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...s follows:— “No doubt the common soldiers of that age had, like the common sailors of some fifty years ago, some one qualified to ‘discourse in excell... ...r to the regicide? Hermes I sent, while yet his soul remain’d Sincere from royal blood, and faith profaned; To warn the wretch, that young Orestes, gr... ...rites devour. To distant Sparta, and the spacious waste Of Sandy Pyle, the royal youth shall haste. There, warm with filial love, the cause inquire Th... ...While his fond soul these fancied triumphs swell’d, The stranger guest the royal youth beheld; Grieved that a visitant so long should wait Unmark’d, u... ...Swift to the shore they move along the strand; The ready vessel rides, the sailors ready stand. He bids them bring their stores; the attending train L... ... The god propitious gave the guiding sign; Through the mid seas he bid our navy steer, And in Euboea shun the woes we fear. The whistling winds alread... ...cease, Return’d Atrides to the coast of Greece, And safe to Argos port his navy brought, With gifts of price and ponderous treasure fraught. Hence war... ...l in a year o’erfly); Go then; to Sparta take the watery way, Thy ship and sailors but for orders stay; Or, if my land then choose thy course to bend,... ...w blazing tents illumined half the skies, While from the shores the winged navy flies; How e’en in Ilion’s walls, in deathful bands, Came the stern Gr...

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...ong the docks of any considerable sea-port would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-ofwar?s men or merchant-sailors in holiday attire ashore on liberty. In certain instances they would flank, or, like a body-guard quite surround some superior figure of their own class, moving along with them like Aldebaran among the lesser lights o...

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...ion arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-of- war’s men or merchant-sailors in holiday attire ashore on liberty. In certain instances they woul... ... courage! don’t look so downhearted, man. Why, I pledge you in advance the royal approbation. Rest assured that His Majesty will be delighted to know ... ...e delighted to know that in a time when his hard tack is not sought for by sailors with such avidity as should be; a time also when some shipmasters p... ...dividuals who, however inferior in grade, were of no common natural stamp, sailors more signally susceptive of that air which continuous martial disci... ...how more or less irasci- bility; but instantly he would control it. In the navy he was popularly known by the appella- tion- Starry Vere. How such a d... ...nother Vere his senior, a distant relative, an officer of like rank in the navy, it remained permanently attached to the surname. Chapter 7 I n view o... ... of the pedantic running thro’ him? Yes, like the King’s yarn in a coil of navy-rope?” Some apparent ground there was for this sort of confi- dential ...

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...des proclaimed her a whaler. Leaning carelessly over the bulwarks were the sailors, wild, haggard-looking fellows in Scotch caps and faded blue frocks... ...T, I must give some account of the Julia herself; or “Little Jule,” as the sailors familiarly styled her. She was a small barque of a beautiful model,... ...ve any longer with the captain, and went forward with his chests among the sailors, where he was received with open arms as a good fellow and an injur... ... had been 12 Omoo purchased by the owners at an auction sale of condemned navy stores in Sydney. But notwithstanding the wateriness of the first cour... ... two clans, and the next morning brought all the others to the feet of his royal ally. Nor was the rise of his domestic fortunes at all behind the Cor... ...rise, the farewell shouts from the canoe, as we dashed along under bellied royals, were heard unmoved by our islander; but it was not long thus. That ... ...ubjects for tattooing that the profession became quite needy. The 28 Omoo royal ally of Hardy, however, hit upon a benevolent expedi- ent to provide ... ...t upon the ladder, and looking up, saw a wide trousers’ leg. Immediately, Navy Bob, a stout old T riton, stealthily descended, and at once went to gr... ...from running up and affronting him. “So the counsellor is come,” exclaimed Navy Bob, who, like all the rest, invariably styled him thus, much to mine ...

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...other; we would argue whether it was better to go to one who gave handsome royalties or to another who “pushed” a book for all it was worth. Some adve... ... same neighbourhood we felt friendly disposed to one another. The Army and Navy Stores are a bond of union between all who dwell between the river and... ...nd of golf, of their children and the latest play , of the pictures at the Royal Academy , of the weather and their plans for the holidays. There was ... ... informed me. I was glad that, catching sight of the clock at the Army and Navy Stores, he remembered an en- gagement to play cards at his club, and s... .... He sits him in a seat of honour. At last, like a courtier fawning on the royal stick that is laid about his shoulders, he prides himself on the sens... ...n Nichols sought the hospitality of Tough Bill. This was the mas- ter of a sailors’ boarding-house, a huge mulatto with a heavy fist, who gave the str... .... His power depended on his prestige, and first one, then another , of the sailors who lived in his house told them that he had sworn to do Strickland... ...lond Northmen from a Swedish barque, Japa- nese from a man-of-war, English sailors, Span- iards, pleasant-looking fellows from a French cruiser, negro... ...beauty of its own. Captain Brunot was a Breton, and had been in the French Navy . He left it on his marriage, and settled down on a small property he ...

