The Red Rover: A TaleStringer and Townsend, 1852 - 522 strani |
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adventurer answer appeared Bignall boat boatswain Bob Bunt bows breeze cabin calm canvas Captain cast character Commander companion countenance crew cruiser danger Dart deck deep demanded Dolphin ears exclaimed favour feelings followed gaze Gertrude give glance governess Guinea guns hand head heard Heaven honest Honour hope hour humour instant interrupted Joram knew Lacey lady light sails lips look Madam manner mariner masts matter ment mind minute mister Robert never Newport Nighthead ocean officer passed perhaps pinnace province of Carolina quarter-deck Red Rover reply returned rigging Roderick Rover Royal Caroline sail seaman seemed seen ship silent skiff slaver smile sound spars speak stood stranger taffrail tailor thing thought tion tones topman turned uncon vessel voice voice of Wilder Wilder wind words Wyllys yard yonder young youth
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Stran 101 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
Stran 272 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Stran 272 - An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time* therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Stran 158 - Out of my grief and my impatience, Answer'd neglectingly I know not what, He should, or he should not; for he made me mad, To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet...
Stran 255 - ... correspondent to the degree of skill he might have acquired, during his particular period of service, on that treacherous element which was now his home. The dim tracery of the stranger's form had been swallowed by the flood of misty light, which, by this time, rolled along the sea like drifting vapour, semipellucid, preternatural, and seemingly tangible. The ocean itself appeared admonished that a quick and violent change was nigh. The waves...
Stran 263 - The spar cannot stand such shocks much longer," he concluded ; " should it go over the bows, some fatal blow might be given to the ship at the rate she is moving. A man or two must be sent aloft to cut the sail from the yards." " The stick is bending like a willow whip," returned the mate, " and the lower mast itself is sprung.
Stran 261 - Happy it was, for all who had life at risk in that defenceless vessel, that she was not fated to receive the whole weight of the tempest at a blow. The sails fluttered and trembled on their massive yards, bellying and collapsing alternately for a minute, and then the rushing wind swept over them in a hurricane. The Caroline...
Stran 256 - Each moment, the eastern puffs of air lost their strength, becoming more and more feeble, until, in an incredibly short period, the heavy sails were heard flapping against the masts. A frightful and ominous calm succeeded.