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...alling silent all together we gazed at the sights of the river. A P . & O. boat passed bound down. “One gets jolly good dinners on board these ships,”... ... On one or two occasions when pass- ing under stern I had detected from my boat a round arm in the act of tilting a watering pot, and the bowed sleek ... ...ng of four children belonging to her. They peeped over the rail at passing boats and occasionally dropped vari- ous objects into them. Thus, sometime ... ... in Japan for a fair price. He intended to return home, to Bremen, by mail boat, second 14 Falk class, with Mrs. Hermann and the children. He told me... ...sides, he was a composite creature. Not a man-horse, it is true, but a man-boat. He lived on board his tug, which was always dashing up and down the r... ...ines of the bows cleaving the muddy water of the river. Separated from his boat to me at least he seemed incom- plete. The tug herself without his hea... ...osition. And yet he fussed over the prospect of that voyage home in a mail boat like a sedentary grocer who has made up his mind to 20 Falk see the w... ... Mr. Falk. Rice and a little fish he buys for a few cents from the fishing boats outside is what he lives on. Y ou would hardly credit it—eh? A white ... ...nded for repairs, had been left behind. Now he would have to hire a native boat to take all this out to the ship. It would cost five or six dollars pe...

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...s, sometimes encamping in the woods, sometimes crossing the lakes in small boats. Many 27 Yo n g e ladies were among them, and their summer life had ... ...of the Aegean sea, the land army would cross the Hellespont on a bridge of boats lashed together, and march southwards into Greece. The only hope of a... ...e perishing around them, this brave shepherdess embarked alone in a little boat, and guiding it down the stream, landed beyond the Frankish camp, and ... ...ad no means of obstructing the pas- sage of the river, so that a convoy of boats could easily pen- etrate into the town, and at any rate they looked u... ...d bearing caused them to be allowed to enter and return in safety; but the boat version seems the more probable, since a single boat on a broad river ... ... to the banks of the Reuss, where there was no bridge, and only one single boat to carry the whole across. The first to cross were the Emperor with on... ...ten, in the dark autumn eve- nings, would guide in a whole fleet of little boats, loaded with bread and meat for the starving men within the city. The... ...at not even the two Abbeville sailors could enter it, without having their boats crushed and sunk by the great stones that the mangonels launched upon... ...gust, how- ever, the whole fleet again appeared, and the King, in a little boat, directed the landing of his men, led by his sons, the Infantes Duarte...

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...body heeded the disturbance—it was a Town and Gown row. The row arose at a boat-race. The Town boat (manned by eight stout Bargees, with the redoubted... ...ds arose regarding the dispute. After returning from Granchester, when the boats pulled back to Christchurch meadows, the disturbance between the Town... ... Exeter) had a couple of rounds with Billy Butt, the bow-oar of the Bargee boat. V avasour of Brazenose was engaged with a pow- erful butcher, a well-... ...ts, and they retired to their several col- leges for refection. During the boat-race, a gentleman pulling in a canoe, and smoking a narghilly, had att... ...tracted no ordinary attention. He rowed about a hundred yards ahead of the boats in the race, so that he could have a good view of that curious pastim... ...ht-oars neared him, with a few rapid strokes of his flash- ing paddles his boat shot a furlong ahead; then he would wait, surveying the race, and send... ...ranger of the canoe seemed to be the individual in question. No wonder the boat, that all admired so, could compete with any that ever was wrought by ... ...h any that ever was wrought by Cambridge artificer or Putney workman. That boat—slim, shining, and shooting through the water like a pike after a smal... ...marvel. When his head was taken off, the Father of Believers presented the boat to Rafael Mendoza. It was Rafael Mendoza that saved the Turkish monarc...

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...he one has sacrificed his crew; the other brings back his seamen in a cock-boat, and has lost the ship. I believe there are not many sea-captains who ... ...ed ashore there one 49 Lay Morals early morning, there sat with me in the boat two sisters, bidding farewell (in humble imitation of Damien) to the l... ..., it is my belief that nature would have triumphed even in you; and as the boat drew but a little nearer, and you beheld the stairs crowded with abomi...

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...her moorings, and the Aberdeen men, pick in hand, had seized upon the only boats, and he must stoop and lap sea- water before his tongue could utter a... ... by the pier. The same day we visited the shores of the isle in the ship’s boats; rowed deep into Fiddler’s Hole, sounding as we went; and having take... ...ere much together, bathing, clambering on the boul- ders, trying to sail a boat and spinning round instead in the 58 Robert Louis Stevenson oily whir... ...rth remark. The man or the hour had not yet come; but some day, I think, a boat shall put off from the Queen’s Ferry, fraught with a dear cargo, and s... ...ther time nor tide *Since the above was written I have tried to launch the boat with my own hands in Kidnapped. Some day, perhaps, I may try a rattle ...

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...Pete Erickson has long dreamed of sailing a small boat to Alaska. When he retires, he acts on his dream. It turns into a nightmare when his boyhood rival's jealousy turns into venom. Slen Kuskitt has become a drug lord. He has temporarily abandoned a 42-foot ketch. In it h...

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... Ansel. Teeth and all. We never saw him again. “No sir, he disappeared complete. The last thing we saw of him was his heels. So I’ll tie you to the boat, Marty. We don’t want to lose you.” He took a length of rope an inch thick, wrapped it around Marty’s middle and snubbed it off to a stanchion with a bowline knot. “Now that will keep you safe in the boat, anyhow,” he s...

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...opts as a factual skeleton the historical puzzle of Francisco Pizarro's conquering the mightiest empire of South America in one evening with a single boat load of men. Solving the puzzle, he then fleshes in fiction a working model for the most important, yet most neglected of Orwell's features, the central secret of Oceania. Blaire's conclusion: Any society which is founde...

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...peedboat in its escape. “Hope he makes it, whatever he’s been doing.” shouts Stef in excitement. “Probably speeding and scaring the locals in a boat like that.” laughs Simon. “Wrong time of day to be doing any smuggling.” confirms Stef, seeing Nicola behind them he asks; “Did you see that Nic?” “Don’t see what all the excitement is about; apart from a boat esca...

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...awlings would find them around noon. "Thank God, you know how to handle this boat," Alex said, as Brand skillfully maneuvered the sails, always tac...

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...PART I: UP AGAINST THE DRAFT 1. Steward brings his 1-A letter to the boat club 2. Brandt and Morris argue about the Vietnam war 3. O’Rourke steps in to bring the crew on task 4. Morris offers Steward a way out of the draft 5. Brandt asks about his dad’s experience in World War Two 6. Bran...

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...to start our outreach program. Our first destination was a jail. We took a boat, across the crystal clear blue waters, to the other side of the city. ...