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...least he never stripped the peaceful homestead and humble farmer, like the royal purveyors!” “Ha—young rebel!” exclaimed the hunter. “Know you what yo... ...as as bounteous, his heart as merciful, as hers, save where attacks on the royal game had been re- quited by the trouble complained of; and that in su... ...the doom of Adam de Gourdon, rebel first, and since that the terror of our royal father’s lieges, the robber of his treasurers, the rifler of our Cous... ...luence. To both the loss was as that of a father; and the murmur among the sailors was to them as a voice saying, “Knowest thou that God will take awa... ...to Palestine; but the Genoese, from whom, in the abeyance of the En- glish navy, he had been obliged to hire his transports, abso- lutely refused to s...

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... and cheerful. From his superior height, he was enabled to look down quite royally on the man whose repose he had disturbed. The following conversatio... ...wd of cricketers and farm-labourers, as if discharged from a great gun. ‘A royal salvo!’ said my father, and asked me earnestly whether I had forgotte... .... My father backed a horse to run in the races on Epsom Downs named Prince Royal, only for the reason that his name was Prince Royal, and the horse wo... ...I’m not a prince, I’m a nobleman,’ I said to Temple. He replied, ‘ Army or Navy. I don’t much care which. We’re sure of a foreign war some time. Then ... ...He declared he had been thinking seriously for a long time of entering the Navy, and his admiration of the captain must have given him an intu- ition ... ...nd our com- prehension. The sailor Joe was nowhere to be seen. None of the sailors appeared willing to listen to us, though they stopped as they were ... ...r would leaning over the taffrail, nor lying curled under a tarpaulin. The sailors heaped pilot-coats upon us. It was a bad ship, they said, to be sic... ... remember that night, for I yielded to swearing, and drank too!’ The other sailors roared with laughter. 125 George Meredith I tipped them, not to ap... ...fter our interview with Captain Bulsted he had wished to enter the British Navy. This was no more than a sign that he was highly pleased. For my part ...

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...ith your dear face for company, and to hear the wind and remember the poor sailors at sea—” Ah! Perhaps Richard was going to be a sailor. We had talke... ... Mr. Jarndyce doubted whether he might not already be too old to enter the Navy, Richard said he had thought of that, and perhaps he was. When Mr. Jar... ...ble men!” said Mr. Badger in a tone of confidence. “Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy, who was Mrs. Badger’s first husband, was a very distinguished o... ...n!” said Mr. Badger in a tone of confidence. “Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy, who was Mrs. Badger’s first husband, was a very distinguished officer... ...s barely twenty,” said Mrs. Badger, “when I married Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy. I was in the Mediterra nean with him; I am quite a sailor. On ... ...ly twenty,” said Mrs. Badger, “when I married Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy. I was in the Mediterra nean with him; I am quite a sailor. On the tw... ...I have been called, for some years now, Gentleman T urveydrop, or that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent did me the honour to inquire, on my remov ...

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... , and wishing to relieve it, I posted off myself to the Queen Charlotte’s Royal Married Females,’ which you had forgot, and put the question, Was the... ...t driven to despair on your account. But it did so happen, that one of the Royal Married Females, hearing the inquiry, re- minded the matron of anothe... ...nt ob- jects. Gog and Magog held their state within ten minutes’ walk; the Royal Exchange was close at hand; the Bank of England, with its vaults of g... ...have attained a pretty green old age, have not been wanting in the English Navy. The stock-in-trade of this old gentleman comprised chro- nometers, ba... ...hurrah for the West Indies, Captain Cuttle! How does that tune go that the sailors sing? 222 Dombey & Son ‘For the Port of Barbados, Boys! Cheerily! ... ... some very undesirable association, I regret to say, with certain coasting sailors, of anything but good repute, and a runaway old bankrupt.’ ‘I have ... ...em. Of nets and seamen’s clothes spread out to dry upon the shore; of busy saIlors, and their voices high among ships’ masts and rigging; of the buoya...

