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...ows and the kindling lights of London Bridge were passed, and the tiers of shipping lay on either hand. It was not until now that the upper half of th... ...o make a cradle of it, I cut out of a piece of wood that drifted from some ship or another.’ Lizzie took her right hand from the scull it held, and to... ...rab oblong face, like a face in a tablespoon, and a dyed Long W alk up the top of her head, as a convenient public approach to the bunch of false hair... ...ut. Shocked and terrified boy takes flight, seeks his fortune, gets aboard ship, ultimately turns up on dry land among the Cape wine: small proprietor... ...oks in a whitewashed office, as studiously as if he were in a monastery on top of a mountain, and no howling fury of a drunken woman were banging hers... ...llite slipped his back against the wicket, and laid his left arm along the top of it, and with his right hand turned the bull’s-eye he had taken from ... ...g breakfasts. There would be no Precedents to hammer at, except the plain- sailing Precedent of keeping the light up. It would be exciting to look out... ... dear. How can we tell what coming people are aboard the ships that may be sailing to us now from the un- known seas!’ Bella remaining invisible and s... ...John, on the day we were married, Pa’s speaking of the ships that might be sailing towards us from the unknown seas?’ ‘Perfectly, my darling!’ ‘I thin...

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... night. Now we run it off—in pipes, and burn it to heat the blast, and the top is shut by a cone. You’ll be inter- ested in that cone.” “But every now... ...o the lift by which the trucks of ore and fuel and lime were raised to the top of the big cylinder. And out upon the narrow rail that overhung the fur... .... And that cone there. It’s a damned sight too hot for roasting cakes. The top side of it’s three hundred degrees.” “Three hundred degrees!” said Raut... ... three days, and those I saw took no notice of me. About the sixth night a ship went by scarcely half a mile away from me, with all its lights ablaze ... ...the laboratory—till that flash came, but I’m hanged if I’m there now. What ship is that?” “There’s no ship,” said I. “Do be sensible, old chap.” “No s... ...his attention seemed distracted by his hallucina- tion about a beach and a ship. He kept interpolating obser- vations concerning some boat and the dav... ... us from east to west stretched the many-tinted sea all dotted with little sailing-boats. 282 The Country of the Blind “To the eastward, of course, t... ...of Hindustani from generation to generation— and none are absolutely plain sailing. But I found the one that I knew was there soon enough, and sat on ...

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...deserted shrine to Kali—who is Durga, who is Sitala, who is sometimes wor- shipped against the smallpox. Purun Dass swept the stone floor clean, smile... ...orms like 56 The Second Jungle Book pigeon-perches, made of sticks at the top of four poles—to scare away birds and other stealers. Then the deer wer... ...g, his bow in his hand, and two or three poisoned arrows stuck through his top- knot, looking half afraid and half contemptuously at the anxious villa... ... his little eyes burned like coals under the heavy, horny eye- lids on the top of his triangular head, as he shoved his bloated barrel-body along betw... ...fter swallowing a seven-pound lump of Wenham Lake ice, off an American ice-ship, in the days before Calcutta made her ice by machinery; but as he did ... ... Cumberland Sounds; and so the chain went on, till a kettle picked up by a ship’s cook in the Bhendy Bazaar might end its days over a blubber-lamp som... ...d the pack-ice, the gale and the currents were bring- ing down true bergs, sailing mountains of ice, snapped off from the Greenland side of the water ...

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...GOOD-BYE GOOD-BYE GOOD-BYE A PASSAGE was offered to Mr. Mohun in a Queen’s ship, and this hurried the preparations so much that to Dolores it ap- pear... ...th a dull kind of entertainment at all the curious arrangements of the big ship. It seemed more like sight- seeing than good-bye, when at last they we... ...hasty steps, and though an excel- lent meal had been set before her in the ship, she had not been able to swallow much, and she was a good deal worn o... ...that belongs to her,’ said Dolores. ‘Oh, there’s Uncle William!’ as on the top of the stairs she spied the welcome sight of his grey locks and burly f... ...n line, that was her fault. She did what she knew, and then sat biting the top of her pen till her aunt came back, and there was a change in occu- pat... ...she tells him most faith- fully and gratefully. They are pattern-folk from top to toe, and so is the boy. But the girl! He would have his way, and nam... ...heque, and there hasn’t been any answer at all.’ ‘Perhaps he is gone about sailing somewhere in the Pacific Ocean; I heard Uncle William saying so to ...

