The Great White Way: A Record of an Unusual Voyage of Discovery, and Some Romantic Love Affairs Amid Strange SurroundingsJ. F. Taylor, 1901 - 323 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 18
Página 15
... comfort to those who , like my forbears , went down to the sea in ships . Along South Street , where the sky shows through a tangle of rigging , and long bowsprits threaten to poke out windows across the way , I forgot my defeats and ...
... comfort to those who , like my forbears , went down to the sea in ships . Along South Street , where the sky shows through a tangle of rigging , and long bowsprits threaten to poke out windows across the way , I forgot my defeats and ...
Página 21
... comfort rather than speed , and by the unusual flare and flatness of her hull , reminding me of the model of Western steamers built for log jams and shallow water . Connecting with the dock was a small gangway , at the top of which ...
... comfort rather than speed , and by the unusual flare and flatness of her hull , reminding me of the model of Western steamers built for log jams and shallow water . Connecting with the dock was a small gangway , at the top of which ...
Página 22
... saloon forward . Then he disappeared again and I was left to look at my surroundings . A desk , a fireplace with a gas - log , some chairs sug- gestive of comfort , a stairway , probably leading to 22 THE GREAT WHITE WAY .
... saloon forward . Then he disappeared again and I was left to look at my surroundings . A desk , a fireplace with a gas - log , some chairs sug- gestive of comfort , a stairway , probably leading to 22 THE GREAT WHITE WAY .
Página 23
... comfort , a stairway , probably leading to the bridge above . The evidences of the real estate man's genius were becoming apparent . I might have been in the reception hall of any one of a thousand country cottages in the better class ...
... comfort , a stairway , probably leading to the bridge above . The evidences of the real estate man's genius were becoming apparent . I might have been in the reception hall of any one of a thousand country cottages in the better class ...
Página 27
... comfort in her together , and maybe find some place in the world where people still needed homes and firesides , and missionary work . She's two hundred and sixty feet long and fifty feet in the beam , twin screw and carries sixteen ...
... comfort in her together , and maybe find some place in the world where people still needed homes and firesides , and missionary work . She's two hundred and sixty feet long and fifty feet in the beam , twin screw and carries sixteen ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
The Great White Way: A Record of an Unusual Voyage of Discovery, and Some ... Albert Bigelow Paine Visualização de excertos - 1975 |
The Great White Way: A Record of an Unusual Voyage of Discovery, and Some ... Albert Bigelow Paine Pré-visualização indisponível - 1975 |
The Great White Way; a Record of an Unusual Voyage of Discovery, and Some ... Albert Bigelow Paine Pré-visualização indisponível - 2012 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
ahead ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE altogether Antarctic Antarctic Circle ascended balloon barrier beautiful believe berg Bill Billowcrest boat Bottle Bay brown cows cabin Cape Horn Captain Biffer Chase Chauncey Gale chord cold comfort dark deck Doolan dream drift EAST SIXTEENTH ST Edith Gale eyes face feet Ferratoni Gale's gwine hand harbor heah ice-wall J. F. TAYLOR Johnnie land Larkins laughed looked lozenges miles Miss Edith Miss Gale morning never Nicholas Nicholas Chase Nick night once perhaps Prince Princess river rope sail sailors seemed ship silent snow South Pole southward story Sturritt tablets TAYLOR & COMPANY telephone tell things thought tide told turned uncle vessel vibrations Victoria Land Violet Fields voice waited wall warm warm river what's wheah wind words York
Passagens conhecidas
Página 313 - There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found ; And while the mouldering ashes sleep Low in the ground...
Página 312 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Página 258 - No man could be rich, no man could be poor, in Peru ; but all might enjoy, and did enjoy, a competence. Ambition, avarice, the love of change, the morbid spirit of discontent, those passions which most agitate the minds of men, found no place in the bosom of the Peruvian.