Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 222William Blackwood, 1927 |
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... ship were in in this way , the lighters had evidence . It was still dark , but been loaded . Now for the people were moving about on human freight . Down in the deck , even the passengers , pre- cage , twenty minutes of sway- paring for ...
... ship were in in this way , the lighters had evidence . It was still dark , but been loaded . Now for the people were moving about on human freight . Down in the deck , even the passengers , pre- cage , twenty minutes of sway- paring for ...
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... ship staggered , bade him good - night and de- heeled over , and with a thun- scended down the narrow com- derous roar a huge wave swept panion into the one and only the deck just above us , the cabin , in which my three com- remnants ...
... ship staggered , bade him good - night and de- heeled over , and with a thun- scended down the narrow com- derous roar a huge wave swept panion into the one and only the deck just above us , the cabin , in which my three com- remnants ...
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... ship floundered burst upon us . " It's only a bad squall . It will be all right soon , " he main- tained doggedly . panion . I leapt up the steps and pushed open the hatch . " Here it- Bang ! and the hatch shut with a slap and knocked ...
... ship floundered burst upon us . " It's only a bad squall . It will be all right soon , " he main- tained doggedly . panion . I leapt up the steps and pushed open the hatch . " Here it- Bang ! and the hatch shut with a slap and knocked ...
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... ship , stout henchman that he was , to see how we were faring . 66 this . Valdo , we must get out of We must take to the boats . " " No hay , señor . " " There are none ? " I queried . They had been smashed to matchwood , and our last ...
... ship , stout henchman that he was , to see how we were faring . 66 this . Valdo , we must get out of We must take to the boats . " " No hay , señor . " " There are none ? " I queried . They had been smashed to matchwood , and our last ...
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... ship , our hold on life itself . To - morrow , perhaps , the sun would be shining . Should we be basking in its life - giving rays , or would the moon this very night leer on our cold lifeless bodies ? Perish the thought ! We'd fight ...
... ship , our hold on life itself . To - morrow , perhaps , the sun would be shining . Should we be basking in its life - giving rays , or would the moon this very night leer on our cold lifeless bodies ? Perish the thought ! We'd fight ...
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Page 152 - Horrible, hairy, human, with paws like hands in prayer, Making his supplication rose Adam-zad the Bear! I looked at the swaying shoulders, at the paunch's swag and swing, And my heart was touched with pity for the monstrous, pleading thing.
Page 283 - How then shall any man, who has a genius for history equal to the best of the ancients, be able to undertake such a work with spirit and cheerfulness, when he considers that he will be read with pleasure but a very few years, and, in an age or two, shall hardly be understood without an interpreter?
Page 282 - ... that our language is extremely imperfect ; that its daily ' improvements are by no means in proportion to v its daily corruptions ; that the pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied abuses and absurdities ; and that in many instances it offends against every part of grammar.
Page 285 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style, which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy...
Page 59 - I heard three sensible middle-aged men, when the Scotch were said to be at Stamford, and actually were at Derby, talking of hiring a chaise to go to Caxton (a place in the high-road) to see the Pretender and Highlanders as they passed.
Page 516 - So sincere and so undisguised, that no mind with a spark of generosity would ever think of hurting him, he lies so open to injury. But so indolent, that if he cannot overcome this habit, all his good qualities will signify nothing at all.
Page 285 - The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into another without imparting something of its native idiom...
Page 849 - They do not preach that their God will rouse them a little before the nuts work loose.
Page 60 - The populace, at first, did not interrupt him, conceiving our army to be near the town ; but as soon as they knew that it would not arrive till the evening, they surrounded him in a tumultuous manner, with the intention of taking him prisoner, alive or dead.
Page 155 - Westminster Hall ; for many people think, if once they have fetched a warrant from a justice, they have given earnest to follow the suit, though otherwise the matter be so mean that the next night's sleep would have bound both parties to the peace, and made them as good friends as ever before.