Nights at SeaN. C. Nafis, 1840 - 147 pàgines |
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Pàgina 14
Old Sailor. not to notice Mr. Savage , the boatswain ; Mr. Blueblazes , the gunner ; and Mr. Bracebit , the carpenter ... mates , midshipmen , and assistant - surgeons , there was a very fair sprinkling , — the demons of the orlop , each ...
Old Sailor. not to notice Mr. Savage , the boatswain ; Mr. Blueblazes , the gunner ; and Mr. Bracebit , the carpenter ... mates , midshipmen , and assistant - surgeons , there was a very fair sprinkling , — the demons of the orlop , each ...
Pàgina 15
... boatswain's call summons his mates to their duty ; a loud piping succeeds , and " Reef topsails ahoy ! " is bellowed forth from lungs that might have been cased with sheet - iron , so hoarse is the appeal . And see ! before you can slue ...
... boatswain's call summons his mates to their duty ; a loud piping succeeds , and " Reef topsails ahoy ! " is bellowed forth from lungs that might have been cased with sheet - iron , so hoarse is the appeal . And see ! before you can slue ...
Pàgina 24
... boatswain's mate , who now made a fourth in the party . " The most lovely women in the world , eh ? Why , Lord love your foolish heart ! I wouldn't give my Mrs. Sheavehole for all that Italy could stow , take it from stem to starn ...
... boatswain's mate , who now made a fourth in the party . " The most lovely women in the world , eh ? Why , Lord love your foolish heart ! I wouldn't give my Mrs. Sheavehole for all that Italy could stow , take it from stem to starn ...
Pàgina 25
... boatswain's mate . " But , that's just like you jollies ! -all for paint and pipe - clay . Now , Suke's as handsome to me as ever she was ; and when I sees her like an ould hen clucking over the young uns , I'm blessed if I don't love ...
... boatswain's mate . " But , that's just like you jollies ! -all for paint and pipe - clay . Now , Suke's as handsome to me as ever she was ; and when I sees her like an ould hen clucking over the young uns , I'm blessed if I don't love ...
Pàgina 26
... boatswain's mate , without heeding the ser- geant's observation , " I has a bit of a spree ashore at Dock , in course ; but soon arter we goes round to Portsmouth . I axes for long leave ; and as I'd al'ays done my duty to Muster ...
... boatswain's mate , without heeding the ser- geant's observation , " I has a bit of a spree ashore at Dock , in course ; but soon arter we goes round to Portsmouth . I axes for long leave ; and as I'd al'ays done my duty to Muster ...
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
a-head aboard afore alongside amongst Andy arms arter axes beautiful Begaud bless'd blessed blow'd blowed boat boatswain's mate breeze Calonne captain claps consarn countenance craft Davy Jones deck devil exclaimed eyes fellow fore forecastle French Frenchman frigate going grog hail hand Hawser head heard heart heave Hippolito honour hould Howsomever inquired Jack Sheavehole Joe Nighthead Julia King Herod lady laughing lieutenant long gun look Lord Eustace lordship mayhap messmates mind minutes Miss Leffler Monsieur Leffler mulatto mummies Muster Handsail negroes never night Nugent O'Brien officer ould chap ounly passed pinnace Port-au-Prince pray pretty prisoner prize responded returned round sail Sam Slick sarved says schooner sergeant Shauginsea ship shipmates shot shouted skipper soon soul Spankaway squall starn stood stranger Susette taffrail tell there's thing thought Toulon uttered voice warn't whilst white squall woice yarn young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 50 - To plague the inventor; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Pàgina 64 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Pàgina 27 - It's oae of two things — a parting blush o' the sun, or a gathering squall o' the night," returned the boatswain's mate ; " but we've no reason to care about it — 'cause, why? we're all as snug as possible. Well, shipmates, to get on with my yarn : — when we'd run a league or two, out of Portsmouth, we hove to at a victualling port, and I spied a signal for good cheer hanging out aloft; and so, without any bother, I boards 'em for a reg'lar stiff Nor'-wester, more nor halfand-half, and says...
Pàgina 26 - em see we arn't been sarving the king or hammering the French for nothin'. And, mayhap, thinks I, they arn't never got too much to grub ; so I gets a bag, and shoves in a couple of legs o' mutton and a whole shole of turnips, a full bladder of rum, and, as I knew the old uns loved cat-lap, there was a stowage of sugar and tea, with a bottle o...
Pàgina 24 - Englishwoman; and none o' your skinny, half-starved, sliding-gunter-legged, spindle-shank sinoreas for me !" " You manifest a shocking want of taste, shipmate," returned the serjeant, proudly, and bringing himself to a perpendicular. " The Italian women are considered the most lovely women in the world." " Tell that to the marines, ould chap !" chimed in a boatswain's mate, who now made a fourth in the party. " The most lovely women in the world, eh?
Pàgina 24 - I loves to see a good sunset," rejoined the other ; " and I never see'd finer than what I've see'd in these "here seas. It's some'at strange to my thinking, though, messmate, that God A'mighty should have made this part o' the world so beautiful, and yet have put such d — lousy, beggarly rascals to live in it ! Look at them there Italians, with no more pluck about 'em than this here cat-head!" " Nay, shipmates," said the serjeant of marines, who had just joined them,
Pàgina 15 - Pipe down !" draws forth a lark-like chirping of the calls, and in a few seconds the whole have disappeared; even the hammock-men to the young gentlemen have fetched their duplicate, and the cloths are rolled up for the night. The gallant Nelson had his coffin publicly exhibited in his cabin ; but what of that ? the seaman constantly sleeps in his coffin, for such is his hammock should he die at sea.
Pàgina 17 - Like the genius of his country, 'tis ever bold and free ; And he will prove, •where'er it flies, we're sovereigns of the sea." " Very fair, very fair, Mr. Nugent," said his lordship ;
Pàgina 84 - O'Brien was delighted. His maternal uncle was a general in the French service, whose father had left his country, Scotland, through persecution, when young, and had settled somewhere in France...
Pàgina 33 - ... conflobergasticationment ; there stood the skipper, with a bright steel pen in his hand as looked like a doctor's lanchet, and there, close by his side, upon her beam-ends, laid that lovely young creatur, the sparkling jewels in her dress mocking the wretchedness of her countenance. " Are you ready ?" says he ; and his onkivered eye rolled round and round, and seemed to send out sparks through the friction. —