Afloat and Ashore; Or the Adventures of Miles WallingfordThe Author, 1844 - 282 pàgines |
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Pàgina 45
... deal consoled the girls . Rupert , too , who had unaccountably kept back , throwing the labouring - oar altogether on me , came to the rescue , and , with his subtle manner and oily tongue , began to make the wrong MILES WALLINGFORD . 45.
... deal consoled the girls . Rupert , too , who had unaccountably kept back , throwing the labouring - oar altogether on me , came to the rescue , and , with his subtle manner and oily tongue , began to make the wrong MILES WALLINGFORD . 45.
Pàgina 46
James Fenimore Cooper. manner and oily tongue , began to make the wrong appear the right . I do not think he blinded his own sister in the least , but I fear he had too much influence over mine . Lucy , though all heart , was as much ...
James Fenimore Cooper. manner and oily tongue , began to make the wrong appear the right . I do not think he blinded his own sister in the least , but I fear he had too much influence over mine . Lucy , though all heart , was as much ...
Pàgina 55
... began to have a double value in my eyes , and to serve as so many cords attached to my heart- strings , and to remind me that the rover " Drags at each remove a lengthening chain . " I marvelled at Rupert's tranquillity . I did not then ...
... began to have a double value in my eyes , and to serve as so many cords attached to my heart- strings , and to remind me that the rover " Drags at each remove a lengthening chain . " I marvelled at Rupert's tranquillity . I did not then ...
Pàgina 56
James Fenimore Cooper. and began to feel drowsy ; and I was too much wrapped up in my own busy thoughts to solicit any communications . I found a sort of sad- dened pleasure in setting a watch for the night , therefore , which had an air ...
James Fenimore Cooper. and began to feel drowsy ; and I was too much wrapped up in my own busy thoughts to solicit any communications . I found a sort of sad- dened pleasure in setting a watch for the night , therefore , which had an air ...
Pàgina 59
... began to turn down with the tide . It was near sunset before we got a view of the two or three spires that then piloted strangers to the town . New York was not the " commercial emporium " in 1796 ; so high - sounding a title , indeed ...
... began to turn down with the tide . It was near sunset before we got a view of the two or three spires that then piloted strangers to the town . New York was not the " commercial emporium " in 1796 ; so high - sounding a title , indeed ...
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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.