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... hand of the indicator on the wall pulsed from mark to mark . Eight pulse - beats timed one half - revolution of the Light ; neither more nor less . Fenwick checked the first few revolutions carefully ; he opened the engine's feed - pipe ...
... hand of the indicator on the wall pulsed from mark to mark . Eight pulse - beats timed one half - revolution of the Light ; neither more nor less . Fenwick checked the first few revolutions carefully ; he opened the engine's feed - pipe ...
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... hand . And that subject was wrecks and voyages , and old - time trading , and ships cast away in desolate seas , steamers we both had known , their merits and de- merits , lading , Lloyd's , and , above all , Lights . The talk always ...
... hand . And that subject was wrecks and voyages , and old - time trading , and ships cast away in desolate seas , steamers we both had known , their merits and de- merits , lading , Lloyd's , and , above all , Lights . The talk always ...
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... hands . At last he took it into his pore sick head that the ships , and particularly the steamers that came by , there wasn't many of them , -made the streaks , instead of the tides as was natural . He used to sit , he told me , cursing ...
... hands . At last he took it into his pore sick head that the ships , and particularly the steamers that came by , there wasn't many of them , -made the streaks , instead of the tides as was natural . He used to sit , he told me , cursing ...
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... hands together . He dropped astern in five minutes , and I suppose he went back to the Wurlee Light . You can't drown an Orange - Lord , not even in Flores Strait on flood - tide . " Dowse come across me when he came to England with the ...
... hands together . He dropped astern in five minutes , and I suppose he went back to the Wurlee Light . You can't drown an Orange - Lord , not even in Flores Strait on flood - tide . " Dowse come across me when he came to England with the ...
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... hand- somely , sent up the same staircase within the same hour The Infant , fresh from Upper Burma , and he and Boi- leau looking out of my window saw walking in the street one Nevin , late in a Gurkha regiment which had been through ...
... hand- somely , sent up the same staircase within the same hour The Infant , fresh from Upper Burma , and he and Boi- leau looking out of my window saw walking in the street one Nevin , late in a Gurkha regiment which had been through ...
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