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... favour . This difficulty was fully felt when this book was originally written , and probably has as much force to - day as it had then , though nearly a quarter of a century has intervened . The history of this country has very little ...
... favour . This difficulty was fully felt when this book was originally written , and probably has as much force to - day as it had then , though nearly a quarter of a century has intervened . The history of this country has very little ...
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... favour of the king . These are our watchwords . " " Adieu , honourable gentleman , " said his companion , making a reverence nearly to the earth , as the other slightly touched his hat in passing . " Adieu , Sir Hector , " returned the ...
... favour of the king . These are our watchwords . " " Adieu , honourable gentleman , " said his companion , making a reverence nearly to the earth , as the other slightly touched his hat in passing . " Adieu , Sir Hector , " returned the ...
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... favoured of the innkeepers , he suffered his steps to be oddly enough arrested by the one whose house was the usual haunt of the hangers - on of the port . On entering the bar - room of this tavern , as it was called , but which in ...
... favoured of the innkeepers , he suffered his steps to be oddly enough arrested by the one whose house was the usual haunt of the hangers - on of the port . On entering the bar - room of this tavern , as it was called , but which in ...
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... audience who surrounded him , " you see that reason is like a ship bearing down with studding - sails on both sides , leaving a straight wake and no favours . Now , I scorn boasting , nor do I know who the fellow THE RED ROVER . 3 55.
... audience who surrounded him , " you see that reason is like a ship bearing down with studding - sails on both sides , leaving a straight wake and no favours . Now , I scorn boasting , nor do I know who the fellow THE RED ROVER . 3 55.
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... favour of scudding . " He pronounced the latter word with an emphasis which ren- dered it questionable if he did not mean to pun ; the more es- pecially as he threw down his reckoning , and instantly left the field to the quiet ...
... favour of scudding . " He pronounced the latter word with an emphasis which ren- dered it questionable if he did not mean to pun ; the more es- pecially as he threw down his reckoning , and instantly left the field to the quiet ...
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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.