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" ... above a dying beast ; flung like a lasso ; gathered anew as a riata is coiled at the saddle-bow ; dealt out card-fashion over fifty miles of green table ; picked up, shuffled, and redealt as the game changed. I had seen cruisers flown like hawks,... "
A Fleet in Being: Notes of Two Trips with the Channel Squadron - Page 19
by Rudyard Kipling - 1914 - 84 pages
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Rudyard Kipling: An Attempt at Appreciation

G. F. Monkshood - Literary Criticism - 1899 - 282 pages
...changed. I had seen cruisers flown like hawks, ridden like horses at a close finish, and manoeuvred like bicycles ; but the wonder of their appearance and disappearance never failed." In "A Fleet in Being" the reader is much impressed by the vividness with which things are seen, the...
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Rudyard Kipling, the Man and His Work: An Attempt at Appreciation

G. F. Monkshood, George Gamble - Authors, English - 1902 - 308 pages
...changed. I had seen cruisers flown like hawks, ridden like horses at a close finish, and manoeuvred like bicycles ; but the wonder of their appearance and disappearance never failed." In " A Fleet in Being " the reader is much impressed by the vividness with which things are seen, the...
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