The Red Rover: A Tale, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1836 - 451 halaman |
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adventurer answer appeared believe Bignall boat boatswain Bob Bunt bows breeze cabin calm canvas Captain cast character Commander companion countenance crew cruiser danger deck deep Dolphin ears exclaimed favour feelings followed gaze Gertrude give glance good-man governess Guinea guns hand head heard Heaven honest Honour hope hour instant interrupted Lacey lady land less light sails lips look Madam manner mariner masts matter ment mind minute mister Robert never Newport Nighthead ocean officer opinion passed perhaps pinnace port province of Carolina quarter-deck Red Rover reply returned rigging Royal Caroline sail seaman seen ship SHUBRICK skiff slaver smile sound spars speak stood stranger taffrail thing thought tion tones topman turned utter vessel voice voice of Wilder white squall Wilder wind words Wyllys yonder young youth
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Halaman 54 - For he made me mad, To see him shine so brisk, and smell so sweet, And talk so like a waiting
Halaman 271 - She made good view of me; indeed so much, That sure, methought, her eyes had lost her tongue, For she did speak in starts, distractedly.
Halaman 179 - driving down upon them with the speed of a race-horse. The air had already lost the damp and peculiar feeling of an easterly breeze; and little eddies were beginning to flutter among the masts—precursors of the coming squall. Then, a rushing, roaring sound was heard moaning along the ocean, whose surface was first dimpled
Halaman 134 - This is he; Who hath upon him still that natural stamp: It was wise Nature's end in the donation, To be his evidence
Halaman 179 - preparing to divest himself of some of his outer garments. " I go aloft, to ease the mast of that topsail, without which we lose the spar, and possibly the ship." " Ay, ay, I see that plain enough ; but, shall it be said, Another did the duty of Edward Earing
Halaman 179 - with which a dark cloud is. seen to sail before the hurricane. No sign of life was any where discovered about her. If men looked out, from their secret places, upon the straitened and discomfited wreck of the Bristol trader, it was covertly, and as darkly as the tempest before. which they drove.
Halaman 179 - yard. The effect was much .the same as would be produced by knocking away the key-stone of an illcemented arch. The canvas broke from all its fastenings with a loud explosion, and, for an instant, was seen sailing in the air ahead of the ship, as though sustained on the wings of an eagle. The vessel rose on
Halaman 174 - of what they deemed his temerity. At the quick, sudden order just given, however, the whole ship was instantly in an uproar. A dozen seamen. called to each other, from different parts of the vessel, each striving to lift his voice above the roaring ocean; and there was every appearance of a general
Halaman 175 - fresh, and which had even blown, at times, with a force that nearly amounted to a little gale, was lulling and becoming uncertain, as though awed by the more violent power that was gathering along the borders of the sea, in the direction of the neighbouring continent. Each moment, the eastern