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...t success at a time when blows poured down like hail, had borne him to the top of that difficult ladder called Court Favor, which he had climbed four ... ...ing place to take their turn in the sport. One of them, stationed upon the top stair, naked sword in hand, prevented, or at least endeavored to preven... ...e announced. The two nobles saluted each other politely, for if no friend- ship existed between them, there was at least esteem. Both were men of cour... ...three Musketeers and D’Artagnan, conducted by La Chesnaye, appeared at the top of the staircase. “Come in, my braves,” said the king, “come in; I am g... ...et; “here it is.” “Have it examined by the governor of the port,” said the shipmaster, “and give me the preference.” “Where shall I find the governor?... ...n; “but here, I’ll pay you for us two.” “In that case let us go,” said the shipmaster. “Let us go,” repeated D’Artagnan. He leaped with Planchet into ... ... vessel, which with letters of marque from the cardinal was supposed to be sailing for Bayonne, raised anchor, and steered its course toward En- gland...

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...ragoness at Pytho, Apollo, in the form of a dolphin, brings certain Cretan shipmen to Delphi to be his priests; and the hymn ends with a charge to the... ...ey fought for the flocks of Oedipus, and some, when it had brought them in ships over the great sea gulf to T roy for rich-haired Helen’s sake: there ... ...em victual in plenty, and on the moun- tains the oak bears acorns upon the top and bees in the midst. Their woolly sheep are laden with fleeces; their... ... parents. They flourish continually with good things, and do not travel on ships, for the grain-giving earth bears them fruit. (ll. 238-247) But for t... ...leads to her, and it is rough at the first; but when a man has reached the top, then is she easy to reach, though before that she was hard. (ll. 293-3... ... well-shaped rudder over the smoke. You yourself wait until the season for sailing is come, and then haul your swift ship down to the sea and stow a c... ...ime. (ll. 641-645) But you, Perses, remember all works in their season but sailing especially. Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large on... ...a- son of wearisome heat is come to an end, is the right time for me to go sailing. Then you will not wreck your ship, nor will the sea destroy the sa... ... are called the watch-posts of Battus. Now this Battus used to live on the top of the rock and when he heard the voice of the heifers as they were bei...

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...re, and one of my companions being about to sail to London in his father’s ship, and prompting me to go with them with the common allurement of seafar... ...in an ill hour, God knows, on the 1st of September 1651, I went on board a ship bound for London. Never any young adventurer’s mis- fortunes, I believ... ...mis- fortunes, I believe, began sooner, or continued longer than mine. The ship was no sooner out of the Humber than the wind began to blow and the se... ... with what we call a shoulder- of-mutton sail; and the boom jibed over the top of the cabin, which lay very snug and low, and had in it room for him t... ...twice in the daytime I thought I saw the Pico of Teneriffe, being the high top of the Mountain Teneriffe in the Canaries, and had a great mind to vent... ...whole day, but at last we got off the hide of him, and spreading it on the top of our cabin, the sun effectually dried it in two days’ time, and it af... ...e other parts of the coast; and now I had a boat, I thought of nothing but sailing round the island. For this purpose, that I might do everything with...

