The Red Rover: A TaleHurd & Houghton, 1871 - 534 halaman |
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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 mate matter ment mind minute mister Robert never Newport night Nighthead ocean officer passed pinnace province of Carolina quarter-deck Red Rover reply returned rigging Roderick Rover sail seaman seemed seen ship silent skiff slaver smile sound spars speak stood stranger taffrail tailor thing thought tion tones topman turned uncon utter vessel voice voice of Wilder Wilder wind words Wyllys yard yonder young youth
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Halaman 438 - 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...
Halaman 266 - I cut?" he demanded, with uplifted arms, and in a voice that atoned for his momentary confusion, by its steadiness and force. " Hold! — Does the ship mind her helm at all?"
Halaman 269 - The vessel rose on a sluggish wave — .the lingering remains of the former breeze — and then settled heavily over the rolling surge, borne down alike by its own weight and the renewed violence of the gusts. At this critical instant, while the seamen aloft were still gazing in the direction in which the little cloud of canvas had disappeared, a lanyard of the lower rigging parted with a crack that even reached the ears of Wilder.
Halaman 269 - ... own weight and the renewed violence of the gusts. At this critical instant, while the seamen aloft were still gazing in the direction in which the little cloud of canvas had disappeared, a lanyard of the lower rigging parted with a crack that even reached the ears of Wilder.
Halaman 260 - ... water on which his vessel was rolling, to the sails; and from his silent and profoundly expectant crew, to the dim lines of spars that were waving above his head, like so many pencils tracing their curvilinear and wanton images over the murky volumes of the superincumbent clouds. "Lay the after-yards square!
Halaman 268 - What would you do, Captain Wilder?" interrupted the mate, laying his hand on the shoulder of his commander, who had already thrown his sea-cap on the deck, and was preparing to divest himself of some of his outer garments. " I go aloft to ease the mast of that top-sail, without which we lose the spar, and possibly the ship.