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...of the straits the brig floated tranquil and upright as if bolted solidly, keel to keel, with its own image reflected in the unframed and immense mirr... ... upright where she floated, shak- ing with tremendous jerks from trucks to keel; while high up in the night the invisible canvas was heard rattling an... ...dsmen announced that there were no more than three feet of water under her keel; and when standing toward the steep inner edge of the long reef, where... ... his arm, and the boat going off before the wind went on faster on an even keel. A motionless black bank resting on the sea stretched infinitely right... ...ords: “Bitterness, resentment,” and a moment afterward became aware of the keel of the boat running up on the sand. But she didn’t move, and d’Alcacer...

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...lean pine shingle that lay in the moonlight, took a little fragment of “red keel” out of his pocket, got the moon on his work, and painfully scrawle... ...t by the fire and painfully wrote something upon each of these with his “red keel”; one he rolled up and put in his jacket pocket, and the other he p... ...it all day. But I bet you Jeff Thatcher couldn’t.” “Jeff Thatcher! Why, he’d keel over just with two draws. Just let him try it once. He’d see!” “I b...

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... the shrill salt, and sheer’d the gale. The broad seas swell’d to meet the keel, And swept behind: so quick the run, We felt the good ship shake and...

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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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... journey might be of the stateliest: but Sigurd himself steered the dragon-keel which was the greatest and noblest; richly wrought were their sails, a... ...te. Then away they rowed, so hard and fast, that well-nigh the half of the keel slipped away from the ship, and so hard they laid on to the oars that ...

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... width, is twenty three feet, and her length a little over ninety feet. A lead keel of fabulous but unknown weight makes her very stable, while she ca... ...ost blanketed it. The spritsail flapped emptily and the boat righted to an even keel, Chapter XIX 121 causing the two men swiftly to change position. ... ...d and I were astounded. A moment later he had dived under the boat, seized the keel in his mouth, and was shaking the boat violently. “My!” said Maud....

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...ery, by some surprising process of condensation, worked between it and the keel: the whole forming a warm sandwich, about three feet thick. It rained ... ...ir shape at all calculated to remind one of a boat’s head, stem, sides, or keel. Except that they are in the water, and display a couple of paddle box... ...eemed more than enough American Notes – Dickens 197 to beat in her frail keel, as though it had been pie crust. Looking down upon the filthy river ...

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...n,’ answered Riderhood. ‘Not so easy done. His luck’s got fouled under the keels of the barges. I tried to haul in last time, but I couldn’t. See how ...

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...er’d rocks and congregated sands— Traitors ensteep’d to clog the guiltless keel,— As having sense of beauty, do omit Their mortal natures, letting go ...

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...ace, As guest who would be gone. And thus, without a wing, Or service of a keel, Our summer made her light escape Into the beautiful. 108 ...

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...It stuck to the premises of Gruff and Tackleton, like a barnacle to a ship’s keel, or a snail to a door, or a little The Cricket on the Hearth Char...

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...ly recovering from the periodic roll to leeward was just regaining an even keel, when the last signal, a preconcerted dumb one, was given. At the same...

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...s one degree more important than the Colonel. He is a High Priest and the “Keel Row” is his holy song. The “Keel Row” is the Cavalry T rot; and the ma...

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... sea, And the swift boat the little waves which bore, Were cut by its keen keel, though slantingly; Soon I could hear the leaves sigh, and could see T... ...by the musical air Along the waves which sung and sparkled under Its rapid keel—a winged shape sate there, A child with silver-shining wings, so fair,... ...lating, on earth’s verge the sunken meteor gleams. 22. 22. 22. 22. 22. Its keel has struck the sands beside our feet;— Then Cythna turned to me, and f... ... feel _415 The swift and steady motion of the keel. 47. 47. 47. 47. 47. Or, when the weary moon was in the wane, Or in th... ...ere is a path on the sea’s azure floor, _410 No keel has ever ploughed that path before; The halcyons brood around the foam...

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...She came churning along, now, making a deal of noise of one kind or another, and aggravating it every now and then by blowing a hoarse whistle. She ha... ...be done; but I saw it done, and there- fore I know that there is one impossible thing which CAN be done. What miracle will man attempt next? We met ma... ...d thus has given employment to a great many men and animals; but now that this steamboat is able, with a small crew and a bushel or so of coal, to tak...

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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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... sight of the Spanish coast. She had been specially chosen for her shallow keel and light mastage, so that she might lie at anchor in safety half a le...

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...streak? Don’t you know that the garboard streak is the last plank next the keel? Y ou mean counter, not garboard streak. That regularly graveled me, t...

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... Smoking flesh the thresher washed down fast, Like an angry sea Ships from keel to mast. IV Name us glory, singer, name us pride Matching Harald’s in ... ...prow, Though Folly froth round, hiss and hoot, Leaves legible print at the keel. Nor least is the service she does, That service to her may cleanse Th...

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...has a last dip and slide in its character, has Calais, to be especially commanded to the infernal gods. Thrice accursed be that garrison-town, when it... ... Achilles, iron armour-plated ship. T welve hundred men are working at her now; twelve hundred men working on stages over her sides, over her bows, ov...