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... Rosita on the East Indiaman, the Prince George. The ship was one of the largest of the company’s vessels, well armed and amongst the first all iron ... ...ver Ganges by wooden, gaily-painted barges towed by a steamboat. The journey was slow because the vessels were being dragged upstream against the na... ...oly man, I meant no harm to the memsahib, but only wanted to show her Kunkali’s temple.’ Then he scuttled away by the exit behind the idol and Helen...

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...of the Atlantic before the time of Columbus -- Noah's Ark compared with modern vessels -- Egypt a country of marvels -- A great naval battle 1250 B.C.... ...he royal preserves and magnificent gardens -- The man-eaters of Fugiu -- Great vessels in the India trade -- How they were built and propelled -- The ... ... a storm -- He compels Narvaez to acknowledge submission -- Capture of several vessels and military supplies -- Reorganizes, recruits his army and ret... ...he bud Of defeat. -- Recruiting another expedition against Mexico -- Capturing vessels and enlisting their crews -- A vast army and supply of military... ...ition -- He decides to attempt a northwest passage -- Capture of other Spanish vessels on his way -- Among the natives of California -- The discovery ... ...antled, and after every movable thing had been placed on shore, the ships were scuttled and sunk. At this bold act the soldiers were struck with const... ...oat?" he asked of Peter. "She had gone down. We had no further use for her and scuttled her before we came on board." But Peter the Great did not rema...

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...d another man I scarcely knew, a visitor. Women and children hollered and scuttled inside, making for the rear of the house. Something crashed again... ... no interruptions of any sort. I slammed the doors, bolted them. A mouse scuttled across the room. Until I resolved the perfect angles, sheet after... ...of me, gulls mewing. “Mermaid...mermaid,” a sailor yelled aloft, and we scuttled to the starboard rail, to see something break water and then sub... ...ssion. Five ships have been captured at sea and the slaves on board those vessels have been returned to Liberia. Now, an American ship, the Erie, o...

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...tion and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter....

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...ring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countr... ...e two continents, were deeply interested in the matter. For some time past vessels had been met by “an enor- mous thing,” a long object, spindle-shape... ...ntre with the Abraham Lincoln?” “Professor, I am sorry for one of the best vessels in the American navy; but they attacked me, and I was bound to defe... ...nd I love it as if it were part of myself. If danger threatens one of your vessels on the ocean, the first impression is the feeling of an abyss above... ... it reaches absolute tran- quillity. There, sir! that is the perfection of vessels! And if it is true that the engineer has more confidence in the ves... ...t, seeing that the treasure must fall into the enemy’s hands, he burnt and scuttled every gal- leon, which went to the bottom with their immense riche...

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...ng it was! The old lady from Chicago ducked like an emancipated hen as she scuttled about the road, cram- ming pieces of rock into her reticule. She s... ...in-mouth, and hat-on-the-back-of-the-head style of dealing with the sacred vessels, would count himself, spiritually, quite competent to send a missio...

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...eight or ten miles off, and send a boat ashore to trade. The crews manning vessels like these are for the most part villains of all nations and dyes; ... ...s a hole in the bottom large enough to drop a barrel through: she had been scuttled most ruthlessly. Jermin was frantic. Dashing his hat upon deck, he... ...an whaler, and were desirous of ship- ping aboard one of their own country vessels. We made the land in the afternoon, coming abreast of a shady glen ... ...lor- ing ships and adventurous whalers notwithstanding the great number of vessels of all kinds of late navigating this vast ocean. Indeed, considerab... ...d to us the ship’s place at noon, though such is the custom aboard of most vessels. Meanwhile, he was very assiduous in his attention to the invalids.... ...h will survive to repeople the ship in an incredibly short period. In some vessels, the crews of which after a hard fight have given themselves up, as...

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...ey in the ship Condor,” &c., and ends by recommending it warmly to sailing vessels leaving the China ports for the south in the months from December t... ...be bur- ied, leaving directions in his will to have the bark towed out and scuttled decently in deep water on the day of the funeral. His daughter wou...

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...e Isle? In the middle of the Loire stream, on signal given, the gabarre is scuttled; she sinks with all her cargo. ‘Sentence of Deportation,’ writes C... ...ries, into the National meltingpot, to make cannon. Censers and all sacred vessels are beaten broad; of silver, they are fit for the poverty-stricken ... ... Next came Mules high-laden with crosses, chandeliers, censers, holy-water vessels, hyssops;—recall- ing to mind the Priests of Cybele, whose panniers... ... ‘have become like Pawn-brokers’ shops;’ all manner of furniture, apparel, vessels of gold and silver accumulate themselves there: bread is precious. ...

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...ng the helpless ruins of the battle- ship through field-glasses. Two other vessels stood by her, one an exhausted petrol tank, very high out of the wa... ...rt’s heart began to beat rapidly. He felt himself poised over the fighting vessels far below. In a moment, were they to drop like a hawk striking a bi... ...he Prince was first to grasp the situation and lead the retreat. All three scuttled like rabbits for the trees, and ran to and for cover until they fo...

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...tle boat glided away as rap- idly as possible in the midst of the thousand vessels which choke up the narrow way which leads between the two rows of s... ...s granted; and three months afterwards, around the twelve or fifteen small vessels which had brought these gypsies of the sea, a small village sprang ... ... the South Seas from whence they had been brought by the different trading vessels. “As for the ink,” said Faria, “I told you how I managed to obtain ... ...he should stand out to sea; but he soon saw that she would pass, like most vessels bound for Italy, between the islands of Jaros and Calaseraigne. How... ...ly indiscreet, gave him great facilities of communication, either with the vessels he met at sea, with the small boats sailing along the coast, or wit... ...uch hospital- ity, thanks to the smugglers and bandits. The history of the scuttled vessels, which had appeared improbable during the day, seemed very...