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... them to abandon it. An emeute of disappointed fishers was feared, and two ships of war are in the bay to render assistance to the mu- nicipal authori... ...hen on the ‘spree’ a most consummate fool. When he came in he stood on the top of the stairs and preached in the dark with great solemnity and no audi... ... frivolity. This morning I was awakened by Mrs. S. at the door. ‘There’s a ship ashore at Shaltigoe!’ As my senses slowly flooded, I heard the whistli... ...otten one of his drawings – a Rubens, I think – a woman holding up a model ship. That woman had more life in her than ninety per cent. of the lame hum... ...nt in, and was led by most importunate finger-bills up a long stair to the top of the tower. The father smoking at the door, the mother and the three ... ... the idleness of a sanatorium; and the ‘Chateau des Morts’ is still at the top of the town; and the fort and the jetty are still at the foot, only the... ... father to the translation, when I come to quote; but that seems too plain sailing. I should put regibus in capitals for the pleasantry’s sake. We are... ... blood – for me, I mean. I was so well, however, before, that I seem to be sailing through with it splendidly. My appetite never failed; indeed, as I ... ...ar artist, can you do me that? XLII. The child being started off – the bed sailing, curtains and all, upon the sea – the child waking and finding hims...

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...iff to the sea, Where the moon-silver’d inlets Send far their light voice Up the still vale of Thisbe, O speed, and rejoice! On t... ... sea-beasts, ranged all round, Feed in the ooze of their pasture-ground; Where the sea-snakes coil and twine, Dry their mail and bask in the brine; Wh... ...here dwells a loved one, But cruel is she! She left lonely for ever The kings of the sea.” 50 Matthew Arnold The Future A wanderer is man from his bi... ... Where the moon-silver’d inlets Send far their light voice Up the still vale of Thisbe, O speed, and rejoice! On t... ... And milk-barred onyx-stones. The loaded boat swings groaning In the yellow eddies; The Gods behold him. They see the Heroes ...

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...odder and water his horses! What is his destiny to him com pared with the shipping interests? Does not he drive for Squire Make a stir? How godlike, ... ...cultivated only till they have perfected their root, and often cut down at top for this purpose, so that most would not know them in their flowering s... ...s are but our outmost cuticle and mortal coil. Otherwise we shall be found sailing under false colors, and be inevitably cashiered at last by our own ... ...gnity of an art. At present men make shift to wear what they can get. Like shipwrecked sailors, they put on what they can find on the beach, and at a ... ...ons, becomes a lower heaven itself so much the more important. From a hill top near by, where the wood had been recently cut off, there was a pleasing... ... penetrates my woods summer and winter, sounding like the scream of a hawk sailing over some farmer’s yard, informing me that many W alden 106 restle... ...mpel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness. While I enjoy the friend ship of the seasons I trust that nothing can make life a burden to me. The ... ...pond, making a very conspicuous and per fectly regular spiral groove from top to bottom, an inch or more deep, and four or five inches wide, as you w... ...the big thoughts in big words. You want room for your thoughts to get into sailing trim and run a course or two before they make their port. The bulle...

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... weather-cock. Then, he held me by the arms, in an upright position on the top of the stone, and went on in these fearful terms: “Y ou bring me, to-mo... ... to be quite awful. It was as if I had to make up my mind to leap from the top of a high house, or plunge into a great depth of water. And it was made... ...wer him one question, and he’ll ask you a dozen directly. Hulks are prison-ships, right ‘cross th’ meshes.” We always used that name for marshes, in o... ...ed that name for marshes, in our country. “I wonder who’ s put into prison-ships, and why they’re put there?” said I, in a general way, and with quiet... ...“Have another glass!” “With you. Hob and nob,” returned the sergeant. “The top of mine to the foot of yours – the foot of yours to the top of mine – R... ...said my convict to the sergeant. “Single- handed I got clear of the prison-ship; I made a dash and I done it. I could ha’ got clear of these death-col... ... tide was low, looking as if they belonged to sunken ships that were still sailing on at the bottom of the water. When- ever I watched the vessels sta... ...ough for you; shouldn’t I, Biddy?” Biddy sighed as she looked at the ships sailing on, and re- turned for answer, “Yes; I am not over-particular.” It ... ...rds mine, and looked far more attentively at me than she had looked at the sailing ships. 119 Charles Dickens “It was neither a very true nor a very ...