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...nd,’ said Mr Pecksniff, ‘you may well in- quire. The heart is not always a royal mint, with patent machinery to work its metal into current coin. Some... ...n good health, I believe,’ said Martin. ‘Queen Victoria won’t shake in her royal shoes at all, when she hears to-morrow named,’ observed the stranger,... ...al, smiling with a mild consciousness of his knowledge, ‘is nat’rally your royal residence. Being located in the immediate neighbourhood of your Parks... ...wit society, and by the gallant defenders of their country in the army and navy, but particularly the former. The least of their stories had a colonel... ...h with which I now sub- scribe myself—amid the tempestuous howlings of the—sailors, ‘Unalterably, ‘Never yours, ‘AUGUSTUS.’ They thought as little of ...

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...irst marriage, that Charles Jenkin turned his mind in the direction of the navy; and it was in Buckner’s own ship, the Prothee, 64, that the lad made ... ...he Yeomanry, owned famous horses, Maggie and Lucy, the lat- ter coveted by royalty itself. ‘Lord Rokeby, his neighbour, 8 Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin c... ...o well, and had an order from Lord Melville for the lad’s admission to the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth. Both the Bishop and the Admiral patted h... ...me as I write, and gives a strange notion of the arts in our old En- glish Navy. Yet it was again as an artist that the lad was taken 12 Memoir of Fl... ...argo of combustibles had taken fire and was smouldering under hatches; his sailors were in the hold, where the fumes were already heavy, and Jenkin wa... ...3, and named after Admiral Fleeming, one of his father’s protectors in the navy. His childhood was vagrant like his life. Once he was left in the care... ...nds, the men we telegraphed for to Cagliari) hauling at the rope; wiremen, sailors, in the crev- ices left by ropes and machinery; everything that cou... ...rding this engineering letter; for the craft which brought out our Italian sailors must return to Cagliari to-night, as the little cable will take us ... ...us food’ of which he spoke so much, which he sought so eagerly, enjoyed so royally. He wrote to an author, the first part of whose story he had seen w...

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...ad. The concept of a metal that is yellow being sacred and reserved only for royal use; comes from our seeing the dirty yellow color of lions stan... ...udge rests in an entire social network of laws-lawyers-police-legislators-Army-Navy-Air force and a whole host of Governmental bodies sworn to protec... ...d. It became even weaker, more inefficient and more corrupt than the corrupt Royal regimes that still opposed it. Napoleon won all of his most bri... ...And appeared only in order to impress the awe-struck masses with their sacred Royal presence, their shining noble splendour… dressed in the most exp... ...them Did America enter WW2 because it was attacked by the Japanese Imperial Navy? Yes and no. The bankers who controlled FDR and his government…... ...e going to attack Pearl Harbor and did nothing to stop it, he allowed his own navy to be bombed on purpose… Oh the infamy! What was truly infamous... ...il they grew accustomed to an almost completely vegetarian diet. It saved the sailors from starvation. However, it also raised their awareness leve... ...ing vessel in those days to function properly. For hundreds of years: British sailors had sailed under far harsher, brutalized conditions and never ... ...ght to mutiny. Bligh’s voyage was the only ocean voyage ever taken where the sailors had stopped eating meat altogether for a long period of time. ...

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...small actions to be weighed prop- erly, and people to be stripped of their royal robes, beg- gars’ rags, generals’ uniforms, seedy out-at-elbowed coat... ...or’s sepulture. “Some demanded,” says an eloquent anonymous Captain in the Navy who has written an “Itinerary from Toulon to St. Helena,” “that the co... ...nd faithful servants, were likewise in the vessel. It was commanded by his Royal Highness Francis Ferdinand Philip Louis Marie d’Orleans, Prince de Jo... ...on board the French frigate, and brought his father’s best respects to his Royal High- ness. The Governor was at home ill, and forced to keep his room... ...ar being placed at the foot of the mizzen-mast. The coffin, carried by our sailors, passed between two ranks of officers with drawn swords, and was pl... ...Commodore Napier was pouring broad- sides into Tyre and Sidon; our gallant navy was storm- ing breaches and routing armies; Colonel Hodges had seized ... ...ays of her memorable combat with the “Saucy Arethusa.” “These five hundred sailors,” says a French newspaper, speaking of them in the proper French wa... ...l explain to you)—I doubt, I say, whether these weapons are ALWAYS worn by sailors, and have heard that they are commonly and very sensibly too, locke... ...reasonably supposed that the picked men of the crack frigate of the French navy are a “good specimen” of the rest of the French marine, any more than ...

