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... sail faster than the clouds above , seeming to care little which way the wind blows , and that no one is a jot safer from her speed than her honesty . According to all that I have heard , she is something such a craft as yonder slaver ...
... sail faster than the clouds above , seeming to care little which way the wind blows , and that no one is a jot safer from her speed than her honesty . According to all that I have heard , she is something such a craft as yonder slaver ...
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... sail on a ship , when there was the likelihood of the wind taking her aback . " To this bold vindication of an opinion which all present deemed to be so audacious , there succeeded a general and loud murmur . Encouraged by this evidence ...
... sail on a ship , when there was the likelihood of the wind taking her aback . " To this bold vindication of an opinion which all present deemed to be so audacious , there succeeded a general and loud murmur . Encouraged by this evidence ...
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... sails , " retorted Dick . " Give her the stay - sails , if you will , and no harm done ; but a true seaman will never ... sail would you heave - to a ship on the coast of your native country , with the danger of a white - squall at hand ...
... sails , " retorted Dick . " Give her the stay - sails , if you will , and no harm done ; but a true seaman will never ... sail would you heave - to a ship on the coast of your native country , with the danger of a white - squall at hand ...
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... sail coming large upon us- " " " Hist ! they are stirring on her decks ! ” " To be sure they are . The cook is splitting a log ; the captain has most likely sung out for his night - cap . ” The voice of Fid was lost in a summons from ...
... sail coming large upon us- " " " Hist ! they are stirring on her decks ! ” " To be sure they are . The cook is splitting a log ; the captain has most likely sung out for his night - cap . ” The voice of Fid was lost in a summons from ...
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... sail . " " You seem to have a summary method of hoisting them in , " returned Wilder . “ Ah ! you speak of the fellow on the whip ? Your eyes are good , friend , to tell a jack - knife from a marling - spike , at this distance . But the ...
... sail . " " You seem to have a summary method of hoisting them in , " returned Wilder . “ Ah ! you speak of the fellow on the whip ? Your eyes are good , friend , to tell a jack - knife from a marling - spike , at this distance . But the ...
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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.