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...could easily have beat, but he always cried out, when Mrs. Pastoureau came sailing to the rescue with arms like a flail. She only washed Harry’s face ... ...rs—was in a quite unheroic state of corporal prostration a few hours after sailing; and an enemy, had he boarded the ship, would have had easy work of...

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..., The funeral cypress, holly ever green, The weeping fir, thick beech, and sailing pine, The married elm fell with his fruitful vine. LXXVI The shoote...

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...de. Three days afterwards, as the gallant frigate, the “Repudia- tor,” was sailing out of Brest Harbor, the gigantic form of an Indian might be seen s...

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... a little old lady , wearing large bows of ribbon in her cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests began to arrive; and slo... ...action of a man on parade, he stepped lightly with his muscular legs as if sailing along, stretching himself to his full height without the smallest e... ...manders. The sailor rarely cares to know the latitude in which his ship is sailing, but on the day of battle—heaven knows how and whence—a stern note ... ...earth. It was clearing, and over the tops of the trees clouds were swiftly sailing as if unveiling the stars. Sometimes it looked as if the clouds wer...

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...orn meadow, beheld the downs beautifully clear under sun- light and slowly-sailing images of cloud. At the foot of the downs, on a plain of grass, sto...

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...contented and willing it were so, if it were my heavenly Father’s choice.” Sailing from Nice to Genoa, a storm keeps her eleven days at sea. “As the i...

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...sh flirtation from love, either in herself or in another. She seemed to be sailing with a fair wind just whither she would go, and her thoughts were m...

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...ish flirtation from love, either in herself or in another. She seemed to be sailing with a fair wind just whither she would go, and her thoughts were m...

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...p, whose departure too had been several times postponed, was on the point of sailing. Then, when I call’d to take my leave and receive the letters, hi... ...rd from him, and could not know what he was doing. This daily expectation of sailing, and all the three paquets going down to Sandy Hook, to join the ... ...t his ship was grown foul, to a degree that must necessarily hinder her fast sailing, a point of consequence for a paquet boat, and requested an allow... ...r a new ship will or will not be a good sailer; for that the model of a good sailing ship has been exactly follow’d in a new one, which has prov’d, on... ... different opinions of seamen respecting the modes of lad ing, rigging, and sailing of a ship; each has his system; and the same vessel, laden by the... ...conclusions from a combination of the whole. Even in the simple operation of sailing when at sea, I have often observ’d different judgments in the off... ...e instituted, first, to determine the most proper form of the hull for swift sailing; next, the best dimensions and properest place for the masts: the...

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...dabout approaches. If verbal logic were sufficient, life would be as plain sailing as a piece of Euclid. But, as a matter of fact, we make a travesty ... ...ll, dated 1558, no mention either of her or of Knox’s wife.* This is plain sailing. It is easy enough to understand the anger of Bowes against this in...