Miriam Coffin: Or The Whale-fishermen. A Tale ...Harper & Brothers, 1835 |
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... pass into the grave , -leaving him the sole tenant of the earth . The crooked legs and claw - feet of the little old - fashioned cherry table multiplied a thousand fold in number and in crookedness , till we almost fancied it a huge ...
... pass into the grave , -leaving him the sole tenant of the earth . The crooked legs and claw - feet of the little old - fashioned cherry table multiplied a thousand fold in number and in crookedness , till we almost fancied it a huge ...
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... pass the reader whose mouth waters must go to ' con- set for his chowder , if he would , like unto us , enjoy a super- lative luxury compounded of simples . As the clam - shell dipper , which had come and gone full oft between our ...
... pass the reader whose mouth waters must go to ' con- set for his chowder , if he would , like unto us , enjoy a super- lative luxury compounded of simples . As the clam - shell dipper , which had come and gone full oft between our ...
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... pass , however , that by peaceable negotiation Mas- sachusetts obtained dominion over the islands upon her shore , and Block Island fell to the lot of the Providence Plantations ; while Long Island , with which nature had de- fended the ...
... pass , however , that by peaceable negotiation Mas- sachusetts obtained dominion over the islands upon her shore , and Block Island fell to the lot of the Providence Plantations ; while Long Island , with which nature had de- fended the ...
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... pass in a shape which our fathers little dreamed of . Thou must know , my friend , that when the pestilence raged among the natives of the island in the year 1764 , which reduced their numbers to a mere handful , but left the whites ...
... pass in a shape which our fathers little dreamed of . Thou must know , my friend , that when the pestilence raged among the natives of the island in the year 1764 , which reduced their numbers to a mere handful , but left the whites ...
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... pass away with unwonted celerity . With reluctance we cast our eyes out upon the sun , which was fast running down the west ; and we reached for our hat , and held out our hand to take leave . Our companio n gave it a kindly pressure ...
... pass away with unwonted celerity . With reluctance we cast our eyes out upon the sun , which was fast running down the west ; and we reached for our hat , and held out our hand to take leave . Our companio n gave it a kindly pressure ...
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American amusing answered Antarctic Circle appeared ball-room beach blue-fish body called canst captain colony common Communipaugh companion dance deep didst dost thou dress exclaimed eyes father favour females fiddle fortune-teller girls give Grampus Grimshaw GUY RIVERS habits hand hath heart honour Imbert Indian inhabitants Isaac island Jethro Coffin Jonathan Coleman kritter ladies Leviathan look Macy manner Manta massa mast ment Minnows and mack'rel MIRIAM COFFIN Nantucket nation never New-York numbers observed once Peleg Folger Quaker quohogs replied rest Ruth and Mary sail sands scene Seth shearing ship shore Siasconset side spermaceti spiles Starbuck strangers sure tale Tashima tell thee thing thou art thou hast thou know'st thou wilt thou'rt tion town of Sherburne trade tribe Tristram Coffin tucket turn vessel voice voyage waif whale whale-fishermen whale-fishery whale-ships wigwam wind words young
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Página 1 - 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. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place...
Página 25 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Página 1 - 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 45 - To be always running three or four thousand miles with a tale or a petition, waiting four or five months for an answer, which when obtained requires five or six more to explain it in, will in a few years be looked upon as folly and childishness — There was a tini-e when it was proper, and there is a proper time for it to cease.
Página 33 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 82 - To festive mirth, and wit that knows no gall. Meantime, their joyous task goes on apace : Some mingling stir the melted tar, and some, Deep on the new-shorn vagrant's heaving side, To stamp his master's cipher ready stand ; Others the...
Página 1 - 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.
Página 79 - Head above head ; and ranged in lusty rows The shepherds sit, and whet the sounding shears.
Página 12 - Sea, to examine the coasts, islands, harbors, shoals, and reefs in those Seas, and to ascertain their true situation and description, has been put in a train of execution. The vessel is nearly ready to depart: the successful accomplishment of the expedition may be greatly facilitated by suitable legislative...
Página 52 - But lo ! at last, from tenfold darkness born, Forth issues o'er the wave the weeping morn : Hail, sacred vision ! who, on orient wings, The cheering dawn of light propitious brings ; All nature smiling hail'd the vivid ray That gave her beauties to returning day, All but our ship...