Many InventionsD. Appleton, 1892 - 427 páginas |
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... moved in those seas , for the airs was dead still till they began to blow , and then they would blow your hair off . Challong tended those lights every night after the junks had been so impi- dent , —four lights in about a quarter of a ...
... moved in those seas , for the airs was dead still till they began to blow , and then they would blow your hair off . Challong tended those lights every night after the junks had been so impi- dent , —four lights in about a quarter of a ...
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... moved ten miles from his fellows . ' I had my men , but the rest of it was pretty much alone . The nearest post that could give me . orders was fifteen miles away , and we used to helio- graph to them , and they used to give us orders ...
... moved ten miles from his fellows . ' I had my men , but the rest of it was pretty much alone . The nearest post that could give me . orders was fifteen miles away , and we used to helio- graph to them , and they used to give us orders ...
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... moved from where I left him . They rolled on the ground together , and Dennis's carbine went off and nearly shot me . The daku picked him- self up and ran , and Dennis buzzed his carbine after him , and it caught him on the back of his ...
... moved from where I left him . They rolled on the ground together , and Dennis's carbine went off and nearly shot me . The daku picked him- self up and ran , and Dennis buzzed his carbine after him , and it caught him on the back of his ...
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... moved to song if they could find a sufficiency of kissing . Whereby I understood that Eustace Cleever , decorator and colourman in words , was blaspheming his own Art , and would be sorry for this in the morning . MY LORD THE ELEPHANT ...
... moved to song if they could find a sufficiency of kissing . Whereby I understood that Eustace Cleever , decorator and colourman in words , was blaspheming his own Art , and would be sorry for this in the morning . MY LORD THE ELEPHANT ...
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... moved in the best av society , my shadow dancin ' along forninst me , an ' the gyard as solemn as putty , the bracelets on my wrists , an ' my heart full contint wid the notion of Kearney's pro- pro - probosculum in a shling . ' In the ...
... moved in the best av society , my shadow dancin ' along forninst me , an ' the gyard as solemn as putty , the bracelets on my wrists , an ' my heart full contint wid the notion of Kearney's pro- pro - probosculum in a shling . ' In the ...
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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.