Afloat and Ashore; Or the Adventures of Miles WallingfordThe Author, 1844 - 282 pàgines |
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Pàgina 6
... ready mentioned ; while the six thousand pounds currency that were " at use , " went to my two aunts , who were thought to be well married , to men in their own class of life , in adjacent coun- ties . My father never went to sea after ...
... ready mentioned ; while the six thousand pounds currency that were " at use , " went to my two aunts , who were thought to be well married , to men in their own class of life , in adjacent coun- ties . My father never went to sea after ...
Pàgina 29
... ready . If I ever was to make a sailor , no time was to be lost ; for all with whom he had conversed assured him the period of life when such things were best learned , was between sixteen and twenty . This I thought probable enough ...
... ready . If I ever was to make a sailor , no time was to be lost ; for all with whom he had conversed assured him the period of life when such things were best learned , was between sixteen and twenty . This I thought probable enough ...
Pàgina 47
... ready , our bags well lined , being concealed in the store- house at the landing . Of this building I could at any moment procure the key , my authority as heir - apparent being very considerable , already , on the farm . As for Neb ...
... ready , our bags well lined , being concealed in the store- house at the landing . Of this building I could at any moment procure the key , my authority as heir - apparent being very considerable , already , on the farm . As for Neb ...
Pàgina 53
... ready . In that day , indeed , it was so much a matter of course for the skipper of a Hud- son River craft to steer , that most of the peo- ple who lived on the banks of the stream ima- gined that Sir John Jervis , Lord Anson , and the ...
... ready . In that day , indeed , it was so much a matter of course for the skipper of a Hud- son River craft to steer , that most of the peo- ple who lived on the banks of the stream ima- gined that Sir John Jervis , Lord Anson , and the ...
Pàgina 62
... ready to wait on me in my progress in quest of a ship . As this was the moment of action , little was said , but we all breakfasted , and sallied forth in good earnest , on the important business before us . Neb was permitted to follow ...
... ready to wait on me in my progress in quest of a ship . As this was the moment of action , little was said , but we all breakfasted , and sallied forth in good earnest , on the important business before us . Neb was permitted to follow ...
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.