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... in your hands, press it to your face.” I saw ships and listened to their keels...sailors unloading bales...wasn’t that a remnant on the water? P ... ... On our trip we visited Madeira Island, disembarking at noon, the cambers keeling us into warm, shallow water, the weather perfect. I had a carcanet ... ... and re-pass, dark blue, grey, orange, fins fluted like fans close to our keel. Streamers of kelp and seaweed tangled crab and shark and I fell asle... ...ng of our statehood. A triple goal! Saturday I used to wash in an iron keeler, scrubbing hard after plowing or splitting rails. Saturday was scru...

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... in your hands, press it to your face.” I saw ships and listened to their keels...sailors unloading bales...wasn’t that a remnant on the water? P ...

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...hip has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;                     But O heart! heart! heart!                          O the bleeding drops of red,                               Where on the deck my Captain lies,                      ...

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...rk bounded by a small forest. In a creek lay a little sloop, with a narrow keel and high masts, bearing on its flag the Monte Cristo arms which were a...

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...f the Sagas of old Icelandic history we have an account of these, in which the keel is represented to have been one hundred and forty feet long, the m... ... to history, and were as follows: Length, 420 feet; breadth, 57 feet; and from keel to highest point of poop-deck, 72 feet. This immense vessel was pr... ...restricted in dimensions to 300 feet in length, 40 feet beam, and 60 feet from keel to top-deck, greatly exceeded the former in bewildering magnificen...

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...h he found himself was the “Bertha Millner.” She was a two-topmast, 28-ton keel schooner, 40 feet long, carrying a large spread of sail— mainsail, for... ...was wrong with her. It was not that she failed to ride the waves with even keel, it was not that her rig- ging was in disarray, nor that her sails wer... ...the top hamper carried away with a crash, eased back a moment upon an even keel. But her cargo had shifted. The bark was doomed. Through the 41 Frank... ...t with the water, and in another second rolled bottom up. For a moment her keel and red iron bottom were visible through the mist of driving spoon-dri... ...ut to the west, the Pacific appeared as empty of life as the land. Never a keel cut those waters, never a sail broke the edge of the horizon, never a ... ...nt quivering ran through the “Bertha Millner” from stem to stern, and from keel to masthead. There was a barely audible creaking of joints and panels.... ... eyes blazing. “This thing is—” The “Bertha” came suddenly down to an easy keel, rocking in that glassy sea as if in a tide rip. The deck was awash wi... ...ed away, the ripples faded into the ocean, and the schooner settled to her keel, quite motionless. “Look,” said Moran, her face toward the “Bertha’s” ... ...le. Then 55 Frank Norris with a sudden drop the “Bertha” fell back to her keel again, the spilled oil spouting from her scuppers, the masts rock- ing...

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...s crept again on board their ship, as it now lay, and as it still remains, keel to the waves, a monument of the sea’s potency. In still weather, under... ...a, and skirted south-eastward along the front of the shore reef, which her keel was at times al- most touching. Hitherto she had brought disaster to h...

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...d Dan, as they straddled the thin part. ‘She’s going down to Rye to make a keel for a Lowestoft fishin’-boat, I’ve heard. Hold tight!’ Cattiwow cracke...

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...sixty-five! “A glittering wilderness of time That to the sunset reaches No keel as yet its waves has ploughed Or gritted on its beaches. “And we will ...

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...ade answer playing on him And saying, ‘Son, I have seen the good ship sail Keel upward, and mast downward, in the heavens, And solid turrets topsy-tur...

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...as, famous pirates, Make the sea serve them, which they ear and wound With keels of every kind: many hot inroads They make in Italy; the borders mari...

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...sings the staring owl, Tu whit; Tu who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the p... ...sings the staring owl, Tu whit; Tu who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO : The words of Mercury are harsh aft...

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...he provinces; Yea, stranger engines for the brunt of war, Than was the fiery keel at Antwerp bridge, I’ll make my servile spirits to invent. Ente...

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...des, cleaving the foam-cover’d flood! Long is the track plough’d up by the keel where dolphins are sporting, Following fast in its rear, while it seem... ...then hasten, thou ship, with every favouring zephyr! Onward, thou powerful keel, cleaving the waves as they foam! Bring me unto the foreign harbour, s...

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...ning in the back part of the room, and three rays, emitted from its silver keel, trembled on the lofty wainscots, which were painted red with black ba... ... kept time as they beat the water; every now and then the extremity of the keel, which was shaped like a plough-share, would ap- 91 Flaubert pear, an... ...lter on the land, leaning over on their sides or standing upright on their keels, with lofty poops and swelling prows, and covered with gildings and m...

