Many InventionsD. Appleton, 1892 - 427 páginas |
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... hand of the indicator on the wall pulsed from mark to mark . Eight pulse- beats timed one half - revolution of the Light ; neither more nor less . Fenwick checked the first few revolutions care- fully ; he opened the engine's feed ...
... hand of the indicator on the wall pulsed from mark to mark . Eight pulse- beats timed one half - revolution of the Light ; neither more nor less . Fenwick checked the first few revolutions care- fully ; he opened the engine's feed ...
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... hand , keeping an eye on the indicator . There's a regular crank for that . But it hasn't happened yet . We'll need all our compressed air to - night . ' ' Why ? ' said I. I had been watching him for not more than a minute . ' Look ...
... hand , keeping an eye on the indicator . There's a regular crank for that . But it hasn't happened yet . We'll need all our compressed air to - night . ' ' Why ? ' said I. I had been watching him for not more than a minute . ' Look ...
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... hand . And that subject was wrecks , and voyages , and old- time trading , and ships cast away in desolate seas , steamers we both had known , their merits and de- merits , lading , Lloyd's , and , above all , Lights . The talk always ...
... hand . And that subject was wrecks , and voyages , and old- time trading , and ships cast away in desolate seas , steamers we both had known , their merits and de- merits , lading , Lloyd's , and , above all , Lights . The talk always ...
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... hands was all webby - foot , too . He was called , I remember Dowse saying now , an Orange - Lord , on account of his habits . You've heard of an Orange - Lord , sir ? ' ' Orang - Laut ? ' I suggested . ' That's the name , ' said ...
... hands was all webby - foot , too . He was called , I remember Dowse saying now , an Orange - Lord , on account of his habits . You've heard of an Orange - Lord , sir ? ' ' Orang - Laut ? ' I suggested . ' That's the name , ' said ...
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... hands together . He dropped astern in five minutes , and I suppose he went back to the Wurlee Light . You can't drown an Orange - Lord , not even in Flores Strait on flood - tide . ' Dowse come across me when he came to England with the ...
... hands together . He dropped astern in five minutes , and I suppose he went back to the Wurlee Light . You can't drown an Orange - Lord , not even in Flores Strait on flood - tide . ' Dowse come across me when he came to England with the ...
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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.