whom shall we drink ? To a friend or a mistress ? — Come, let me think ! To those who are absent, or those who are here ? To the dead that we loved, or the living still dear ? Alas ! when I look, I find none of the last ! The present is barren — let 's drink to the past.
Pàgina 134 - With look, like patient Job's, eschewing evil ; With motions graceful as a bird's in air ; Thou art, in sober truth, the veriest devil That e'er clenched fingers in a captive's hair?
Pàgina 245 - How pleasant and how sad the turning tide Of human life, when side by side The child and youth begin to glide Along the vale of years : The pure twin-being for a little space, With lightsome heart, and yet a graver face, Too young for woe, though not for tears ! ALLSTON.