 ... the hugest smelting-pot of races and the precious metals. She keeps, besides, the doors of the Pacific, and is the port of entry to another world and an earlier epoch in man's history. Nowhere else shall you observe (in the ancient phrase) so many...  California Today, San Francisco, Its Metropolis - Stran 281903 - 192 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 520 strani
...shall you observe (in the ancient phrase) so many tall ships as here convene from round the Horn, from China, from Sydney, and the Indies; but scarce remarked...Island schooner, circulates: low in the water, with lotty spars and dainty lines, rigged and fashioned like a yacht, manned with brownskinned, soft-spoken,... | |
 | Bailey Millard - 1924 - 584 strani
...here convene from around the Horn, from China, from Sydney and the Indies. But scarce remarked among that crowd of deep-sea giants, another class of craft,...soft-spoken, sweet-eyed native sailors, and equipped with great double-ender boats that tell a tale of boisterous sea beaches." Telegraph Hill, high-topped,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson - 1925 - 460 strani
...shall you observe (in the ancient phrase) so many tall ships as here convene from round the Horn, from China, from Sydney, and the Indies; but scarce remarked...fashioned like a yacht, manned with brown-skinned, soit-spoken, sweet-eyed native sailors, and equipped with their great doubleender boats that tell a... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1891 - 1044 strani
...shall you observe (in the ancient phrase) so many tall ships as here convene from round the Horn, from China, from Sydney, and the Indies ; but scarce remarked...the Island schooner, circulates ; low in the water, 'jrith lofty spars and dainty lines, rigged and fashioned like a yacht, manned with brown-skinned,... | |
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