The Sea Lions: Or, The Lost Sealers, Volúmenes 1-2Stringer and Townsend, 1852 - 434 páginas |
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... , though less for supposing that they ever braved the dangers of the high latitudes . Many are , just at this moment , much disposed to believe that " Ophir " was on this continent ; though for a reason no better than the vi PREFACE .
... , though less for supposing that they ever braved the dangers of the high latitudes . Many are , just at this moment , much disposed to believe that " Ophir " was on this continent ; though for a reason no better than the vi PREFACE .
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... dangers they all encountered , and the conquests they have all achieved . One of those named , a resolute and experienced seaman , it is thought must , at this mo- ment , be locked in the frosts of the arctic circle , after having ...
... dangers they all encountered , and the conquests they have all achieved . One of those named , a resolute and experienced seaman , it is thought must , at this mo- ment , be locked in the frosts of the arctic circle , after having ...
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... danger of his case , and still had hopes of surviving many years . The deacon came in at the door , just as the widow had passed through it , on her way to visit another crone , who lived hard by , and with whom she was in the constant ...
... danger of his case , and still had hopes of surviving many years . The deacon came in at the door , just as the widow had passed through it , on her way to visit another crone , who lived hard by , and with whom she was in the constant ...
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... danger of that sort amounted , in his eyes , nearly to a loss ( 6 Well , " exclaimed the literal Roswell Gardiner , " I think , deacon , that we have no great reason to complain . Southold , Shelter Island , and all the islands about ...
... danger of that sort amounted , in his eyes , nearly to a loss ( 6 Well , " exclaimed the literal Roswell Gardiner , " I think , deacon , that we have no great reason to complain . Southold , Shelter Island , and all the islands about ...
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... danger ahead ; but it is different with islands that a craft has actually visited . I do not see much use , Deacon Pratt , in your giving yourself any further trou- ble . My uncle was not a very rich man , I perceive , and I must go to ...
... danger ahead ; but it is different with islands that a craft has actually visited . I do not see much use , Deacon Pratt , in your giving yourself any further trou- ble . My uncle was not a very rich man , I perceive , and I must go to ...
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answered antarctic antarctic circle believe bergs berth better boat called camboose Cape Cape Horn Captain Daggett Captain Gar'ner chart chief mate clear coast cold consort course cove craft crew danger Deacon Pratt deck distance doubloons drift eyes feel floe gale Gardiner's hands Harbour Hazard heart hope hour island keep knew latitude leeward light look mariner Martha's Vineyard Mary Pratt master mate means miles mind nearly never niece night ocean once owner Oyster Pond passage passed reason rendered rocks Roswell Gardiner Roswell's sail schooner Sea Lion Sealer's Land sealers seals seaman seen Shelter Island snow soon sort Southold southward spermaceti spot Stephen Stimson stood Suffolk tell thing thought tion turned uncle vessel Vineyard voyage weather whale whole Widow wind windward winter wreck young
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Página 105 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Página 120 - Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; — upon the waterv plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own. When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown.
Página 62 - 'arth's orbit has an inclination towards changes,' you say." "The changes in the seasons, sir, are owing to 'the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit.
Página 98 - To prayer; — for the glorious sun is gone, And the gathering darkness of night comes on ; Like a curtain from God's kind hand it flows To shade the couch where his children repose. Then kneel, while the watching stars are bright, And give your last thoughts to the Guardian of night.
Página 101 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers* served that were on the other side of the flood, t or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Página 120 - Roll on, thou deep and dark, blue Ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Lord Byron. Man marks the earth with ruin; his control Stops with the shore : upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Página 210 - all work, and no play, makes Jack a dull boy...
Página 207 - In the name of God, amen. I, Ichabod Pratt, of the town of Southold, and county of Suffolk, and State of New York, being of failing bodily health, but of sound mind, do make and declare this to be my last will and testament.
Página 31 - Now far he sweeps, where scarce a summer smiles, On Behring's rocks, or Greenland's naked isles : Cold on his midnight watch the breezes blow, From wastes that slumber in eternal snow ; And waft, across the waves' tumultuous roar, The wolf's long howl from Oonalaska's shore.
Página 204 - Ye dart upon the deep, and straight is heard A wilder roar, and men grow pale, and pray ; Ye fling its floods around you, as a bird Flings o'er his shivering plumes the fountain's spray. See ! to the breaking mast the sailor clings ; Ye scoop the ocean to its briny springs, And take the mountain billow on your wings, And pile the wreck of navies round the bay.