Cooper's Novels, Volume 9Stringer and Townsend, 1852 |
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... minutes , and thankful am I to find some one at last who is on board to answer me . " " What are your orders , Capt . Spike ? " " To see all clear for a start as soon as the flood makes . I shall go through the Gate on the next young ...
... minutes , and thankful am I to find some one at last who is on board to answer me . " " What are your orders , Capt . Spike ? " " To see all clear for a start as soon as the flood makes . I shall go through the Gate on the next young ...
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... minutes , to take possession , and then they re - appeared on deck , to gaze at the horrors of the Hell Gate passage . Rose was all eyes , wonder and admiration of everything she saw . This was actually the first time she had ever been ...
... minutes , to take possession , and then they re - appeared on deck , to gaze at the horrors of the Hell Gate passage . Rose was all eyes , wonder and admiration of everything she saw . This was actually the first time she had ever been ...
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... minutes she would be fairly in the Gate . Spike was aft , where he could command a view of everything forward , and Mulford stood on the quarter - deck , to look after the head- braces . An old and trustworthy seaman , who acted as a ...
... minutes she would be fairly in the Gate . Spike was aft , where he could command a view of everything forward , and Mulford stood on the quarter - deck , to look after the head- braces . An old and trustworthy seaman , who acted as a ...
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... would go down into the cabin and rest a few minutes on its sofa . We say sofa , for that article of furniture , now - a - days , VOL . I 4 --- is far more common in vessels than it was thirty OR , THE FLORIDA REEF . 37.
... would go down into the cabin and rest a few minutes on its sofa . We say sofa , for that article of furniture , now - a - days , VOL . I 4 --- is far more common in vessels than it was thirty OR , THE FLORIDA REEF . 37.
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... minutes after this change had taken place . " Your respected uncle did a great deal of this in his time , and was very successful in it . I have heard him say , that in one of his voyages between Liverpool and New York , he beat the ...
... minutes after this change had taken place . " Your respected uncle did a great deal of this in his time , and was very successful in it . I have heard him say , that in one of his voyages between Liverpool and New York , he beat the ...
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a'ter anchor answered appeared ashore aunt aunty better Biddy boat boatswain brig brig's brigantine cabin called canvas Captain Mull Captain Spike circumstance course craft danger dear deck distance Don Juan Don Wan doubloons Dry Tortugas duty eyes fancied feel flour forecastle foresail half hand Harry Mulford heard hope hour hydropathy instant island islets Jack Tier Josh keep Key West knew light light-house look Madam Budd mainsail manner masts matter Mexican mile minutes Miss Rose Molly Swash Mona Passage never night once passage passed Poughkeepsie reef relict returned rock Rose Budd Rose's sail schooner seemed seen Señor Montefalderon ship side sloop-of-war soon sort spot state-room steamer Stephen Spike steward's assistant stood tell thing thought turned Uncle vessel Wallace watch wind windward wish wreck yards yawl young mate
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Page 3 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down : and, as they say, Lamentings heard i' the air ; strange screams of death: And, prophesying with accents terrible Of dire combustion and confused events, New hatch'd to the woeful time, The obscure bird clamour'd the live-long night : Some say the earth was feverous, and did shake.
Page 1 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I : when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Page 63 - The western wave was all a-flame; The day was well nigh done! Almost upon the western wave Rested the broad bright Sun; When that strange shape drove suddenly Betwixt us and the Sun. And...
Page 188 - MAN hath a weary pilgrimage As through the world he wends, On every stage from youth to age Still discontent attends ; With heaviness he casts his eye Upon the road before, And still remembers with a sigh The days that are no more.
Page 185 - Don't grudge a poor morthal half a minute of lite, at the last moment," answered Biddy. " It's not long that I'll throuble ye, and so no more need be said.