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... feet , and in turning round I displaced a loose stone , which fell with a dull , heavy sound on the green grass below . My eye followed the stone in its descent , and the great depth of the ground below me so affected my brain , that ...
... feet , and in turning round I displaced a loose stone , which fell with a dull , heavy sound on the green grass below . My eye followed the stone in its descent , and the great depth of the ground below me so affected my brain , that ...
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... feet broad , there were more than a score of boys and young men diving one after the other into the well . It was then after two o'clock in the morning . Strip- ping off our clothes , Frank and I had a dive with the rest , though the ...
... feet broad , there were more than a score of boys and young men diving one after the other into the well . It was then after two o'clock in the morning . Strip- ping off our clothes , Frank and I had a dive with the rest , though the ...
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... feet of chain attached to the hook . A shark's under - jaw opens like a snuff - box with the lid downward , his upper- jaw being fixed and immoveable , and his monstrous mouth , wide enough sometimes to swallow a man whole , is fur ...
... feet of chain attached to the hook . A shark's under - jaw opens like a snuff - box with the lid downward , his upper- jaw being fixed and immoveable , and his monstrous mouth , wide enough sometimes to swallow a man whole , is fur ...
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... feet in length , porpoises about half that length ; they follow mackerel and other small fish into bays , mouths of rivers , and harbours , sailing in troops one after another , with great quickness , like boys at leap - frog , diving ...
... feet in length , porpoises about half that length ; they follow mackerel and other small fish into bays , mouths of rivers , and harbours , sailing in troops one after another , with great quickness , like boys at leap - frog , diving ...
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... feet of the mainmast were left standing ; the rest had gone overboard in two or three pieces . The bulwarks were almost all levelled with the deck , the hatches washed off , and part of the ballast out of the hold . The chain cables ...
... feet of the mainmast were left standing ; the rest had gone overboard in two or three pieces . The bulwarks were almost all levelled with the deck , the hatches washed off , and part of the ballast out of the hold . The chain cables ...
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Página 28 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Página 28 - My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Página 122 - The unencumbered Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Página 261 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Página 122 - Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear, as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! At this moment the...
Página 261 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Página 121 - Elevated on the high dead limb of some gigantic tree 'that commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the various feathered tribes that pursue their...
Página 122 - The snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy tringae coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful cranes, intent and wading ; clamorous crows, and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of nature. High over all these hovers one whose action instantly arrests his attention.
Página 137 - Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.
Página 137 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.