Many InventionsD. Appleton, 1892 - 427 páginas |
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Rudyard Kipling. son had served ; and further , that I had seen some places that Fenwick had touched at . He began with a dissertation on pilotage in the Hugli . I had been privileged to know a Hugli pilot intimately . Fen- wick had only ...
Rudyard Kipling. son had served ; and further , that I had seen some places that Fenwick had touched at . He began with a dissertation on pilotage in the Hugli . I had been privileged to know a Hugli pilot intimately . Fen- wick had only ...
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... ' 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 . 17.
... ' 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 . 17.
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... seen or thought o ' white mice since he was a little bit of a boy and kept ' em in his handkerchief . So he kept himself quiet , and so they come to the Survey ship ; and the man in the boat hails the quarter - deck with something that ...
... seen or thought o ' white mice since he was a little bit of a boy and kept ' em in his handkerchief . So he kept himself quiet , and so they come to the Survey ship ; and the man in the boat hails the quarter - deck with something that ...
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... seen all the navies of the earth standing round in a ring to watch his foolish false wreck - buoys " ( those was my very words I used ) " ain't fit to have a soul , and if he did he couldn't kill a flea with it . John Dowse , you was ...
... seen all the navies of the earth standing round in a ring to watch his foolish false wreck - buoys " ( those was my very words I used ) " ain't fit to have a soul , and if he did he couldn't kill a flea with it . John Dowse , you was ...
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... seen service and were not used to idling . Cleever took in the idea slowly . ' Seen service ? ' said he . Then , as a child might ask , ' Tell me . Tell me everything about every- thing . ' ' How do you mean ? ' said The Infant ...
... seen service and were not used to idling . Cleever took in the idea slowly . ' Seen service ? ' said he . Then , as a child might ask , ' Tell me . Tell me everything about every- thing . ' ' How do you mean ? ' said The Infant ...
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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
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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.