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... mythological about them. A short time ago, while making researches in the Royal Library for my History of Louis XIV, I stumbled by chance upon the Me... ...perhaps, before himself. Thus Louis XIII had a real liking for T reville—a royal lik- ing, a self-interested liking, it is true, but still a liking. A... ...becoming a gentle- man. I will write a letter today to the Director of the Royal Academy, and tomorrow he will admit you without any ex- pense to your... ...etween England and France was talked of as near and certain, and the jolly sailors were having a carousal. D’Artagnan made his way through the crowd, ... ...ousin’s place, I would not keep such gourmands! They look like shipwrecked sailors who have not eaten for six weeks.” M. Coquenard entered, pushed alo... ... of the merchant captain the whole crew of the vessel, both passengers and sailors, were called upon deck. When this species of summons was made the o... ...u may perceive, madame, by my uniform, that I am an officer in the English navy,” replied the young man. “But is it the custom for the officers in the... ...plied the young man. “But is it the custom for the officers in the English navy to place themselves at the service of their female compatriots when th...

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...ared him a Circumnavigator. Was 147 Charles Dickens pitch-forked into the Navy, but has not circumnavigated. I announced myself and was disposed of w... ...dds are that Mrs Boffin and me may never go upon the water. Being both bad sailors, we should want a Steward if we did; but there’s generally one prov... ...waiting for ships to be wafted from the hollow ports of civilization. For, sailors to be got the better of, were essential to Miss Pleasant’s Eden. No... ...except that they were smooth. Pleasant 351 Charles Dickens had an eye for sailors, and she noticed the unused colour and texture of the hands, sunbur... ...ne at the stools and boxes, and spitting in the fireplace, and so loitered royally to the window and looked out into the narrow street, with his small... ...im from a window of the Observatory, where the Familiars of the Astronomer Royal nightly outwatch the winking stars. But, the minutes passing on and n... ...Friend out of me to-day , my dear, but that was to be expected. There’s no royal road to learning; and what is life but learning!’ ‘And what do you do... ... army?’ ‘Not exactly,’ said Fledgeby, rather flattered by the ques- tion. ‘Navy?’ asked Miss Wren. 707 Charles Dickens ‘N—no,’ said Fledgeby. He qual...

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...an at the shrine. But Purun Bhagat never moved, and, little by little, the royal stag edged up and nuzzled his shoulder. Purun Bhagat slid one cool ha... ...ying at the back of something.” In the maps that desolate coast is written Navy Board Inlet, but the Inuit name is best, because the country lies at t... ...eer- skins embroidered with musk-ox teeth, and real canvas-needles such as sailors use—the finest dowry that has ever been given on the far edge of th...

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..., and after dinner a man named Atkins called in. He is a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and a pleasant, talkative man. He was on friendly terms with my... ...after dinner a man named Atkins called in. He is a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and a pleasant, talkative man. He was on friendly terms with my broth... ... open question in entomology. There were memorable occasions. At times the Royal Entomological Society meetings resembled nothing so much as the Chamb... ... it, but of all those who saw it none could have marvelled more than those sailors, habitual watchers of the stars, who far away at sea had heard noth... ...ome over Iceland and Greenland and the shores of Baffin’s Bay, so that the sailors coming there presently found them green and gracious, and could sca... ...urse of the canoe, and dropped the boat with Lieutenant da Cunha and three sailors to board her. Then the curiosity of the captain made him draw up al...

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...e after nightfall to Klausenburgh. Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way w... ...ndon Directory, the “Red” and “Blue” books, Whitaker’s Almanac, the Army and Navy Lists, and it somehow gladdened my heart to see it, the Law List. ... ...ry heart was bleeding, and it took all the man hood of him, and there was a royal lot of it, too, to keep him from breaking down. I paused before an ... ...d those who have seen describe as like giant nuts or pods, and that when the sailors sleep on the deck, because that it is hot, flit down on them and ...

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...towers above all others, and lies to the eastward of what I take to be the royal palace.” That is the new Temple of the Sun, who is adored in Syria un... ...strolling one night down a long dirty street in the vicinity of the Palais Royal. Being both, apparently, occupied with thought, neither of us had spo... ... ‘Le Monde,’ (a paper devoted to the shipping interest, and much sought by sailors,) will bring him to our residence.” He handed me a paper, and I rea... ...evidently been used in tying the hair in one of those long queues of which sailors are so fond. Moreover, this knot is one which few besides sailors c... ...n board ship. His ultimate design was to sell it. Returning home from some sailors’ frolic the night, or rather 145 V olume One in the morning of the... ...of a perfumer, who occupied one of the shops in the basement of the Palais Royal, and whose custom lay chiefly among the desperate adventurers infesti... ... of the boat taken up on Monday, unless we imagine some connexion with the navy—some personal permanent connexion leading to cognizance of its minute ...

