Many InventionsD. Appleton, 1892 - 427 páginas |
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Página vii
... give the Dead good - night- A veil to draw twixt God His law And man's infirmity , A shadow kind to dumb and blind The shambles where we die— A sum to trick th ' arithmetic , Too base , of leaguing odds , The spur of Trust , the curb of ...
... give the Dead good - night- A veil to draw twixt God His law And man's infirmity , A shadow kind to dumb and blind The shambles where we die— A sum to trick th ' arithmetic , Too base , of leaguing odds , The spur of Trust , the curb of ...
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... give them one more chance , " he says . " If the next boat don't attend to my just representations , " - he says he remembers using those very words to Challong , — “ I'll stop the fairway . " " The next boat was a Two - streak cargo ...
... give them one more chance , " he says . " If the next boat don't attend to my just representations , " - he says he remembers using those very words to Challong , — “ I'll stop the fairway . " " The next boat was a Two - streak cargo ...
Página 18
... 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 ' em to go round by the Ombay Passage , or they'll be streaking up our water again ...
... 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 ' em to go round by the Ombay Passage , or they'll be streaking up our water again ...
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... give him his bearings . " ' Dowse , he felt very highly flattered , and he slipped into the boat , not paying any attention to Challong . But Challong swum along to the ship after the boat . When Dowse was in the boat , he found , so he ...
... give him his bearings . " ' Dowse , he felt very highly flattered , and he slipped into the boat , not paying any attention to Challong . But Challong swum along to the ship after the boat . When Dowse was in the boat , he found , so he ...
Página 34
... give me . orders was fifteen miles away , and we used to helio- graph to them , and they used to give us orders same way - too many orders . ' ' Who was your C. O. ? ' said Boileau . ' Bounderby - Major . Pukka Bounderby ; more Bounder ...
... give me . orders was fifteen miles away , and we used to helio- graph to them , and they used to give us orders same way - too many orders . ' ' Who was your C. O. ? ' said Boileau . ' Bounderby - Major . Pukka Bounderby ; more Bounder ...
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.