The Sea Lions: Or, the Lost SealersGeorge Routledge and Sons, 1854 - 339 páginas |
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... forming a sort of sea - wall to protect the whole coast of the latter little territory against the waves of the broad Atlantic . Three of the oldest New York counties , as their names would imply , Kings , Queens , and Suffolk , are on ...
... forming a sort of sea - wall to protect the whole coast of the latter little territory against the waves of the broad Atlantic . Three of the oldest New York counties , as their names would imply , Kings , Queens , and Suffolk , are on ...
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... formed , goes by the name of Oyster Pond Point ; while the other , that stretches much farther in the direction of Blok Island , is the well - known cape called Mon- tauk . Within the fork lies Shelter Island , so named from the snug ...
... formed , goes by the name of Oyster Pond Point ; while the other , that stretches much farther in the direction of Blok Island , is the well - known cape called Mon- tauk . Within the fork lies Shelter Island , so named from the snug ...
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... forming nearly all the exceptions to the usage . Sunday evening , consequently , was in great request for visits , it being the favourite time for the young people to meet , as they were not only certain to be unemployed , but to be in ...
... forming nearly all the exceptions to the usage . Sunday evening , consequently , was in great request for visits , it being the favourite time for the young people to meet , as they were not only certain to be unemployed , but to be in ...
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... formed the objects of its search . It was possible to fill a vessel in those islands in a few weeks ; and the master of the sealer , Daggett having been his mate , had made all his people swear on their " bible oaths " not to reveal the ...
... formed the objects of its search . It was possible to fill a vessel in those islands in a few weeks ; and the master of the sealer , Daggett having been his mate , had made all his people swear on their " bible oaths " not to reveal the ...
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... formed a somewhat peculiar feature in her case , that her uncle favoured the views of her suitor . This ren- dered the trials of the niece so much the more severe , as she had no other judgment to sustain her than her own , fortified as ...
... formed a somewhat peculiar feature in her case , that her uncle favoured the views of her suitor . This ren- dered the trials of the niece so much the more severe , as she had no other judgment to sustain her than her own , fortified as ...
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Página 75 - 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 212 - em to be, now, almost as useful as almanacs. Read what it says about the seasons, child." " It says, sir, that the changes in the seasons are owing to ' the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit.
Página 156 - all work, and no play, makes Jack a dull boy...
Página 72 - 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 87 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Página 212 - '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 64 - WALK in the light ! so shalt thou know That fellowship of love, His Spirit only can bestow, Who reigns in light above. 2 Walk in the light...