Afloat and Ashore; Or the Adventures of Miles WallingfordThe Author, 1844 - 282 pàgines |
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Pàgina 56
... deck , and go to sleep . This they both did without any parley , Rupert occupying an inner place , while Neb lay with his legs exposed to the night - air . The breeze freshened , and for some time I thought it might be necessary to reef ...
... deck , and go to sleep . This they both did without any parley , Rupert occupying an inner place , while Neb lay with his legs exposed to the night - air . The breeze freshened , and for some time I thought it might be necessary to reef ...
Pàgina 79
... deck with as much import- ance as if the weight of the State lay on my shoulders - paid a visit every five minutes to the bows , to see that the cable had not parted , and that the anchor did not " come home " - and then looked aloft ...
... deck with as much import- ance as if the weight of the State lay on my shoulders - paid a visit every five minutes to the bows , to see that the cable had not parted , and that the anchor did not " come home " - and then looked aloft ...
Pàgina 80
... deck saw , or at least heeded , the boat . The John glided past it , and , the last I saw of my venerated guardian , he was standing erect , bare - headed , holding both arms extended , as if entreating us not to desert him ! Presently ...
... deck saw , or at least heeded , the boat . The John glided past it , and , the last I saw of my venerated guardian , he was standing erect , bare - headed , holding both arms extended , as if entreating us not to desert him ! Presently ...
Pàgina 81
... boarding us . I do not know whether I felt the most relieved or pained by the certainty of this fact . CHAPTER IV . There is a tide in the affairs E 5 MILES WALLINGFORD . 81 the deck, the boat was already a long distance ...
... boarding us . I do not know whether I felt the most relieved or pained by the certainty of this fact . CHAPTER IV . There is a tide in the affairs E 5 MILES WALLINGFORD . 81 the deck, the boat was already a long distance ...
Pàgina 84
... deck , when , to my astonishment , I discovered the agitated coun- tenance of Nebuchadnezzar Clawbonny . Of course the secret was out , the instant the lad's glistening features were recognised . Neb , in a word , had managed to get on ...
... deck , when , to my astonishment , I discovered the agitated coun- tenance of Nebuchadnezzar Clawbonny . Of course the secret was out , the instant the lad's glistening features were recognised . Neb , in a word , had managed to get on ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
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.