...from the bay. The vessel we sought lay with her main-topsail aback about a league from the land, and was the only object that broke the broad expanse ... ...beggars, and the like. And here we were again:—years had rolled by, many a league of ocean had been traversed, and we were thrown together under circu... ...itudes of the Pacific is far different from a tempest in the howling North Atlantic. We soon found ourselves battling with the waves, while the be- fo... ...have been our latitude and longi- tude at any particular time, or how many leagues we voy- aged on our passage to T ahiti, are matters about which, I ... ...his eyes. Poor fellow! It was not Hivarhoo. Green Hivarhoo was many a long league off. Tahiti is by far the most famous island in the South Seas; inde... ...rple vault hung round with soft, trembling stars. The channel is some five leagues wide. On one hand, you have the three great peaks of Tahiti lording...

...790 But Laon? on high Freedom’s desert land A tower whose marble walls the leagued storms withstand! 15 15 15 15 15. One summer night, in commune with... ... base of that great Altar flow, As on some mountain-islet burst and shiver Atlantic waves; and solemnly and slow As the wind bore that tumult to and f... ...Ere yet success the enterprise had blessed, _3545 Leagued with me in their hearts;—their meals, their slumber, Their hourly o... ...ircumvent In the scorched pastures of the South; so bent The armies of the leagued Kings around _3825 Their files of ste... ..., as lifted Ocean’s dazzling spray, _30 From some Atlantic islet scattered up, Spangles the wind with lamp-like water-drops. ... ... As tyrants wasted them, when all _240 Leagued to quench thy flame in Gaul. 60. 60. 60. 60. 60. ‘What if English t... ...est of the omnipotence of God Which sweeps through all things. From hollow leagues, from Tyranny which arms _105 Adverse miscreeds and emulou... ... Against the escape of boldest thoughts, repels them _775 As Calpe the Atlantic clouds—this Whole Of suns, and worlds, and men, and beasts, and fl... ...es?] Of atheist priests! … And thou Fair star, whose beam lies on the wide Atlantic, Athwart its zones of tempest and of calm, ...

... by the riverside, 9 George Meredith to the front of the summer sunset, a league or so down stream; where he sees, in memory savours, the Elysian end... ...c; though it is to be feared, that our part in it will not encourage a Cis-Atlantic bard. T o America the honours from beginning to end belong. So, th... ...have come.’ The voice was articu- late, thinner than the telephonic, trans-Atlantic by deep-sea cable. Victor answered: ‘We have.’ Another minute must...

... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 The Red headed League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 A Case of I... ...tograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. The Red headed League 21 The Red headed League 2 I HAD called upon my friend, Mr. Sher... ...of the most singular which I have listened to for some time. 2 “The Red headed League”The Strand August 1891 pp. 190 204 22 The Adventures of Sherloc... ...r? It’s as true as gospel, for I began as a ship’s carpenter.” The Red headed League 23 “Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size lar... ...rself, sir.” I took the paper from him and read as follows. TO THE RED HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late Ezekiah Hopkins, of Leban... ...h, but none ever reached us. We did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a shattered stern post of the boat was seen swinging in the tr... ...of Great Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last week to t...

...Table of Contents: A Scandal in Bohemia, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 9 -- III, 18 -- The Red-headed League, 21 -- A Case of Identity, 41 -- The Boscombe Valley Mystery, 56 -- The Five Orange Pips, 77 -- The Man with the Twisted Lip, 93 -- The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, 113 -- The Adventure of the Speckled Band, 131 --...

... Intiepedir nel generoso petto. This imagined voyage of Ulysses into the Atlantic is alluded to by Pulci. E sopratutto commendava Ulisse,... ...foot of the stupendous work he stood, As if bewilder’d, looking on the crowd Leagued in his proud attempt on Sennaar’s plain. O Niobe! in what a... ...t ails thee, that thou canst not hold Thy footing firm, but more than half a league Hast travel’d with clos’d eyes and tott’ring gait, Like to a man b... ...inst Brennus and th’ Epirot prince, and hosts Of single chiefs, or states in league combin’d Of social warfare; hence Torquatus stern, And Quintius na... ...t. In three eternal Persons I believe, Essence threefold and one, mysterious league Of union absolute, which, many a time, The word of gospel lore upo... ...telligence were made: mere power The lowest: in the midst, bound with strict league, Intelligence and power, unsever’d bond. Long tract of ages by the...

..., however, as un- derstood by Herr Ballin of Hamburg, the Machiavel of the Atlantic. It is a book of exploration and dis- covery—not, however, as conc... ...ls to the lot of a true artist. At the same time, on the other side of the Atlantic, another man wrote of the sea with true artistic in- stinct. He is... ...sts compulsory vaccination. Mr. Bourne, who is not a theologian, wishes to league together not science and religion, but science and the arts. “The in... ...for the salvation of general ideas. They died neither for de- mocracy, nor leagues, nor systems, nor yet for ab- stract justice, which is an unfathoma... ...le,” and pro- ceeded to give me the history of the family’s cross- ing the Atlantic in a White Star liner. They remained in England just the time nece... ...possible conditions a boat-run of one hundred and fifty miles in the North Atlantic and in winter weather would have been a 171 Joseph Conrad feat of... ...surely it is now)—or, instead of the quay, if there had been, say, a North Atlantic fog there, with a full-grown iceberg in it awaiting the gentle con...

... on the St. Michael’s pear-tree. The stranger on foot must have worn seven-league boots to travel at such a rate. “Ill news flies fast, they say ,” th... ...terwards, was wont to slay its hundreds and thousands on both sides of the Atlantic. On the occasion of which we speak, it was distinguished by a pecu... ...ic footsteps of the Asiatic cholera, strid- ing from shore to shore of the Atlantic, and marching like destiny upon cities far remote which flight had...

...icity would prob- ably at that day have been attributed to witchcraft or a league with the Devil. Immaterial circumstances had changed as greatly as m... ...a line farther south, from Memphis to Chattanooga, Knoxville and on to the Atlantic, but assumed the offensive and made such a 198 Personal Memoirs g... .... G. Foster, who commanded all the troops south of North Caro- lina on the Atlantic sea-board, visited General Sherman be- fore he had opened communic... ...t, or anything else on land, than the bursting of a boiler anywhere on the Atlantic Ocean would have done. Indeed when the troops in Fort Fisher heard... ... by effecting a landing on the main land be- tween Cape Fear River and the Atlantic, north of the north entrance to the river. Should such landing be ... ... arrival of yourself and command to Admiral D. D. Porter, commanding North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. 646 Personal Memoirs “It is exceedingly desi...