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... after a fly or a worm. The dorsal fin, besides answering the purpose of a keel, with the anal, serves to keep the fish upright, for in shallow water,... ...u steterant in montibus altis, Fluctibus ignotis insultavere carinae; “and keels which had long stood on high mountains careered insultingly (insultav... ...from the mountains that evening, and so perfectly balanced that it had not keeled at all, and no water had run in at the tap which had been taken out ... ...ried over the mountains piece meal on the backs of mules and lamas, whose keel shall plough its waves, and bear me to the Indies. Day would not dawn ... ...ng, our boat was grating against the bulrushes of its native port, and its keel recognized the Con cord mud, where some semblance of its outline was ...

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...ge of festal cheer. Boon winter bids them, and unbinds their cares, As laden keels, when now the port they touch, And happy sailors crown the sterns w... ... goes A murmur multitudinous. By this Scarce can the billow spare the curved keels, When swift the sea gulls from the middle main Come winging, and th... ...rmers shave their wheel spokes, hence Drums for their wains, and curved boat keels fit; Willows bear twigs enow, the elm tree leaves, Myrtle stout spe...

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... made use of eleven hundred hides of brown cows, shapen like the tail of a keeling. For his coat were taken up eighteen hundred ells of blue velvet, d... ...ugh, but round straight cannioned gregs, having in the seat a piece like a keeling’s tail, and therefore in French called, de chausses a queue de merl... ... ar- rival; but when they do approach near to haven, and come to wet their keels within their harbour, then both with words and gestures we salute the... ... away , the masts are sprung, the maintop-masthead dives into the sea; the keel is up to the sun; our shrouds are almost all broke, and blown away. Al... ...imension of its beams, as if they had been the ribs and chain-wales of the keel; which was a pleasant sight. The physeter then giving up the ghost, tu... ...he hold of the stom- ach might be so well ballasted and freighted from the keel to the main hatch, with stores well stowed, that our human vessels mig...

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...er, as the frail bark which was swallowed up rubbed for a moment along the keel of her destroyer—but this was all. Thinking our boat (which it will be... ...brought the starboard side of the vessel out of water nearly as far as her keel, when the cause of his anxiety was rendered obvious enough. The body o... ...ard within a couple of feet of the water, this not being very far from the keel, as we were nearly upon our beam-ends. To these spikes we now lashed o... ... about twenty yards from the hulk, as near as I could judge. She was lying keel up, rocking furiously from side to side, and the sea in all directions... ...who, now, to my great joy, made his appearance (having scrambled up to the keel from 101 V olume Three the opposite side of the hull), and threw me t... ...the whole bottom, from within two or three feet of the bends as far as the keel, together with the keel itself, thickly covered with large barnacles, ...

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...lty in doing ; for the smack flew round steadily enough, and upon an even keel—only swaying to and fro, with the im- mense sweeps and swelters of the... ...smack hung on the inclined surface of the pool. She was quite upon an even keel—that is to say, her deck lay in a plane parallel with that of the wate... ...netrable walls of foliage, a roof of ultra- marine satin, and no floor—the keel balancing itself with ad- mirable nicety on that of a phantom bark whi...

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..., And will not slacken in the gale, is like To sail with thwarts reversed, keel uppermost. Relent then and repent thee of thy wrath; For, if one young...

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... or worthy, in Norway or Denmark, who had not made some voyages in a “long keel,” as a ship was called, and fought bravely, and brought home gold cups...

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...ˆ atard just perceptibly wriggled his lone ear up to catch the sound. “Ah say ‘keel.”’ Bˆ atard growled deep down in his throat, the hair bristled alo... ...refully to maintain his equilibrium. “Bˆ atard,” he said calmly, “look out. Ah keel you.” Bˆ atard snarled at the word, and shook the box with greater...

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...d been put upon the stocks when he was a boy, and he had helped to lay her keel nwho has come to his growth, and can hardly acquire more of natural lo...

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...ds fierce Neptune’s wrath, for many an hour, And yields not up her bruised keel to winds, In whose stern blast no ruth nor grace she finds: XCIX Argan...

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...at racing. We have been treated to the spec- tacle of what are practically keeled racing-planes driven a clear five foot or more above the water, and ... ... the long-unheeded demand of the true sportsman for “no daylight under mid-keel in smooth water” is in a fair way to be conceded. The new rule severel... ... IVEMONA, 50 knt., 35 ft., 300 Hargreaves (Radium accel- erator), Miller keel and rudder. The above are well known on the South Coast as sound, whol... ...ter for- ward, and treble reinforced forefoot and entry. Talfourd rockered keel: Triple set of Hofman vans, giving maximum lifting surface of 5327 sq.... ...nd public installations. Detachable under-cars, aluminum or stamped steel. Keeled under-cars for planes: single-action detaching-gear, turning car int... ...urbash—on the feet. A kourbash is a strip of old hippo-hide with a sort of keel on it, like the cutting edge of a boar’s tusk. But we use the rounded ...