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...sfully in a manufacture of parchment. He was a zealous high-church man and royal- ist, and retained his attachment to the unfor- tunate house of Stuar... ... necessity of ‘making provision for the day that was passing over him.’ No royal or noble patron extended a munificent hand to give in- dependence to ... ...r prospect to men of literary merit, who had been honoured with no mark of royal favour in the preceding reign. His present Majesty’s education in thi... ...t part of the time was passed at Ply- mouth, where the magnificence of the navy, the ship-building and all its circumstances, afforded him a grand sub... ...f he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argo- nauts, who were the first sailors.’ He then called to the boy, ‘What would you give, my lad, to know ... ...ity of manner. She had never been in London. Her brother, a Captain in the navy, had left her a fortune of ten thou- sand pounds; about a third of whi... ...e name of Molly Aston, who was afterwards married to Captain Brodie of the navy. On Sunday, March 24, we breakfasted with Mrs. Cobb, a widow lady, who... ...inted, that there could be no way so good as that of a Round Robin, as the sailors call it, which they make use of when they enter into a conspiracy, ...

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...re employed in preparations for sea, reeving studding sail gear, crossing royal yards, putting on chafing gear, and taking on board our powder. On ... ...rds, as the wind was getting ahead; and I could plainly see by the looks the sailors occasionally cast to wind- ward, and by the dark clouds that we... ...ed about in grand confusion. There was a complete ‘‘hurrah’s nest,’’ as the sailors say, ‘‘everything on top and nothing at hand.’’ A large hawser h... ...to me, unintelligible orders constantly given and rapidly executed, and the sailors ‘‘singing out’’ at the ropes in their hoarse and peculiar strain... ... officer, seeing my lazy posture, ordered me to slush the main mast from the royal mast head, down. The vessel was then rolling a little, and I had ta... ...hould be ruined at once. So I took my bucket of grease and climbed up to the royal mast head. Here the rocking of the vessel, which increases the high... ...arly two years; and the governor—an Englishman who had entered the Chilian navy—with a priest, half a dozen task masters, and a body of soldiers, we... ...try was to a new and rich farming region, the Napa Valley, the United States Navy Yard at Mare Island, the river gold workings, and the Geysers, and ... ...nvitation so far as to stop at Vallejo to breakfast. The United States Navy Yard, at Mare Island, near Vallejo, is large and well placed, with d...

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...sary to sustain the captain without question, and in a few minutes all the sailors charged with mutiny were in irons. I rather felt for a time a wish ... ... on the old steamer Ohio, commanded at the time by Captain Schenck, of the navy. It had not been determined, until a day or two before starting, that ... ...e out, “I wish I had taken my father’s advice; he wanted me to go into the navy; if I had done so, I should not have had to go to sea so much.” Poor S... ...als throughout the South so as to be on hand when treason wanted them. The navy was scattered in like manner. The President did not prevent his cabine... ...earn- ing his route, had sent in about 4,000 men—many more than there were sailors in the fleet. Sherman went back, at the request of the admiral, to ... ...erintend the preparation of the steamers selected to run the batteries, as sailors would probably understand the work better than soldiers. I was glad... ...e in North Carolina; Beaufort, Folly and Morris islands, Hilton Head, Port Royal and Fort Pulaski in South Carolina and Georgia; Fernandina, St. Augus... ...of the navy in chang- ing our base of supplies from Fredericksburg to Port Royal, on the Rappahannock. Up to this time I had received no reinforcement... ...ouse, on the Pamunkey. The wagon train and guards moved directly from Port Royal to White House. Supplies moved around by water, guarded by the navy. ...

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... things, taking away his passport.With help from a dissident member of the royal family, he managed to get out of the country under the pretext of att... ... human sources as well as some technical intelligence collection.The Army, Navy,Air Force, and Marine Corps have their own intelligence components tha... ...telli- gence Authority consisting of the secretaries of State,War, and the Navy, and a personal representative of the president.This body was to be as... ...ng mission of each service, and their long and proud traditions, the Army, Navy,Air Force, and Marine Corps have often fought ferociously over roles a... ...ORT Final 5-7.5pp 7/17/04 11:46 AM Page 212 in a destroyer and 17 dead sailors, the Pentagon might have wanted to respond. Instead, they have ofte... ...their friends can help them change. 20 There are signs that Saudi Arabia’s royal family is trying to build a consensus for political reform, though un... ... ouchstone, 2001), pp. 80–82. On aid provided by a dissident member of the royal fam- ily , see Intelligence report, interrogation of KSM, Sept. 27, 2...