... 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 Full view -
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