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... with which it never mixed. Boats with- out awnings were too hot to touch; ships blistered at their moorings; the stones of the quays had not cooled, ... ...ed with an object on which I was never consulted and which was never mine; shipped away to the other end of the world before I was of age, and exiled ... ...and day for fifteen years. There was a little mound of damped ashes on the top of the fire, and another little mound swept together under the grate, a... ...himself, wished the old man good night, and went up-stairs with her to the top of the house. They mounted up and up, through the musty smell of an old... ...advancing an old and faithful servant. Jeremiah, the cap- tain deserts the ship, but you and I will sink or float with it.’ Jeremiah, whose eyes glist... ...; environed by a narrow paved yard, hemmed in by high walls duly spiked at top. Itself a close and confined prison for debtors, it contained within it... ...rcial Colos- sus bestriding his own hearthrug, while the little ships were sailing into dinner. Behold the vessels coming into port! The engaging youn... ...nd to swim with a weight and balance that developed her 589 Little Dorrit sailing qualities. ‘The preliminaries being so satisfactorily arranged, I t...

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...supreme resolution, opened an inordinately large mouth, and shouted at the top of his voice as if calling someone in the word “Charbovari.” A hubbub b... ...nt, suddenly came in behind her. He pulled out from his wool cap with grey top-knots a letter wrapped up in a rag and presented it gingerly to Charles... ... and stumbled. It was a substantial-looking farm. In the stables, over the top of the open doors, one could see great cart-horses quietly feeding from... ...ottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her li... ...in there suddenly glimpsed some splendid city with domes, and bridges, and ships, forests of 169 Flaubert citron trees, and cathedrals of white marbl... ...ared dazzling with whiteness in the empty heavens that she lit up, and now sailing more slowly along, let fall upon the river a great stain that broke... ... of poetry. She even be- gan to sing— “One night, do you remember, we were sailing,” etc. Her musical but weak voice died away along the waves, and th... ...rom above, the whole landscape looked immovable as a picture; the anchored ships were massed in one corner, the river curved round the foot of the gre...

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...vice, all of the primest quality. Iron clamps and girders, fire proof from top to bottom; mechanical lifts for the housemaids, with all their brushes ... ... this is only in highly ornamental ex amples) a bell in a birdcage on the top of it. The solitary exception was the New Church; a stuccoed edifice wi... ...e was perfectly sure and confident that otherwise he would have been a tip top moral speci men. Then came Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby, the two ge... ... his homeward way, glancing up sometimes at the sky, where the clouds were sailing fast and wildly. But, they were broken now, and the rain had ceased... ... you to marry again, and it would cost you (if it was a case of very plain sailing), I suppose from a thousand to fifteen hundred pound,’ said Mr. Bou... ...MES 130 Slackbridges. We’ll indict the blackguards for felony, and get ‘em shipped off to penal settlements.’ Stephen gravely shook his head. ‘Don’t t... ...eer afore I coom, an’ will be heer when I am gone. Put that clock aboard a ship an’ pack it off to Norfolk Island, an’ the time will go on just the sa... ...is the drifting icebergs setting with any current anywhere, that wreck the ships. When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a ...

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...derstand—the laws of nations with regard to blockaded ports, privateering, ships and men and goods contraband of war, and all those semi-nautical, sem... ...ds vast commercial cities and great agricultural districts; had they owned ships and been masters of a wide-spread trade, America could have done noth... ...tated. They de- sired to earn their bread in the sweat of their brow, wor- shiping God according to their own lights, living in har- mony under their ... .... It is but a walk of two hours up and down, if so much. When reaching the top, he will be startled to find that he looks down into the ravine without... ...t, chickens, beef, mutton, 45 Trollope milk—and all for a dollar a day! A-top of that hill, sir, there’s a view that aint to be beaten this side of t... ...do, at times,” he said. After that my wife resolved that she would see the top of the Owl’s Head, or die in the attempt, and so we started. They never... ... carried without damage, and, as I believe, with positive advantage to its sailing. The ballast, if car- ried honestly, will not, I think, bring the v...

