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Page 64
... Wyllys will lend her aid , " returned the aunt , smiling and bowing to the third female , with that mixture of suavity and form which was peculiar to the stately manners of the time , and which was rarely neglected when a superior ...
... Wyllys will lend her aid , " returned the aunt , smiling and bowing to the third female , with that mixture of suavity and form which was peculiar to the stately manners of the time , and which was rarely neglected when a superior ...
Page 65
... Wyllys bowed her head , in acknowledgment of the truth of the opinion , and in testimony of the renown of the deceased admiral ; but did not think it necessary to make any reply .. Instead of allowing the subject to occupy her mind any ...
... Wyllys bowed her head , in acknowledgment of the truth of the opinion , and in testimony of the renown of the deceased admiral ; but did not think it necessary to make any reply .. Instead of allowing the subject to occupy her mind any ...
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... Wyllys , for the next month ! " " I hope your dislike to the sea has magnified the time , " mildly returned her governess ; " the passage between this place and Carolina has often been made in a much shorter period . ” " That it has ...
... Wyllys , for the next month ! " " I hope your dislike to the sea has magnified the time , " mildly returned her governess ; " the passage between this place and Carolina has often been made in a much shorter period . ” " That it has ...
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... Wyllys , as the consort and relict of a flag - officer , it was not seemly that I should be ignorant of naval science . I believe there are few ladies in the British empire who are more familiar with ships , either singly or in squadron ...
... Wyllys , as the consort and relict of a flag - officer , it was not seemly that I should be ignorant of naval science . I believe there are few ladies in the British empire who are more familiar with ships , either singly or in squadron ...
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... Wyllys , if I make myself intelli- gible to you , but to my instructed eye , this charming description conveys a ... Wyllys . " Mill ! my dear Mrs. Wyllys , will you persist in calling this picturesque ruin a mill ? " " However fatal it ...
... Wyllys , if I make myself intelli- gible to you , but to my instructed eye , this charming description conveys a ... Wyllys . " Mill ! my dear Mrs. Wyllys , will you persist in calling this picturesque ruin a mill ? " " However fatal it ...
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adventurer answered appeared believe Bignall boat boatswain Bob Bunt bows breeze cabin calm canvass captain cast character commander companion continued countenance crew cruiser danger deck demanded Dolphin ears exclaimed favour feel flag followed gaze Gertrude give glance governess Guinea guns hand head heard Heaven honest honour hope hour humour instant interrupted Joram knew Knighthead Lacey lady land light sails look madam manner mariner Master Harry masts mate matter mind minute Mister Robert never Newport night ocean officer passed pinnace province of Carolina quarter-deck racter Red Rover reply returned rigging Roderick Rover Royal Caroline sail seaman seemed seen ship skiff slaver smile sound spars speak stood stranger taffrail tailor thing thought topman turned vessel voice voice of Wilder Wilder wind words Wyllys yard yonder young youth
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Page 429 - Out of my grief and my impatience, Answer'd neglectingly I know not what, He should, or he should not; for he made me mad, To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet...
Page 234 - ... 46," continued the other, " and saw a vessel lying, as it might be, here on our weatherbow — which is just opposite to this fellow, since he is on our lee-quarter — but there I saw a ship standing for an hour across our fore-foot, and yet, though we set the azimuth, not a degree did he budge, starboard or larboard, during all that time, which, as it was heavy weather, was, to say the least, something out of the common order.
Page 261 - At this appalling moment, a candle would have sent its flame perpendicularly towards the heavens. The ship, missing the steadying power of the wind, rolled heavily in the troughs of the seas, which began to lessen at each instant, as if the startled element was recalling into the security of its own vast bosom that portion of its particles which had so lately been permitted to gambol madly over its surface. The water washed sullenly along the side of the ship, or, as she...
Page 265 - ... Earing by the arm, as the latter rushed madly up the steep of the deck ; ' it is our duty to be calm : bring hither an axe.' " Quick as the thought which gave the order, the admonished mate complied, jumping into the miz'zen^channels of the ship, to execute, with his own hands, the mandate that he well knew must follow.
Page 267 - What would you do, Captain Wilder?" interrupted the mate, laying his hand on the shoulder of his commander, who had already thrown his sea-cap on the deck, and was preparing to divest himself of some of his outer garments. " I go aloft to ease the mast of that topsail, without which we lose the spar, and possibly the ship.