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...ing Colonel, with a look that pierced through Kim’s shoulder blades as he scuttled into the carriage. It took him nearly five minutes to recover. The... ...th his chart to a casual way farer than an archbishop would pawn the holy vessels of his cathedral. All Tibet is full of cheap reproductions of the W...

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... falls into the procession filing in to service. Then, the Sacristan locks the iron-barred gates that divide the sanctuary from the chancel, and all o... ... upper slide, on being pulled down (leaving the lower a double mystery), revealed deep shelves of pickle-jars, jam-pots, tin canisters, spice-boxes, a...

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... of men, Like Peter the Apostle,— and he fish’d For wandering merchant vessels, now and then, And sometimes caught as many as he wish’d; T... ...tmen upon the look, Not as of yore to carry off an Io, But three Ragusan vessels, bound for Scio. Then came her freedom, for she had no mother, ... ...of a pirate. You ‘re wrong.— He was the mildest manner’d man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat: With such true breeding of a gentleman, ... ...was nine, when still advancing undismay’d, Within a cable’s length their vessels lay Off Ismail, and commenced a cannonade, Which was return...

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...and protects Charles II., let Holland do so; they will quarrel, they will fight. They are the only two mari- time powers. Let them destroy each other’... ...d have lost that memory, however bad it might have been. When one has heard Grimaud, who, you know, is not given to talking, relate how the head of Ki... ... hoys, or some of those Dutch barks which fishermen draw up on the sand on rollers, as the ancients did, according to Virgil. When the tide is ris- in... ...nued the king, “this is your parting audience; you can afterwards set out as soon as you please.” “Sire, I thank you.” “But be sure you make your peac... ...ell fish to the corsairs.” “Ha! Corsairs — what do you mean?” “Well, I mean that M. Fouquet is having two corsairs built to chase the Dutch and the En... ...ce of about half a knot. They approached like arrows shot from the bow of a skillful ar- cher; and yet the sea ran so high that their speed was as not...

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... of the Cunard steamer, off to-morrow, as the stocks in trade of several butchers, poulterers, and fishmongers, poured down into the ice-house; he was... ... carts were already in theirs), and, finally, the bell would strike up, and the train would come banging in. But there were few passengers and little ... ...s immortal part has departed; he is gone to the happy hunt- ing-plains.’ This belief leads to the logical sequence that when a man is buried, some of ...

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...ter school a dozen times. She was tactful, torrentially anecdotal. She had scuttled about town and plucked compliments: Mrs. Dr. Westlake had 112 Mai... ...tric sparks for candles, and piston-rings possessing the sanctity of altar-vessels. His liturgy was composed of intoned and metrical road-com- ments: ... ...kmen like Miles 285 Sinclair Lewis taking control frightened her, and she scuttled rapidly away from the thought of a time when she might no longer r...

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...Julius Caesar cross the Rubicon? And to come to more modern examples, what scuttled the ships, and left stranded and cut off the gallant Spaniards und... ... and I have heard say that what we call nature is like a potter that makes vessels of clay, and he who makes one fair vessel can as well make two, or ... ...speed; but the attempt failed, for the chief galley was one of the fastest vessels afloat, and overhauled her so rapidly that they on board the brigan...

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...hould be relieved from the apprehensions we naturally felt of the prowling vessels of the Tetuan corsairs, who leave Barbary at nightfall and are on t... ...22 ed. Caesar cross the Rubicon? And to come to more modern examples, what scuttled the ships, and left stranded and cut off the gallant Spaniards und... ... and I have heard say that what we call nature is like a potter that makes vessels of clay, and he who makes one fair vessel can as well make two, or ... ...speed; but the attempt failed, for the chief galley was one of the fastest vessels afloat, and overhauled her so rapidly that they on board the brigan...

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...lor, to speak her. She came down to us, backed her main topsail, and the two vessels stood ‘‘head on,’’ bowing and curvetting at each other like a co... ...down, scrubbing and swabbing the decks. This, together with filling the ‘‘scuttled butt’’ with fresh water, and coiling up the rigging, usually oc... ...t a ship carpen ter is kept in constant employ during good weather on board vessels which are in, what is called, perfect sea order. - 8 - Two Years... ... by allowing them duff twice a week on the passage home. On board some vessels this is made a day of instruction and of religious exercises; ... ...g, and the periods of calm are so short, that it has no time to go down; and vessels, being under no command of sails or rudder, lie like logs upon th... ...e Cortes, whaleman, of New Bedford, and had put in to see if there were any vessels from round the Horn, and to hear the latest news from America. Th... ...k Tom Cox’s traverse’’—‘‘three turns round the long boat, and a pull at the scuttled butt.’’ This morning everything went in this way. ‘‘Sogering’’...

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...hone in a thunder-storm. Wooden ships shriek and growl and grunt, but iron vessels throb and quiver through all their hundreds of ribs and thousands o... ... keep his eyes on the ground as an Arab should, but stuck out his nose and scuttled for the 177 The Day’s Work dear honour of the game. They had wate...

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...e Isle? In the middle of the Loire stream, on signal given, the gabarre is scuttled; she sinks with all her cargo. ‘Sentence of Deporta- tion, ’ write... ...ries, into the National meltingpot, to make cannon. Censers and all sacred vessels are beaten broad; of silver, they are fit for the poverty-stricken ... ...ext came Mules high-laden with crosses, chandeliers, censers, holy-wa- ter vessels, hyssops;—recalling to mind the Priests of Cybele, whose panniers, ... ... ‘have become like Pawn-brokers’ shops;’ all manner of furniture, apparel, vessels of gold and silver accumulate themselves there: bread is pre- cious...