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... ship biscuit ; - the latter was my prin- cipal fare , except when I could catch a fish over the sides , as we lay at anchor . I was therefore a great water drinker , not altogether from choice , but from the salt nature of my food , and ...
... ship biscuit ; - the latter was my prin- cipal fare , except when I could catch a fish over the sides , as we lay at anchor . I was therefore a great water drinker , not altogether from choice , but from the salt nature of my food , and ...
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... ship it all in bulk in a minute . " I laid down my spoon , and stooping my head , applied my mouth to the edge of the plate , and sucked the remainder down my throat without spilling a drop . I looked up for approbation , and was very ...
... ship it all in bulk in a minute . " I laid down my spoon , and stooping my head , applied my mouth to the edge of the plate , and sucked the remainder down my throat without spilling a drop . I looked up for approbation , and was very ...
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... ship if you whistled ; but those brutes have ears now fish hav'n't got none . ― " Oh well do I remember that cold dreary land , Where the northern light , In the winter's night , Shone bright on its snowy strand . " Jacob , have you ...
... ship if you whistled ; but those brutes have ears now fish hav'n't got none . ― " Oh well do I remember that cold dreary land , Where the northern light , In the winter's night , Shone bright on its snowy strand . " Jacob , have you ...
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... ship , and pulled ashore to my mother's cottage under the cliff . I thought the old soul would have died with joy . " Here old Tom was silent , brushed a tear from his eye , and , as usual , com- menced a strain , sotto voce . " Why ...
... ship , and pulled ashore to my mother's cottage under the cliff . I thought the old soul would have died with joy . " Here old Tom was silent , brushed a tear from his eye , and , as usual , com- menced a strain , sotto voce . " Why ...
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... ship I was in sailed up the Baltic with a cargo of bullocks . We had at least two hundred on board , tied up on plat- forms on every deck , with their heads close to the sides , and all their sterns looking in board . They were fat ...
... ship I was in sailed up the Baltic with a cargo of bullocks . We had at least two hundred on board , tied up on plat- forms on every deck , with their heads close to the sides , and all their sterns looking in board . They were fat ...
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Page 116 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind!
Page 68 - No glory I covet ! no riches I want ! Ambition is nothing to me ! The one thing I beg of kind Heaven to grant, Is a mind independent and free.
Page 96 - Then are they glad, because they are at rest : and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be.
Page 85 - That you be carried from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and there to be hanged by the neck till you are dead ; and may the Lord have mercy on your soul...
Page 246 - By Jove, I am not covetous of gold : Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost ; It yearns me not if men my garments wear : Such outward things dwell not in my desires : But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
Page 256 - I to myself, a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.
Page 122 - COME o'er the sea, Maiden, with me, Mine through sunshine, storm, and snows ; Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same, where'er it goes.
Page 245 - Away, Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not, I care not for thee, Kate : This is no world To play with mammets and to tilt with lips : We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns, And pass them current, too.
Page 230 - Though he win the wise, who frown'd before, To smile at last ; He'll never meet A joy so sweet, In all his noon of fame, As when first he sung to woman's ear His soul-felt flame, And, at every close, she blush'd to hear The one loved name.
Page 245 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.