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...e in the shadow of the bottom block, sweet-williams and pinks in the sunny top block; seeing neat front windows, little porches, little privet hedges,... ...it was the best she could do. Moreover, she had an end house in one of the top blocks, and thus had only one neighbour; on the other side an extra str... ...e early morning, and the walk across the fields. So he appeared at the pit-top, often with a stalk from the hedge between his teeth, which he chewed a... ... him passionately. He was in the office of a lawyer connected with a large shipping firm, and at the midsummer his chief offered him a trip in the Med... ...er it, put up with it.” And his father, whom he had loved and who had wor- shipped him, he came to detest. As he grew older Morel fell into a slow rui... ... and an outsider just the ordinary human feeling and unexaggerated friend- ship; they were always restless for the something deeper. Ordinary folk see... ...was stopped, Barker and Wesson took four shillings each. Then it was plain sailing. Morel gave each of them a sovereign till there were no more sovere...

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... he confesses unashamed: ‘I said I worshipped him . . . I cannot help wor- shipping him, he is so much superior to other men.’ He studied his subject ... ... 17 Boswell’s Life of Johnson parts discernment. Thus, through his friend- ship with Boswell, Johnson will realize his wish, still to be teaching as t... ... corrected my inaccuracy, by shewing me, that it was indeed pointed at the top, but that one side of it was larger than the other. And the ladies with... ...e, till at last he appeared in his shirt, with his little black wig on the top of his head, instead of a nightcap, and a poker in his hand, imagining,... ...d, to whom Johnson had paid the high compliment of addressing to his Lord- ship the Plan of his Dictionary, had behaved to him in such a manner as to ... ...ad the girl in The Mourning Bride said, she could not cast her shoe to the top of one of the pillars in the temple, it would not have aided the idea, ... ...‘It is well known that there was formerly a rude custom for those who were sailing upon the Thames, to accost each other as they passed, in the most a...

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...ook IX is an allegory of the parts of the soul. The noble captain and the ship and the true pilot in Book VI are a figure of the relation of the peo... ...d be better for that, would he not? Certainly. And when you want to buy a ship, the shipwright or the pilot would be better? True. Then what is that ... ...a mere sailor? A captain of sailors. The circumstance that he sails in the ship is not to be taken into account; neither is he to be called a sailor;... ...ailor; the name pilot by which he is distinguished has nothing to do with sailing, but is significant of his skill and of his author ity over the sa... ... on his side, then on his back, and then on his face; then starting up and sailing in a frenzy along the shores of the barren sea; now taking the soot...

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... 6 -- Ch.1. Introduction . 11 -- Ch.2. The Human Barrier. 14 -- Ch.3. An Overview. 18 -- Ch.4. Acceleration Due to Light Pressure. 21 -- Ch.5. Light Sailing is Not All There Is. 27 -- Ch.6. Einstein's Light Barrier. 32 -- Ch.7. The Phase One Experiment: The First Starship. 37 -- Ch.8. The Phase Two Experiment: Alpha Centauri or Bust!. 45 -- Ch.9. Voyage to the Center of t...

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...Echo Electronic Press, 1995; ch.4, "The Dynamic Equipotential Model." Top - The pattern of isochrons from a particle moving at the velocity of l... .... Acceleration Due to Light Pressure ……………………………………………. 21 Ch.5. Light Sailing is Not All There Is ………………………………………………. 27 Ch.6. Einstein's Li... ...d electrodes - is fixed to the laboratory. The same is true for proposed ships propelled by light pressure from the sun. The sun is the ship's mot... ...ceeded"? In the case of a rocket or jet where the motor travels with the ship, how and why such vessels should be limited to light-speed relative t... ...o of the grand experiment, then under general relativity all clocks on the ship would be expected to keep pace with those on Earth; and if the twins ... ...e question twice more on pages 79 & 80, Z&Z give Einstein's answer at the top of page 81: "The answer is no." Then they present perhaps their strong... ...r at attaining high speeds than any other kind of propulsion - say, light sailing. Sorry to say, such a depressing outlook - and an erroneous one in... ...to post a sign for rocketships reading: On the one hand, a sailing ship which depends on light from the Sun to accelerate it remains i... ...the entirety of our solar system as well. We do not yet know what the top speed of SS Alpha will be but do not rule out superlight, its F/m 0 a...

