Great Sea Stories: Second SeriesJoseph Lewis French Brentano's, 1925 - 348 sider |
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Side 166
... yacht dipped drearily from side to side , shaking thunder out of her canvas and sending a sound , like a low sobbing wail , off her sides into the mid- night gloom . This prevented me from opening the scut- tle , and I lay half stifled ...
... yacht dipped drearily from side to side , shaking thunder out of her canvas and sending a sound , like a low sobbing wail , off her sides into the mid- night gloom . This prevented me from opening the scut- tle , and I lay half stifled ...
Side 167
... yacht , with its regular accompaniment of the yearning wash of recoiling waters , the ceaseless and irritating clicking of cabin doors upon their hooks , the idle beating of canvas above hollowly penetrating the deck with a muffled echo ...
... yacht , with its regular accompaniment of the yearning wash of recoiling waters , the ceaseless and irritating clicking of cabin doors upon their hooks , the idle beating of canvas above hollowly penetrating the deck with a muffled echo ...
Side 168
... yacht , so that the horizon seemed within cannon - shot - a merging and mingling of stationary shadows whose stirlessness was rendered the more portentous by the sulky pease- soup - coloured welter of the ocean washing into the shrouded ...
... yacht , so that the horizon seemed within cannon - shot - a merging and mingling of stationary shadows whose stirlessness was rendered the more portentous by the sulky pease- soup - coloured welter of the ocean washing into the shrouded ...
Side 169
... yacht at the first going off was beaten down on to her broadside and lay motionless , the froth washing over the rail ; and the horror of that posture of seemingly drown- ing prostration , together with the fears it put into one , was ...
... yacht at the first going off was beaten down on to her broadside and lay motionless , the froth washing over the rail ; and the horror of that posture of seemingly drown- ing prostration , together with the fears it put into one , was ...
Side 170
... yacht . For a long while the stewards were rendered helpless . They swung by stanchions or held on grimly to seats , and it was indeed as much as their lives were worth to let go ; for there were moments when the decks sloped like the ...
... yacht . For a long while the stewards were rendered helpless . They swung by stanchions or held on grimly to seats , and it was indeed as much as their lives were worth to let go ; for there were moments when the decks sloped like the ...
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Alan answered appeared bark barque blood blow boat body cabin Cape Horn Captain Crimp cockswain Colonel Hope-Kennedy creature crew cried dark dead deck devil-fish door Duke of Parma English exclaimed eyes face feet fell felucca Finn fire flogged Flying Dutchman fo'c'sl forebridge forecastle frigate gale guns hand head heard Killarney Lady Monson land Lanyard lieutenant light look Lord Admirall mangroves marines master-at-arms masts mate midshipman Miss Laura monster mouth never night oars overboard Paimpol passed phantom ship pistol port pulled punishment rigging round round shot sail sailors says schooner sea-serpent seemed seen serpent ship's shore shot shouted side sight Spaniards Spanish Fleete spectral ship spectre-ship stood struck thought told took turned unto vessel voice whale Wilfrid wind wounded wreck yacht yards