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...sia began and ended before breakfast, and we went on board and steamed for Gibraltar, looking, as we passed, at Joinville’s black squadron, and the wh... ...g to play stirring marches as we puffed out of the bay. THE NEXT STAGE was Gibraltar, where we were to change horses. Before sunset we skirted along ... ...n, across Channel, Biscay Bay, and the Atlantic, from Southampton Water to Gibraltar Straits. CHAPTER IV: GIBRALTAR SUPPOSE ALL THE NA TIONS of the ea... ...ropriate house of call, and your imagination may figure the Main Street of Gibraltar: almost the only part of the town, I believe, which boasts of the... ...it neat half-pay officers, drinking half- pints of port. The club-house of Gibraltar is not, however, of the Charles Street sort:it may have been chee... ...hat, at least, is useful informa- tion. As every person intending to visit Gibraltar cannot have seen the flea-bitten countenances of our companions, ... ...nfidence of the mahogany, I could entertain you with many queer stories of Gibraltar life, gathered from the lips of the gentlemen who en- joyed thems... ...he vast Rock rises on one side with its interminable works of defence, and Gibraltar Bay is shining on the other, out on which from the terraces immen... ... of a different way of thinking, however, can suit themselves perfectly at Gibraltar; where there is marching and counter-marching, challenging and re...

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..., crying out, “Halty man come, Halty man come; Georgie want sweetie!” “The Gibraltar man!” cried John and Annie with one voice, and they were at the b... ...ister’s frock, with entreaties of “Susie, Susie, come.” “They call him the Gibraltar man, because he sells Gibraltar rock, and gingerbread, and all th... ...r—so we must encourage him.” So Henry hastened downstairs to encourage the Gibraltar man; and Susan, saying soothingly, “Y es, yes, Georgie;—never min... ...am. 58 The Stokesley Secret “Please, Sam, please, Miss Fosbrook, send the Gibraltar man away, and don’t let him come,” cried David quite pas- sionate... ...aid Miss Fosbrook good-humouredly, “suppose we have no right to banish the Gibraltar man?” “I don’t wan’t him,” said Bessie; “it makes my fingers stic... ...“You’re no good,” said David vehemently. “I don’t like you, and I hate the Gibraltar man, taking away all our money from poor Hannah.” “Gently, gently... ...of his own who want food as much as Hannah’s do.” “Then can’t they eat the Gibraltar rock and bulls’ eyes?” Sam suggested that this diet would make th... ...e the pig was bought, he would give all his money for a whole month to the Gibraltar man, if he would not come for the next four weeks. And Christabel... ...nes, and a halfpenny was subtracted from this week’s threepence; while the Gibraltar man had consumed all that fines had spared to little Annie, had l...

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...ery little heeded by the Algerines till recently, when the pos- session of Gibraltar and Minorca had provided harbours for British ships, which exerci... ...ersed in the vernacular of the Mediterranean, and a cook’s boy, shipped at Gibraltar, was also supposed to be capable of interpreting. The beautiful b... ...ptured were always released. The English had made use of the possession of Gibraltar and Minorca to enforce a like treaty. There was a little colony o... ...ride near the chief, who talked a good deal, asking intelligent questions. Gibraltar had impressed him greatly, and it also appeared that in one of hi...

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...stume reader: 129 Frank Norris “Speaking of fortifications, Mrs. Hoskins, Gibraltar now—that’s a wonderful rock, isn’t it?” “Rock!” she queried. “I t... ...out or read about Heidelberg University?” But K. D. B. was all abroad now. Gibraltar and Heidel- berg were unknown subjects to her, as were also inocu... ...e Encyclopaedia?” “Don’t you see it? No wonder she didn’t know beans about Gibraltar! She hadn’t come to the G’s by then.” “She’s reading the Encyclop...

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...en. He gazed with wonder upon the fortifications which make this place the Gibraltar of the Indian Ocean, and the vast cisterns where the English engi...

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...e months more at Pentonville, and then be will go to Portland, Chatham, or Gibraltar.’ ‘Oh, I hope it will not be Gibraltar! But at least that ter- ri... ...’s death. I should say he ought to be doing out-of-doors work—per- haps at Gibraltar, but then he would be out of our reach. I could not get much from...

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...aid: all he wants is to serve his country. If you won’t have war, give him Gibraltar or Malta, or com- mand of one of our military districts. The Sout...

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...t requires some nerve and resolution to climb to the summit of this little Gibraltar, the shape of which is nearly round, and from which a sudden gust...

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..., and that he would not touch at any Spanish port, but pass the Straits of Gibraltar by night, or as best he could, and make for La Rochelle, from whi...

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...ould be established in Ireland, and that Malta and 310 The Prime Minister Gibraltar would be taken away from us;—all of which evils would be averted ...