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...causes of war. 37 H.G. Wells (1) The politically undeveloped tropics; (2) Shipping and international trade; and (3) Small nationalities and all regio... ...o many men were killed yesterday on the eastern and western front, so many ships sunk, so much prop- erty destroyed, so much human energy wasted for e... ...of com- mercial treaties, through an international control of inter- State shipping and transport rates. Unless the Allied states- men fail to underst... ...he Greeks were going about the world on foot or horseback or in galleys or sailing ships to the days when Napoleon, Wellington, and Nelson were going ... ..., then, is that every candidate with more than a quota, beginning with the top candidate, sheds a traction of each vote he has received, down the list...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-r...

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...Table of Contents: CHAPTER I ? DEPARTURE, 1 -- CHAPTER II ? FIRST IMPRESSIONS???SAIL HO!??, 3 -- CHAPTER III ? SHIP?S DUTIES?TROPICS, 6 -- CHAPTER IV ? A ROGUE?TROUBLE ON BOARD???LAND -- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CAPE HORN?A VISIT, 13 -- CHAPTER VI ? LOSS OF A MAN?SUPERSTITION, 18 -- CHAPTER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PA...

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...ER II — FIRST IMPRESSIONS—’’SAIL HO!’’ . . . . . . . . . . 6 CHAPTER III — SHIP’S DUTIES—TROPICS CHAPTER IV — A ROGUE—TROUBLE ON BOARD—’’LAND . . .... ... . 90 CHAPTER XXII — LIFE ON SHORE—THE ALERT . . . . 94 CHAPTER XXIII — NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES—MY WATCHMATE CHAPTER XXIV — SAN DIEGO AGAIN—A DESCEN... ...IN—A DESCENT—HURRIED DEPARTURE—A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 NEW SHIPMATE CHAPTER XXV — RUMORS OF WAR—A SPOUTER—SLIPPING FOR A . . . . . ... ... . . . . . . . . . 179 SQUALLS—A THUNDER STORM CHAPTER XXXV — A DOUBLE REEF TOP SAIL BREEZE—SCURVY—A FRIEND IN . . . . . . . . 183 NEED—PREPARING FO... ...ER I — DEPARTURE The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to ... ...There was a complete ‘‘hurrah’s nest,’’ as the sailors say, ‘‘everything on top and nothing at hand.’’ A large hawser had been coiled away upon my ch... ...perintending officer, is the chief mate. He is first lieutenant, boatswain, sailing master, and quarter master. The captain tells him what he wishes ... ...n stud- ding sails; while she, being an hermaphrodite brig, had only a gaff top sail, aft. Early in the morning she was overhauling us a little, but... ...chard Henry Dana CHAPTER VII — JUAN FERNANDEZ—THE PACIFIC We continued sailing along with a fair wind and fine weather until— Tuesday, Nov....

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... TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE . . . . . . . 190 THE TOWER 193 SAILING TO BYZANTIUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 THE ... ...ed sea. 12 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS Here we will moor our lonely ship And wander ever with woven hands, Murmuring softly lip to lip, Along t... ...m the sea’s sad lips, THE ROSE 33 And wage God’s battles in the long grey ships. The sad, the lonely, the insatiable, To these Old Night shall all he... ...wn sad with its eternity Made you of us, and of the dim grey sea. Our long ships loose thought woven sails and wait, For God has bid them share an equ... ...With the whimpering dead. God’s laughing in Heaven To see you so good; The Sailing Seven Are gay with His mood. THE ROSE 35 I sigh that kiss you, For... ...d cup That he, when frenzy stirred his thews, Had hammered out on mountain top To hold the sacred stuff he brews That only gods may buy of him. Now fr... ...up. ‘Before you have dipped it in the beer I dragged from Goban’s mountain top I’ll have assurance that you are able To value beer; no half legged foo... ... but braid The gold into my hair, And dream that I should carry The golden top of care? 116 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS THE REALISTS HOPE that ... ...cters remain When all is ruin once again. THE TOWER 1928 THE TOWER 193 SAILING TO BYZANTIUM I THAT is no country for old men. The young In one ano...

