The Cruise of the MidgeG. Dearborn & Company, 1837 - 318 páginas |
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... began to hoist away the ensign , until it reached about half - way between the end of the long drooping wirelike yard and the deck , where the man jerked it upwards and downwards for a minute , as if irresolute whether to run it choke ...
... began to hoist away the ensign , until it reached about half - way between the end of the long drooping wirelike yard and the deck , where the man jerked it upwards and downwards for a minute , as if irresolute whether to run it choke ...
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... began to settle himself on deck ; and , before the last struck , he was stretched out on a grating with his eyes closed , and really as still and motionless as if he had been actually dead . I jumped on board , muttered a sentence or ...
... began to settle himself on deck ; and , before the last struck , he was stretched out on a grating with his eyes closed , and really as still and motionless as if he had been actually dead . I jumped on board , muttered a sentence or ...
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... began to lower again ; the wind fell from a fine working breeze to nearly calm , and soon the rain began to descend in torrents . At length it became stark calm , and as dark as the shrouded moon would let it . But every now and then we ...
... began to lower again ; the wind fell from a fine working breeze to nearly calm , and soon the rain began to descend in torrents . At length it became stark calm , and as dark as the shrouded moon would let it . But every now and then we ...
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... means permitted , while the men did the same . It was now near five P. M. , when the tide began to flow again — and as there were two good hours ' daylight - still , we determined to prove our friends a 16 CRUISE OF THE MIDGE .
... means permitted , while the men did the same . It was now near five P. M. , when the tide began to flow again — and as there were two good hours ' daylight - still , we determined to prove our friends a 16 CRUISE OF THE MIDGE .
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... began to pull in that direction bang - several cannon were again fired at us , but in this instance they were loaded with round and grape , and two of the shot told , but fortunately only one of the people was hurt , and that not ...
... began to pull in that direction bang - several cannon were again fired at us , but in this instance they were loaded with round and grape , and two of the shot told , but fortunately only one of the people was hurt , and that not ...
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Adderfang appeared arms Ballahoo beautiful began Benjie Binnacle blue boat Brail breeze brig cabin canoe captain carronades clear commodore crew dark dear deck Dennis Donovan dere deuce devil Dicky Dogvane Donovan eyes face feet felucca fire Flamingo frigate gentleman grog hand Havana head hear heard Heaven Hillo Hudson instantly Jack Jamaica laughing leetle legs length Lennox lieutenant light Listado looked loud mangroves massa Master Midge midshipman Montego bay morning Musquito negro never night once poor fellow portmanteau presently quoth roared Rory Macgregor Roseapple round rushing sail schooner seemed Sergeant Quacco ship shot shouted side Sir Oliver Spanish sparkling Sprawl stern stood suddenly sure tell thing thought Tooraloo trees trousers turned Twig vessel voice Walden wery wind wounded young
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Página 95 - Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, And HE bringeth them out of their distresses. HE maketh the storm a calm, So that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; So HE bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Página 159 - O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light, quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Página 251 - And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Página 95 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Página 275 - And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away. 27 The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
Página 71 - Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.
Página 233 - ... nuzzled until they rose and shuffled out of our way, either by creeping to the side next the ravine or up on the bank ; presently the road widened, and we got along more comfortably. I could not but admire the thousands and tens of thousands of fire-flies that spangled the gulf below us, in a tiny galaxy ; they did not twinkle promiscuously, but seemed to emit their small green lights by signal, beginning at the head of the ravine and glancing all the way down, in a wavy continuous lambent flash,...
Página 27 - ... smoke; but there was no opening on the side we approached it from, beyond a low door, not above three feet high; indeed, the eaves of the house itself were not above four feet from the ground. Right in front of us, and precisely opposite the door, ensconced in a curious nondescript chair of wickerwork, sat, very drunk apparently, and more than half asleep, a ponderous middle-aged negro, dressed in a most primitive fashion, his sole article of clothing being a common woollen blanket, with a hole...
Página 32 - ... carcass thrown to him for food. Another dog had lain down, with a hold of one of the same poor fellow's cold hands. Every now and then he would clap his head sideways on the ground, so as to get the back grinders to bear on his prey; and there the creature was, with the dead blue fingers across his teeth, crunching and crunching, and gasping, with his mouth full of froth and blood, and marrow, and white splinters of the crushed bones, the sinews and nerves of the dead limb hanging like bloody...
Página 104 - ... the troubled waters where the ship had gone down, like a ray of hope breaking through clouds and shadows on the tumultuous agitations of a departing spirit. Was it the eye of Providence glancing on the watery grave of the innocent and virtuous, and evincing through our senses, that the quenching of their gentle light amidst the howling waste of waters, although unseen of men, was not unmarked of the Eternal, " who maketh the clouds his chariot, and who walketh on the wings of the wind ?" And...