O'er Many Lands, on Many SeasCassell, 1884 - 176 páginas |
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... . But look at her now : she is on the very top of a curling avalanche , and speeding shorewards with it , her jibboom and bowsprit. " RUSHING STEM ON . " " IN THE SHADE OF A BANIAN TREE ( p. B 2 O'ER MANY LANDS , ON MANY SEAS . 19.
... . But look at her now : she is on the very top of a curling avalanche , and speeding shorewards with it , her jibboom and bowsprit. " RUSHING STEM ON . " " IN THE SHADE OF A BANIAN TREE ( p. B 2 O'ER MANY LANDS , ON MANY SEAS . 19.
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... trees , so is Ben my friend ; and for all the storms he has weathered , I trust I shall have him by me yet for years and years to come . Ben is so buoyant and fresh , it always instils new blood into veins merely to talk to him . " Ben ...
... trees , so is Ben my friend ; and for all the storms he has weathered , I trust I shall have him by me yet for years and years to come . Ben is so buoyant and fresh , it always instils new blood into veins merely to talk to him . " Ben ...
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... tree . I stood by that lonely grave one morning not many years ago . The ground , I remember , was all chequered with sunshine and with shade from the tree above ; little star - like primulas grew here and there . Among these and the ...
... tree . I stood by that lonely grave one morning not many years ago . The ground , I remember , was all chequered with sunshine and with shade from the tree above ; little star - like primulas grew here and there . Among these and the ...
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... tree . He bent over the grave for a moment , and then for the first time he burst into tears . * ** * The Niobe remained for ten days where she had cast anchor , in order to make good repairs . It was a very quiet spot in which she lay ...
... tree . He bent over the grave for a moment , and then for the first time he burst into tears . * ** * The Niobe remained for ten days where she had cast anchor , in order to make good repairs . It was a very quiet spot in which she lay ...
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... TREES . long , and far into the night , was hushed , sails were shaken half loose , and the Niobe only waited for a breeze to bear her down . the river and across the great and dreaded bar , where , even in the calmest weather , the ...
... TREES . long , and far into the night , was hushed , sails were shaken half loose , and the Niobe only waited for a breeze to bear her down . the river and across the great and dreaded bar , where , even in the calmest weather , the ...
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adventure Album Arabs Aye-aye battle Bay of Biscay beasts beautiful Ben Roberts birds blue boat boatswain Book brave C. L. MATÉAUX Captain Roberts Cassell & Company chief Cloth gilt coast Coloured creature cried Crown 8vo cruising dark dear deck dhows Dunryan eyes fcap fell fight fire followed forest gilt edges GORDON STABLES guns hand head heard heart hills hour Illustrated throughout Indian Ocean Indians Joliffe Jooma jungle king laughing LITTLE FOLKS looked lovely midshipman Miriam monkeys mountain never night Niobe ocean once Otakooma pirates plenty poor Quiraing replied river round sailors sails Sans Pareil savages scene seemed ship Shoe-Sally shore shouted shriek sleep soon Stories storm strange Sweeba tell terrible thunder told TOWERS OF SILENCE tree VOLUMES FOR CHILDREN W. H. G. KINGSTON wild wind wonder woods young Zanzibar Zareppa
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Página 164 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Página 131 - The sum is this : If man's convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all, the meanest things that are, As free to live and to enjoy that life As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Página 22 - Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back Their shots along the deep slowly boom : Then ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shattered sail, Or in conflagration pale Light the gloom.
Página 9 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.