Many InventionsD. Appleton, 1892 - 427 páginas |
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... dark The children wise of outer skies Look hitherward and mark A light that shifts , a glare that drifts , Rekindling thus and thus , Not all forlorn , for Thou hast borne Strange tales to them of us . Time hath no tide but must abide ...
... dark The children wise of outer skies Look hitherward and mark A light that shifts , a glare that drifts , Rekindling thus and thus , Not all forlorn , for Thou hast borne Strange tales to them of us . Time hath no tide but must abide ...
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... darkness ; but their servants can be led to think otherwise . If you are fair - spoken and take an interest in their duties , they will allow you to sit with them through the long night and help to scare the ships into mid- channel . Of ...
... darkness ; but their servants can be led to think otherwise . If you are fair - spoken and take an interest in their duties , they will allow you to sit with them through the long night and help to scare the ships into mid- channel . Of ...
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... dark green and the W white , as a wreck - buoy should be painted . Between them two they makes a round dozen of these new kind of wreck - buoys , and it was a two months ' job . There was no big traffic , owing to it being on the turn ...
... dark green and the W white , as a wreck - buoy should be painted . Between them two they makes a round dozen of these new kind of wreck - buoys , and it was a two months ' job . There was no big traffic , owing to it being on the turn ...
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... night . " ' And so it was . They two looked at Flores Straits , and they saw lights one after the other stringing across the fairway . Dowse , he had seen the steamers hanging there before dark , and he said to THE DISTURBER OF TRAFFIC .
... night . " ' And so it was . They two looked at Flores Straits , and they saw lights one after the other stringing across the fairway . Dowse , he had seen the steamers hanging there before dark , and he said to THE DISTURBER OF TRAFFIC .
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Rudyard Kipling. steamers hanging there before dark , and he said to Challong : " We'll give ' em something to remember . Get all the skillets and iron pots you can and hang them up alongside o ' the regular four lights . We must teach ...
Rudyard Kipling. steamers hanging there before dark , and he said to Challong : " We'll give ' em something to remember . Get all the skillets and iron pots you can and hang them up alongside o ' the regular four lights . We must teach ...
Términos y frases comunes
Abdul Gafur acrost ain't answered Badalia Bai-Jove-Judson began bein bloomin boat Boileau Bull buoys called captain Challong Charlie children of men Cleever dead deck dinghy docthor Dowse elephint eyes face fight fire flat-iron Flores Strait fwhat galley Girl Gisborne give Grish Chunder Guadala gunboat Gunnison Street hand head heard heart Herodsfoot Hicksey honour Jenny Judson Keller killed knew Lascar Loo's mother laughed light looked Love-o'-Women M'Phee mahout Mowgli Mulvaney musth never night nilghai niver orf'cer Ortheris Ouless Peshawur policeman Rathmines remember rifle round rukh Sahib ship shouted Skrælings song sorr speak story tale talk Tangi tell Terence thee There's thin things thou thought tide told took turned Twas veranda village voice walk whin wint woman women words
Pasajes populares
Página 326 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Página 114 - I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the sea-tides tossing free; And Spanish sailors with bearded lips, And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. And the voice of that wayward song Is singing and saying still: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Página i - Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Página 106 - OR ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave, I was a King in Babylon And you were a Christian Slave.
Página 114 - Wouldst thou," — so the helmsman answered, " Learn the secret of the sea ? Only those who brave its dangers Comprehend its mystery...
Página 361 - Majesty hang to St. James The axe that he whetted to hack us ; He must play at some lustier games Or at sea he can hope to out-thwack us ; To his mines of Peru he would pack us To tug at his bullet and chain ; Alas ! that his Greatness should lack us !But where are the galleons of Spain ? ENVOY.
Página 400 - ... as an Arab Of thy beloved. Cling with life to the maid; But when the surprise, First vague shadow of surmise Flits across her bosom young, Of a joy apart from thee, Free be she, fancy-free; Nor thou detain her vesture's hem, Nor the palest rose she flung From her summer diadem. Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Though her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive; Heartily know, When half-gods go. The gods arrive.
Página 113 - ... somewhere in the sea, you know ; ' and, delighted with my paltry five pounds, had gone out to buy the notions of other men, that these might teach him how to write. I had the consolation of knowing that this notion was mine by right of purchase ; and I thought that I could make something of it. When next he came to me he was drunk — royally drunk — on many poets for the first time revealed to him.