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... me — at my elbow. I looked — she had a gate with open trellis work at the top — and 19 The Witch and other stories there she was, up already , stand... ...adows stretched across the yard over the dewy grass from the trees and the top of the well, Matvey Savitch jumped up and began hurrying about: “Kuzka!... ...lla they burned Bengal lights and sent up fireworks in the evenings, and a sailing-boat with red lanterns floated by Obrutchanovo. One morning the eng... ...mbering forests on the bank. The trees are so tall that if you look to the top it makes you dizzy. Every pine would be worth ten roubles by the prices... ...one: “I say, Pavel Ivanitch. A soldier at Sutchan told me: while they were sailing a big fish came into collision with their ship and stove a hole in ... ...told me: while they were sailing a big fish came into collision with their ship and stove a hole in it.” The nondescript individual whom he was addres... ...he nondescript individual whom he was addressing, and whom everyone in the ship’s hospital called Pavel Ivanitch, was silent, as though he had not hea... ...l the day were asleep and talking in their dreams. It seemed as though the ship were beginning to rock. The ham- mock slowly rose and fell under Gusev...

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...st husband, had been fellow-passengers with him and his first wife, on the ship Mary 5 U. S. Grant and John, from Dorchester, England, in 1630. Mrs. ... .... There were men in Georgetown who filled all the requirements for member- ship in these churches. Yet this far-off western village, with a population... ...in Texas. Ocean steamers were not then common, and the passage was made in sailing vessels. At that time there was not more than three feet of water i... ...y small steamers, and at an island in the channel called Shell Island, the ships an- choring some miles out from shore. This made the work slow, and a... ...to the shoulders of the men, very stiff, and each stock was pointed at the top, and hard and almost as sharp as a darn- ing-needle. General Taylor hal... ...uld lie down and try to disarrange their loads by attempting to get on the top of them by rolling on them; others with tent-poles for part of their lo... ...sports to carry it to its new field of operations. The transports were all sailing vessels. The pas- sage was a tedious one, and many of the troops we... ...s down, a piece at a time, while the men at the ropes kept their ground on top, paying out gradually, while a few at the front directed the course of ... ... his graduation, Slaughter was ordered to California and took passage by a sailing vessel going around Cape Horn. The vessel was seven months making t...

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...ore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing Heav’nly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught t... ...n, whose Orb Through Optic Glass the TUSCAN Artist views At Ev’ning from the top of FESOLE, Or in VALDARNO, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains i... ...VE usurping reign’d: these first in CREET And IDA known, thence on the Snowy top Of cold OLYMPUS rul’d the middle Air Thir highest Heav’n; or on the D... ...off at Sea a Fleet descri’d Hangs in the Clouds, by AEQUINOCTIAL Winds Close sailing from BENGALA, or the Iles Of TERNATE and TIDORE, whence Merchants... ...sought access, but feard To interrupt, side long he works his way. As when a Ship by skilful Stearsman wrought Nigh Rivers mouth or Foreland, where th...

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... their stillness was but the rest of infinite motion, the sleep of a spinning top? Thy little figure, there as, in loose ill brushed threadbare habilime... ...and bebooted, bearing Joy and Sorrow bagged up in pouches of leather: there, top laden, and with four swift horses, rolls in the country Baron and his... ... five ells in length; which trains there are boys to carry. Brave Cleopatras, sailing in their silk cloth Galley, with a Cupid for steersman! Consider ... ...rates:— “The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder (and wor ship), were he President of innumerable Royal Societies, and carried the ... ....” Again, leaving that wondrous Schwarzwald Smithy Altar, what vacant, high sailing air ships are these, and whither will they sail with us? “All vis... ...aving that wondrous Schwarzwald Smithy Altar, what vacant, high sailing air ships are these, and whither will they sail with us? “All visible things ... ...er Fleet, nor Traffic, nor Commodores pleased thee, still was it not a Fleet, sailing in prescribed track, for fixed objects; above all, in combination,... ... Earth,’ as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the house top, much more her darling, man? While thou stirrest and livest, thou has... ..., amid much weeping and swearing, they are selected; all dressed in red; and shipped away, at the public charges, some two thousand miles, or say only...