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...d forth to fare; and far from thence the great hearted guest would guide his keel. Bade then the hardy one Hrunting be brought to the son of Ecglaf, t... ...e he was better esteemed, that blade possessing, heirloom old. — Their ocean keel boarding, they drove through the deep, and Daneland left. Beowulf 51... ... her course. The craft sped on, foam necked it floated forth o’er the waves, keel firm bound over briny currents, till they got them sight of the Geat... ...n wanderers oft may hail Beowulf’s Barrow, as back from far they drive their keels o’er the darkling wave.” From his neck he unclasped the collar of g...

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... the ship by wind and oar Was brought: they saw the long strand fringed with keels Of Argives, who endured sore travail of war Even then about the wal... ...hard crushed the stubborn rollers groan, As, sliding with weird shrieks, the keel descends Into the sea surge; so that host with toil Dragged up unto ... ... glowed. Swiftly to Hellespont’s shore they came, and there Beached they the keels again, and deftly dealt Quintus Smyrnaeus The Fall of Troy 178 ... ...oy 194 Yearning for home. With laughter ‘gan they hale Down to the sea the keels: but lo, their haste Was reined in by Achilles’ mighty son: He asse... ...ft ship to Hellespont’s far side. Then down to the sea in haste they ran the keels: Their wealth they laid aboard, even all the spoil Taken, or ever u... ... Misery encompassed all; For some with heavily plunging prows drave on, With keels upturned some drifted. Here were masts Snapped from the hull by ru...

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...The Aeneid Virgil 126 And vomits out a tardy flame by fits. Down to the keels, and upward to the sails, The fire descends, or mounts, but still pre... ...“Here ply your oars, and at all hazard land: Force on the vessel, that her keel may wound This hated soil, and furrow hostile ground. Let me securely ...

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...e rooks, despite their outstretched wings, were laid, as it were, on their keels by the wind. Finally, the leather apron which covered us began to flu...

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...le. We know exactly the angle which the sail of a ship is to make with the keel in order to its sailing better; and yet Columbus discovered America wi...

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...s a narrow grass plot toward the shed, where there was a disabled boat lying keel upward. Madame Antoine had not gone to mass. Her son Tonie had, but ... ...ert was out there under the shed, reclining in the shade against the sloping keel of the overturned boat. He was reading from a book. Tonie was no lon...

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... men, who were perhaps, as a class, our most efficient soldiers (Frederick Keeling, for example), were not duped for a moment by the hypocritical melo... ...that. MRS HUSHABYE. Yes, dear; but that was for the ship with the magnetic keel that sucked up submarines. Living at the rate we do, you cannot afford...

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...h as there are no wharves, we are usually kept anchored by a small kedge, or keelek, just outside, of the surf. We all provided ourselves with thick S... ...s been moved in the hold, from stem to stern, and from the waterways to the keelson.’’ I went up to the house to supper. We had frijoles, (the ... ...ls. Some also have an effigy of Judas, which the crew amuse themselves with keel hauling and hanging by the neck from the yard arms. - 66 - Two Year... ...ng in petticoats! As for your wife, you’ll never see her again; she was ’up keeleg and off’ before you were outside of Cape Cod. You hove your money ... ...owing the hides, as I have said, the ballast is levelled off, just above the keelson, and then loose dunnage placed upon it, on which the hides rest. ... ...e water, and she seemed actually to jump from sea to sea. From the time her keel was laid, she had never been so driven; and had it been life or deat... ...leaped over the seas, and almost out of the water, and trembled to her very keel, the spars and masts snapping and creaking,—‘‘There she goes!—Ther...

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...carry it. A small matter if the rough wave foameth and angrily resisteth its keel! It is not the river that is your danger and the end of your good an...

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...ds fierce Neptune’s wrath, for many an hour, And yields not up her bruised keel to winds, In whose stern blast no ruth nor grace she finds: XCIX Argan...

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... novel transferred to the no less unfortunate lover. CHAPTER I By Cauk and keel to win your bread, Wi’ whigmaleeries for them wha need, Whilk is a gen...

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...f his imagination in boyhood. The echoes of the great hammer where roof or keel were a making, the signal shouts of the workmen, the roar of the furna...

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...f his imagination in boyhood. The echoes of the great hammer where roof or keel were a-making, the signal- shouts of the workmen, the roar of the furn...