Afloat and Ashore; Or the Adventures of Miles WallingfordThe Author, 1844 - 282 pàgines |
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Pàgina x
... eyes ; the difficulty is , to understand that which we have no means of studying . On the subject of the nautical incidents of this book , we have endeavoured to be as exact as our authorities will allow . We are fully aware of the ...
... eyes ; the difficulty is , to understand that which we have no means of studying . On the subject of the nautical incidents of this book , we have endeavoured to be as exact as our authorities will allow . We are fully aware of the ...
Pàgina 11
... eyes and look upon your babes - your precious girl , and noble boy ! Do not thus shut out their sight for ever ! " But it was in vain . There lay the lifeless corpse , as insensible as if the spirit of God had never had a dwelling ...
... eyes and look upon your babes - your precious girl , and noble boy ! Do not thus shut out their sight for ever ! " But it was in vain . There lay the lifeless corpse , as insensible as if the spirit of God had never had a dwelling ...
Pàgina 22
... eyes of a heavenly blue , all softness and tenderness ; her cheeks , just of the tint of the palest of the coloured roses ; and her smile so full of gentleness and feeling , that , again and again , it has controlled my ruder and more ...
... eyes of a heavenly blue , all softness and tenderness ; her cheeks , just of the tint of the palest of the coloured roses ; and her smile so full of gentleness and feeling , that , again and again , it has controlled my ruder and more ...
Pàgina 23
... eyes , and the dazzling whiteness of her skin . Her colour , too , was high , and change- ful with her emotions . As for teeth , she had a set that one might have travelled weeks to meet with their equals ; and , though she seemed to ...
... eyes , and the dazzling whiteness of her skin . Her colour , too , was high , and change- ful with her emotions . As for teeth , she had a set that one might have travelled weeks to meet with their equals ; and , though she seemed to ...
Pàgina 24
... eyes , they invariably met my own with an open frank- ness that said , as plainly as eyes could say any- thing , there was nothing to be concealed . CHAPTER II . Cease to persuade , my loving Proteus 24 MILES WALLINGFORD .
... eyes , they invariably met my own with an open frank- ness that said , as plainly as eyes could say any- thing , there was nothing to be concealed . CHAPTER II . Cease to persuade , my loving Proteus 24 MILES WALLINGFORD .
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.