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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... ...n fact was Sonya lying face down- ward on Nurse’s dirty feather bed on the top of the chest, crumpling her gauzy pink dress under her, hiding her face... ...ew groups of our Cossack scouts were moving. Sud- denly on the road at the top of the high ground, artillery and troops in blue uniform were seen. The... ...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... ...ned to Pierre. “Sergey Kuzmich—From all sides-” he said, unbut- toning the top button of his waistcoat. Pierre smiled, but his smile showed that he kn... ...is hemmed in and borne along by his regiment as much as a sailor is by his ship. How- ever far he has walked, whatever strange, unknown, and dangerous... ...a sailor is always surrounded by the same decks, masts, and rigging of his ship, so the soldier always has around him the same com- rades, the same ra... ...me com- 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 ste... ...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 ...

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...ng, drinking, sexual ex- citement—has been intimately associated with wor- ship. Even the momentary expansion of the soul in laughter is, to however s... ...f Religious Experience structure of the universe, as a fact worthy of wor- ship. In those various churches without a God which to-day are spreading th... ...t collection:— “I remember the night, and almost the very spot on the hill-top, where my soul opened out, as it were, into the Infinite, and there was... ...s little more than a sys- tematic method of keeping healthy- mindedness on top. By it a man’s accounts with evil are periodically squared and audited,... ... mo- ment more clearly visible. “Vainly I clung to these last beliefs as a shipwrecked sailor clings to the fragments of his vessel; vainly, frightene... ...camping in the wilderness for a vacation, changes his system of ideas from top to bot- tom. The presidential anxieties have lapsed into the background... ...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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...en who languish after the unattainable Sappho’s apple that laughs from the top- most bough—the charms which “Smile like the knot of cowslips on th... ...Dorothea to him, one morning, early in the time of court- 57 George Eliot ship; “could I not learn to read Latin and Greek aloud to you, as Milton’s ... ...r. He says, `Y o goo’— that’s just as good as `Y ou go.’” “But he says, `A ship’s in the garden,’ instead of `a sheep,’” said Letty, with an air of su... ...ep,’” said Letty, with an air of superiority. “Y ou might think he meant a ship off the sea.” “No, you mightn’t, if you weren’t silly,” said Ben. “How... ...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... ... in the closet there. Y ou push well at the side of the brass plate at the top, till it goes like a bolt: then you can put the key in the front lock a... ...just what she might have expected. “And we have brought the picture at the top of the carriage. I knew you would be pleased with the surprise, Casaubo...

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...7 TWYFORD, at the Bishop of St. Asaph’s, 1771. The country seat of Bishop Shipley, the good bishop, as Dr. Franklin used to style him. B. DEAR SO... ...“Then,” says he, “get yourself ready to go with Annis;” which was the annual ship, and the only one at that time usually pass ing between London and ... ...ere to be ready, but a future time was still named. Thus he went on till the ship, whose departure too had been several times postponed, was on the po... ...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... ...ily to acquire the Latin. It is true that, if you can clamber and get to the top of a staircase without using the steps, you will more easily gain the... ...ertainly, if you begin with the lowest you will with more ease ascend to the top; and I would therefore offer it to the consider ation of those who s... ... numerous, observ’d the most exact silence. He preach’d one evening from the top of the Court house steps, which are in the middle of Market street, a... ...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...

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...rder. But this must not be taken as a propitiatory offering to the gods of shipwreck; I trust my cargo unreservedly to the chances of the sea; and do ... ... are of a sort that is really indifferent in art. If Shakespeare makes his ships cast anchor by some seaport of Bohemia, if Hugo imagines T om- Tim-Ja... ...y write. Religion, poetry, love, and charming sensibility, are the current top- ics. “I am delighted, charming Clarinda, with your honest enthusiasm f... ...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 ... ... the hill-tops but in the factory; not only by the harbour full of stately ships, but in the magazine of the hope- lessly prosaic hatter. To show beau... ... the plain at the base of the mountain instead of climbing steadily to its top. Of course you will be glad of all the society you can get to go up wit... ...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...