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...gers in one craft or the other; and, by degrees or at once, arrived all at Gibraltar,—Boyd, one or two young demo- crats of Regent Street, the fifty p... ...New from the falling ruins of the Old, the summer and autumn of 1830. From Gibraltar and Torrijos the tidings were vague, unimportant and discouraging... ...y asleep on his horizon there. Tidings, at last of a decisive nature, from Gibraltar and the Spanish democrat adventure. This is what the Newspapers h... ...followers, and sorrow and regret to himself. Poor Torrijos, on arriving at Gibraltar with his wild band, and coming into contact with the rough fact, ... ...hfulest eye on all his movements, nay it was conjectured they had spies in Gibraltar who gathered his very intentions and betrayed them. This small pr... ...oned before the attempt. Torrijos had to lie painfully within the lines of Gibraltar,—his poor followers reduced to extremity of impatience and distre... ...st, what he saw and felt to be clearly necessary, that he would soon leave Gibraltar. And he did soon leave it; he and his, Boyd alone of the Englishm... ...nner of troops and detached parties were in motion, to render a retreat to Gibraltar by land impossible. Crowd all sail for Malaga, then; there perhap... ...i- terranean; and that I designed leaving this on Monday next for Cadiz or Gibraltar, and then going on to Malta, whence Italy and Sicily would be acc...

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...ed his country, lost his limb, and received several wounds at the siege of Gibraltar. When he was discharged from the hospital abroad he came over to ... ...he exchange you have made. The regiment you was formerly in is ordered for Gibraltar.’ “I received this news with far less transport than it was deliv... ...ing it as a right, and partly desiring it as a favour, that he might go to Gibraltar in my room. “This letter convinced me in every point. I was now i... ... when he heard that I was to remain where I was, and that we were to go to Gibraltar together, he fell into transports of joy little short of madness.... ...nt from my mind? “At length we embarked aboard a transport, and sailed for Gibraltar; but the wind, which was at first fair, soon chopped about; so th... ... Chapter v Chapter v Chapter v Chapter v Chapter v The arrival of Booth at Gibraltar, with what there befel him. “THE ADVENTURES,” continued Booth, “w... ... continued Booth, “which I happened to me from this day till my arrival at Gibraltar are not worth recounting to you. After a voyage the remainder of ... ...f she ever desired to see me more, to 107 Henry Fielding come directly to Gibraltar. She said she should not have de- layed a moment after receiving ... ...re- 116 Amelia turn from Italy, whither he was gone some time before from Gibraltar; nor was it proper for Amelia to take any long jour- ney, she bei...

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... said Betty. “I should have fewer anxieties if he had not been sent out to Gibraltar and Minorca to superintend the fortifications.” “Meantime my Lady... ...his tutor, on the expedi- tion to the Mediterranean. He had come home from Gibraltar, and joined his regiment only a few weeks before setting out with... ...d my mother objected lest it should break my spirits. However, when I left Gibraltar, my good father charged me to endeavour from time to time to enli... ...you were in the hands of the pirates, sir.” “So I was; but the governor of Gibraltar obtained my re- lease, and was good enough to send me home direct...

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...ing it again on the morrow, and showed that if the attack were successful, Gibraltar would be the first result of the victory. That fa- mous place, wh... ...what would have become of the enemy’s fleet had it been attacked, and that Gibraltar would have been found in exactly the same state as when abandoned... ...hat might be offered him. He was ordered at the same time to join Tesse at Gibraltar. He had already done so at the instance of Tesse himself; so the ... ...ne so at the instance of Tesse himself; so the courier went from Madrid to Gibraltar to find him. His rage and vexation upon seeing himself deprived o... ...e Duc de Grammont at once wrote word that Maulevrier had left the siege of Gibraltar and returned to Madrid. This disobedience was at once chas- tised... ...lainly towards what rock we were drifting. We had met losses at Hochstedt, Gibraltar, and Barcelona; Catalonia and the neighbouring countries were in ... ...uke. Port Mahon made but little resistance; so that with this conquest and Gibraltar, the English found themselves able to rule in the Mediterranean, ... ...ther this desire, obtained from England a prom- ise that she would give up Gibraltar to its former owners, the Spaniards. The King of England consente... ... the King of En- gland, written and signed by his hand, to the Governor of Gibraltar, commanding him to surrender the place to the King of Spain the v...

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...f Asia Minor and of Greece, plundered Syracuse, steered for the Straits of Gibraltar, sailed along the shores of Spain and Gaul, passing finally throu...

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...e measles.’ ‘ I know; and I will tell you something curious. When I was at Gibraltar I met Mrs. Emmott—’ ‘Mary Brooke?’ ‘Yes; I spent a very happy Sun...

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...at island called Atlantis, situate directly at the mouth of the straits of Gibraltar, which contained more countries than both Africa and Asia put to-... ...tain Carthaginians, having crossed the Atlantic Sea without the Straits of Gibraltar, and sailed a very long time, discovered at last a great and frui...

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... two thousand miles to the westward from that, just outside the Straits of Gibraltar. See ye not then, ship- mates, that Jonah sought to flee world-wi... ... as hopeful as for Lavater to have scrutinized the wrinkles on the Rock of Gibraltar, or for Gall to have mounted a ladder and manipu- lated the Dome ...

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...nel fleet; Major Gen. X. L., on re- signing the lieutenant governorship of Gibraltar; Hon. G. F ., on going out as secretary to the governor of Malta,...

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...Helena. Steel plates, T rumbull’s Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Sally from Gibraltar. Copper plates, Moses Smiting the Rock, and Re turn of the Pro...