Jacob Faithful, Volume 2E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1834 - Picaresque literature, English |
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... lighter , a lighter figure and a lighter step never pressed a plank ; but as far as I can tax my recollection , she was always a fat , unwieldy woman . Locomotion was not to her taste -gin was . She seldom quitted the cabin ; never ...
... lighter , a lighter figure and a lighter step never pressed a plank ; but as far as I can tax my recollection , she was always a fat , unwieldy woman . Locomotion was not to her taste -gin was . She seldom quitted the cabin ; never ...
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... lighter , which might have been compared to another garden of Eden , of which my mother was the Eve , and my father the Adam to consort with , was entered by this serpent who tempted her ; and if she did not eat , she drank , which was ...
... lighter , which might have been compared to another garden of Eden , of which my mother was the Eve , and my father the Adam to consort with , was entered by this serpent who tempted her ; and if she did not eat , she drank , which was ...
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... lighters , barges , vessels , and boats of every description , who were contending with us for the ex- tra foot of water , as we drifted up or down with the tide , affected him not , farther than an extra column or two of smoke rising ...
... lighters , barges , vessels , and boats of every description , who were contending with us for the ex- tra foot of water , as we drifted up or down with the tide , affected him not , farther than an extra column or two of smoke rising ...
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... lighter , looked into the dog - kennel to ascertain if he was asleep with the great mastiff - but Joe was no- where to be found . " Why , what can have become of Joe ? " cried my mother , with maternal alarm in her countenance , ap ...
... lighter , looked into the dog - kennel to ascertain if he was asleep with the great mastiff - but Joe was no- where to be found . " Why , what can have become of Joe ? " cried my mother , with maternal alarm in her countenance , ap ...
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... lighter , unless when the former was called out by the superintendent or proprietor , at the delivery or shipment of a cargo , or was once a month for a few minutes on shore to purchase necessaries . I cannot recall much of my infancy ...
... lighter , unless when the former was called out by the superintendent or proprietor , at the delivery or shipment of a cargo , or was once a month for a few minutes on shore to purchase necessaries . I cannot recall much of my infancy ...
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a'ter amusing anchor appeared barge Barnaby Bracegirdle Bill Short boat bottle Brentford cabin called Captain Turnbull caricature cluck cried deck Domine's Drummond exclaimed the Domine eyes fast father feelings Fleming Gazette give grog half hand head heard heart hour Jacob Faithful Knapps knew laughing legs lighter liquor little Sarah looked Madame Marables master matron mind mond morning mother mouth never Newfoundland dog night nose observed old Tom's overboard pannikin perceived PETER SIMPLE pipe Poll poor pulled Putney Bridge recollect replied old replied old Tom replied the Domine river River Thames round sail scouse ship shore skiff soon staysail suppose Take it coolly tell thee ther there's thing thought tide TOM CRINGLE'S LOG Tomkins Tommy took turned usher Volumes walked watch wharf What's wife Wimbledon Common wind wish yarn young young Tom
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Page 109 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind!
Page 145 - A man's a fool who strives by force or skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will ; For if she will, she will, you may depend on't, And if she won't, she won't — and there's an end on't.
Page 107 - Then are they glad, because they are at rest : and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be.
Page 118 - I didn't want for to live, Poll, when I thought you false.' " "Then Polly might have answered in the words of the old song, master; but her poor heart was too full, I suppose." And Tom sang, "Your Polly has never been false, she declares, Since last time we parted at Wapping Old Stairs.
Page 94 - ... to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, there to be hanged by the neck till you are dead; and may God, in his infinite goodness, have mercy on your soul!
Page 137 - COME O'ER THE SEA. COME o'er the sea, Maiden, with me, Mine thro' sunshine, storm, and snows; Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same, where'er it goes.
Page 122 - And swig the flowing can. And fiddle a little, And foot it a little.
Page 81 - I was in a Greenlandman, my first ship, and pulled ashore to my mother's cottage under the cliff. I thought the old soul would have died with joy.
Page 119 - A long pull, and a strong pull, and a pull all together ! [Cries, and drops his face on arm, upon table.