... 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... The Red Rover: A Tale - Page 234by James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 522 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Fenimore Cooper - American literature - 1855 - 570 pages
...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...was, to say the least, something out of the common orderj!" it was remarkable !" returned Wilder, with an air so vacant, as to prove that he rather communed... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1859 - 540 pages
...saw a ship standing for an nour across our fore-foot, and yet, though we set the azimuth, mt a degree did he budge, starboard or larboard, during all that...with himself than attended to his companion. " There arc mariners who say that the Flying Dutchman cruises off that Cape, and that he often gets on the... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - American fiction - 1892 - 726 pages
...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...was remarkable ! " returned Wilder, with an air so vacantSas to prove that he rather communed with himself than attended to his companion. "There are... | |
| Mackenzie Bell - American fiction - 1927 - 486 pages
...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...cruises off that Cape, and that he often gets on the weather-side of a stranger, and bears down upon him, like a ship about to lay him aboard. Many is the... | |
| Mackenzie Bell - American fiction - 1927 - 528 pages
...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...communed with himself than attended to his companion. up, and batteries lighted ; but then this can't be any such craft as the Dutchman since she is, at... | |
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