 Will she stay, think ye, under this sail ?" said the low voice of the stranger. " She will do all that man in reason can ask of wood and iron," returned the lieutenant ; " but the vessel don't float the ocean that will tack under double-reefed topsails...  Cooper's Works: The pilot - Page 58by James Fenimore Cooper - 1859Full view - About this book
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American literature - 1823 - 306 pages
...the lieutenant ; " but the Vessel don't float the ocean that will tack under double-reefed topsails alone, against a heavy sea. Help her with the courses, pilot, and you'll see her come round like a dancing-master.'' " Let us feel the strength of the gale first," returned... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Sea stories, American - 1824 - 574 pages
...returned the lieutenant; "but the vessel don't float the ocean that will tack under double-reefed topsails alone, against a heavy sea. Help her with the courses,...stood in silence, looking ahead of the ship, with an air of singular coolness and abstraction. AH the lanterns had been extinguished on the deck of the... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1824 - 924 pages
...the lieutenant ; " but the vessel don't float the ocean that will tack under doublereefed topsails alone, against a heavy sea. Help her with the courses, pilot, and you'll see her come round like a dancingmaster." " Let us feel the strength of the gale first," returned... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...the lieutenant ; " but the vessel don't float the ocean that will tack under double-reefed topsails alone, against a heavy sea. Help her with the courses, pilot, and you'll see her come round like a dancing-master." " Let us feel the strength of the gale first," returned... | |
 | Novelist - 1839 - 570 pages
..." but the vessel don't float the ocean that will tack under double-reeled topsails alone, agains « heavy sea. Help her with the courses, pilot, and you...stood in silence, looking ahead of the ship, with an air of singular coolness am abstraction. All the lanterns had been extinguished on the deck of the... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...returned the lieutenant; "but the vessel don't float the ocean that will tack under double-reefed topsails alone against a heavy sea. Help her with the courses, pilot, and you 11 see her come round like a dancing master." "Let us feel the strength of the gale first," returned... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1853 - 498 pages
...the lieutenant; " but the vessel don't float the ocean that will tack under double-reefed topsails alone, against a heavy sea. Help her with the courses,...returned the man who was called Mr. Gray, moving from tlje side of Griffith to the weather gangway of the vessel, where he stood in silence, looking ahead... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...lieute19* nant; „but the vessel don't float the ocean that will tack under double-reefed topsails alone against a heavy sea. Help her with the courses, pilot, and you '11 see her come round like a dancing-master." „Let us feel the strength of the gale first," returned... | |
 | American prose literature - 1855 - 506 pages
...under double-reefed topsails alone, against a heavy sea. Help her with the courses, pilot, acd you'll see her come round like a dancing-master." " Let us...stood in silence, looking ahead of the ship, with an air of singular coolness and abstraction. All the lanterns had been extinguished on the deck of... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...under double-reefed topsails alone against a heavy sri. Help her with the courses, pilot, and you'll see her come round like a dancing-master." " Let us...first." returned the man who was called Mr. Gray, moving fjom the side of Griffith to the weather gang-way of the vessel, where he stood in silence, looking... | |
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