In the Middle WatchChatto & Windus, 1890 - 291 páginas |
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A. B. GROSART aloft ashore barque beef biscuit blowing boat bows bowsprit brig British called canvas captain CHARLES LAMB CHARLES READE cloth extra cloth limp collisions colours craft crew Crown 8vo Dana dark deck Demy 8vo Edited English eyes fancy Fcap figure-head fire fish floating foam forecastle frigate Frontispiece green hand hauled head heave helm HUME NISBET illustrated boards imagination Irish stew Jack lady light look M'Murdo marine maritime Marryat master masts mate Miller nautical never night NOVELS ocean overboard passengers pork port Portrait Post 8vo reef rigging rolling Romance round sail sailing-ship sailors schooner seamen shark ship ship's ship's wheel side sight skipper smack steamer story suppose taffrail tell there's things topgallant sail topsail vessel Vols watch weather whale wheel whilst yard yarn
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Página 210 - ... which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone; if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Página 27 - I depend only upon your personal ambition for your acceding to this invitation: we both have nobler motives. You will feel it as a compliment if I say, that the result of our meeting may be the most grateful service I can render to my country; and I doubt not that you, equally confident of success, will feel convinced...
Página 31 - I have no wish to eat with them, drink with them, deal with them, or consort with them in any way; but let me tell the whole truth, nor fight with them, were it not for the laurels to be acquired, by overcoming an enemy so brave, determined, and alert, and every way so worthy of one's steel, as they have always proved.