Afloat and Ashore; Or the Adventures of Miles WallingfordThe Author, 1844 - 282 pàgines |
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Pàgina 190
... Crisis , a very ca- pital name for a craft in a country where crises of one sort or another occur regularly as often as once in six months . She was a tight little ship of about four hundred tons , had hoop- pole bulwarks , as I ...
... Crisis , a very ca- pital name for a craft in a country where crises of one sort or another occur regularly as often as once in six months . She was a tight little ship of about four hundred tons , had hoop- pole bulwarks , as I ...
Pàgina 193
... Crisis left behind them orders with their wives and families to re- ceive their wages , in part , during their absence , as letters from time to time apprised the owners that these people were on board , and in dis- charge of their ...
... Crisis left behind them orders with their wives and families to re- ceive their wages , in part , during their absence , as letters from time to time apprised the owners that these people were on board , and in dis- charge of their ...
Pàgina 194
... Crisis was ready to sail in three days after I joined her . We hauled into the North river , as became the dignity of our voyage , and got our crew on board . On the whole , we mustered a pretty good body of men , ten of them being ...
... Crisis was ready to sail in three days after I joined her . We hauled into the North river , as became the dignity of our voyage , and got our crew on board . On the whole , we mustered a pretty good body of men , ten of them being ...
Pàgina 200
... Crisis , and to stick by the ship while she would float , as Mr. Adams thinks it necessary for him to present abolition petitions to a congress which will not receive them . We both of us , doubtless , believed ourselves the victims of ...
... Crisis , and to stick by the ship while she would float , as Mr. Adams thinks it necessary for him to present abolition petitions to a congress which will not receive them . We both of us , doubtless , believed ourselves the victims of ...
Pàgina 201
... Crisis was an unusually fast ship , faster even than the Tigris ; coppered to the bends , copper - fastened , and with a live - oak frame . No better craft sailed out of the republic . Uncle Sam had tried to purchase her for one of his ...
... Crisis was an unusually fast ship , faster even than the Tigris ; coppered to the bends , copper - fastened , and with a live - oak frame . No better craft sailed out of the republic . Uncle Sam had tried to purchase her for one of his ...
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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.