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... vessel was got through , by the blessing of Heaven , in safety . We had all reason to rejoice that the prayers of the congregation were asked before we departed from the peace and security of our own homes ! " " You journeyed round the ...
... vessel was got through , by the blessing of Heaven , in safety . We had all reason to rejoice that the prayers of the congregation were asked before we departed from the peace and security of our own homes ! " " You journeyed round the ...
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... vessel at all ? ” " Opinions differ . Some say , yes ; some say , no . But I am well acquainted with a man who travelled a week in company with a mariner , who passed within a hundred fathoms of her , in a gale of wind . Lucky it was ...
... vessel at all ? ” " Opinions differ . Some say , yes ; some say , no . But I am well acquainted with a man who travelled a week in company with a mariner , who passed within a hundred fathoms of her , in a gale of wind . Lucky it was ...
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... vessel , that he might know her , if chance or Providence should ever happen to throw her again into his way . She was a long black ship , lying low in the water , like a snake in the grass , with a desperate wicked look , and ...
... vessel , that he might know her , if chance or Providence should ever happen to throw her again into his way . She was a long black ship , lying low in the water , like a snake in the grass , with a desperate wicked look , and ...
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... vessel want to get to sea in a hurry , how you t'ink he get her far enough up to lay through the weather reach ? Ha ! you answer me dat ; you great scholar , Misser Dick , but you never see ship go in wind's teeth , or hear a monkey ...
... vessel want to get to sea in a hurry , how you t'ink he get her far enough up to lay through the weather reach ? Ha ! you answer me dat ; you great scholar , Misser Dick , but you never see ship go in wind's teeth , or hear a monkey ...
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... vessel , while he still continued to cast his pebbles into the air . " S'pose he jam he helm hard a - port , Misser Harry , and take a tide on he larboard bow , what you t'ink make him kick and gallop about ! Golly ! I like to see Dick ...
... vessel , while he still continued to cast his pebbles into the air . " S'pose he jam he helm hard a - port , Misser Harry , and take a tide on he larboard bow , what you t'ink make him kick and gallop about ! Golly ! I like to see Dick ...
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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.