Afloat and Ashore; Or the Adventures of Miles WallingfordThe Author, 1844 - 282 pàgines |
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Pàgina 21
... morning , and to resume our amusements in company . From study , all of us were relieved for a month or two , and we wandered through the fields , nutted , gathered fruit , or saw others gather it , as well as the crops , taking as much ...
... morning , and to resume our amusements in company . From study , all of us were relieved for a month or two , and we wandered through the fields , nutted , gathered fruit , or saw others gather it , as well as the crops , taking as much ...
Pàgina 47
... morning , leaving us to follow before midnight . It was necessary to depart at night , and when the wharf was clear , in order to avoid obser- vation . Tuesday was an uneasy , nervous , and sad day for us all , Mr. Hardinge excepted ...
... morning , leaving us to follow before midnight . It was necessary to depart at night , and when the wharf was clear , in order to avoid obser- vation . Tuesday was an uneasy , nervous , and sad day for us all , Mr. Hardinge excepted ...
Pàgina 57
... morning . In this very justifiable expectation I fell asleep . Neb did not call me until ten o'clock . I afterwards discovered that Rupert kept the helm for only an hour , and then , calculating that from five until nine were four hours ...
... morning . In this very justifiable expectation I fell asleep . Neb did not call me until ten o'clock . I afterwards discovered that Rupert kept the helm for only an hour , and then , calculating that from five until nine were four hours ...
Pàgina 62
... morning ; taking care , however , not to let our lodgings be known . The next day , I own I thought but little of the girls , Clawbonny , or Mr. Hardinge . Neb was at my bed - side before I was up , and re- ported the Grace and Lucy ...
... morning ; taking care , however , not to let our lodgings be known . The next day , I own I thought but little of the girls , Clawbonny , or Mr. Hardinge . Neb was at my bed - side before I was up , and re- ported the Grace and Lucy ...
Pàgina 67
... . As we sat at the table , even , it was agreed that Rupert and I should join the ship , as green hands , the very next morning , signing the arti- MILES WALLINGFORD . 67 anything but sentiment. Feeling, however, he ...
... . As we sat at the table , even , it was agreed that Rupert and I should join the ship , as green hands , the very next morning , signing the arti- MILES WALLINGFORD . 67 anything but sentiment. Feeling, however, he ...
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.