Great Sea StoriesJoseph Lewis French Tudor Publishing Company, 1943 - 491 sider |
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Side 51
... hours to live , there might have been a chance for me , reckoning from sunrise to noon . But with an hour and a half , which had dwindled to an hour and a quarter by this time - or , in other words , with the earli- ness of the morning ...
... hours to live , there might have been a chance for me , reckoning from sunrise to noon . But with an hour and a half , which had dwindled to an hour and a quarter by this time - or , in other words , with the earli- ness of the morning ...
Side 53
... hour ? Half an hour ? Fifty minutes ? Twenty minutes ? Steady ! an inch of tallow - candle wouldn't burn longer than twenty minutes . An inch of tallow ! the notion of a man's body and soul being kept together by an inch of tallow ...
... hour ? Half an hour ? Fifty minutes ? Twenty minutes ? Steady ! an inch of tallow - candle wouldn't burn longer than twenty minutes . An inch of tallow ! the notion of a man's body and soul being kept together by an inch of tallow ...
Side 311
... hour , or thereabouts , after my quitting the smack , when , having descended to a vast distance beneath me , it made three or four wild gyrations in rapid suc- cession and , bearing my loved brother with it , plunged head- long , at ...
... hour , or thereabouts , after my quitting the smack , when , having descended to a vast distance beneath me , it made three or four wild gyrations in rapid suc- cession and , bearing my loved brother with it , plunged head- long , at ...
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Foreword by William V Pratt Admiral U S N Retired | 1 |
The Sinking of the Repulse | 28 |
The Wreck of the Royal Caroline | 56 |
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