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...ld not be doubted. But how admit that the con- struction of this submarine boat had escaped the public eye? For a private gentleman to keep the secret... ...of view. The Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, the Lloyd’s List, the Packet-Boat, and the Maritime and Colonial Review, all papers devoted to insurance... ...with it. “Well, Mr. Land,” asked the captain, “do you advise me to put the boats out to sea?” “No, sir,” replied Ned Land; “because we shall not take ... ...sappear? Had the Abraham Lincoln veered round? Would the captain put out a boat? Might I hope to be saved? The darkness was intense. I caught a glimps... ... as our only chance of safety was being picked up by the Abraham Lincoln’s boats, we ought to manage so as to wait for them as long as pos- sible. I r... ...e miles from us, and looked like a dark mass, hardly dis- cernible. But no boats! I would have cried out. But what good would it have been at such a d... ...some other victim of the shock sustained by the vessel? Or rather was it a boat from the frigate, that was hailing us in the darkness? Conseil made a ... ... time to lose, however. We were lying upon the back of a sort of submarine boat, which appeared (as far as I could judge) like a huge fish of steel. N... ...ainly sought an expla- nation? What kind of beings existed in this strange boat? What mechanical agent caused its prodigious speed? Daybreak appeared....

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...mpton and London, who had risen to the rank of sarang on the British India boats, but wearying of routine musters and clean clothes, had thrown up the... ... because on land we worship Shiva, we Kharvas; but at sea on the Kumpani’s boats we attend strictly to the orders of the Burra Malum [the first mate],... ...got something on his mind. You’d think that ten years in the British India boats would have knocked most of his religion out of him.” “So it has,” sai... ...ite enough rivercraft coming down adrift anyhow, without letting the stone-boats ram the piers. What have you got on the east bank that needs looking ... ...he main structure of the bridge. The concrete blocks on the fleet of stone-boats were dropped overside, where there was any depth of water, to guard t... ...ide, where there was any depth of water, to guard the piers, and the empty boats themselves were poled under the bridge down-stream. It was here that ... ...outing the language of the sea. Findlayson was more troubled for the stone-boats than any- thing else. McCartney, with his gangs, was blocking up the ... ... with his gangs, was blocking up the ends of the three doubtful spans, but boats adrift, if the flood chanced to be a high one, might endanger the gir... ...dawn. “Mother Gunga is awake! Hear!” He dipped his hand over the side of a boat and the current mumbled on it. A little wave hit the side of a pier wi...

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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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...away, Daniel DeFoe’s hard-luck character is still the standard for “growing where you’re planted.” Captured by pirates, he makes his break in a small boat and undergoes desperate adventures before winning his way back to civilization. But Crusoe proves willing to chance his luck a second time when, after sweating his way to prosperity as a planter in Brazil, he undertakes ...

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...rs. Dalloway. E. M. Forster described it as ... a strange, tragic, inspired book whose scene is a South America not found on any map and reached by a boat which would not float on any sea, an America whose spiritual boundaries touch Xanadu and Atlantis... It is absolutely unafraid... Here at last is a book which attains unity as surely as Wuthering Heights, though by a dif...

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.................................................................................................................. 12 Where Go the Boats? .................. ................................................................................................................... 20 My Bed is a Boat .................... ... adventure, to-day that we’re afloat, Wary of the weather and steering by a star? Shall it be to Africa, a-steering of the boat, To Providen... ...apples grow;— Where below another sky Parrot islands anchored lie, And, watched by cockatoos and goats, Lonely Crusoes building boats;— Where in sunsh... ...and days, And had the very best of plays; But Tom fell out and hurt his knee, So there was no one left but me. XIV Where Go the Boats? Dark brown is t... ...Golden is the sand. It flows along for ever, With trees on either hand. Green leaves a-floating, Castles of the foam, Boats of mine a-boatin... ...e valley, Away down the hill. Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore. 13 A Ch... ...h ladder and with light; O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night! 21 A Child’s Garden of V erses XXXI My Bed is a Boat My bed is like a ... ... Some yellow and some red. I called the little pool a sea; The little hills were big to me; For I am very small. I made a boat, I made a town, I...

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... overboard and drowned. Harvey is heir to a vast fortune, but his rescuers believe none of what he tells them of his background. Disko won't take the boat to port until it is full of fish, so Harvey must settle in for a season at sea. Hard, dangerous work and performing it alongside a grab-bag of characters in close quarters is a life-changing experience. And when Harvey a...

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...g Night Thought Whole Duty of Children Rain Pirate Story Foreign Lands Windy Nights Travel Singing Looking Forward A Good Play Where Go the Boats? Auntie’s Skirts The Land of Counterpane The Land of Nod My Shadow System A Good Boy Escape at Bedtime Marching Song The Cow Happy Thought The Wind Keepsake Mill Good and Bad Children Foreign Children The...

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...r your knowledge of a bargain. One might as well refuse an oar to row in a boat.’ ‘I ‘d rather risk it,’ the young man replied. ‘These guides kick the... ... resisted them in my own person by casting myself overboard. I go like the boat behind the ves- sel. You were expected yesterday, at latest this morni... ...They were composed as he sat by the roadway, on the top of hills, and in a boat crossing a dark green lake deep under wooded mountain walls: things of... ... of priceless value. It happened, that midway on the lake he perceived his boat- man about to prime a pistol to murder the mild-eyed still- ness, and ... ... him, and remained there pacing the chamber like a lion newly caged. Their boatmen were brotherly in the anticipation of provi- sion and payment. Afte... ...welldepth of the mountains, he had better be walking and climbing. Another boat paddling up the lake had been spied: solitude was not merely shared wi... ...ia Jane, when first she beheld Old England’s shores, tossing in the packet-boat on a wild Channel sea, did say it and think it, for it is in the famil... ...our Island all the darker because Henrietta had induced her to talk on the boat of her mountain home and her last morning there for the walk away with... ...em such a contrast as might be shown if we could imagine the Lethean ferry-boatload brought sharp against Pomona’s lapful. In addition to the plucked ...

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...ng. Lumber his trade, a sawmill his business, skilled hands creating sailing boats of wood and a summer house for garden fun, children's delights pour... ...ficult, but always she gives of her best, proudly wearing the school's straw boater with her striking, striped summer dress. Hockey, riding, tennis, b... ...t's no big deal after all! Football and swimming amuse but building cars and boats and trains completely absorbs, while at school science lessons ent...

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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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...Table of Contents: LYRICAL 3 -- CROSSWAYS 5 -- THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD, 5 -- THE SAD SHEPHERD, 6 -- THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES, 7 -- ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA, 8 -- THE INDIAN UPON GOD, 11 -- THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, 11 -- THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES, 12 -- EPHEMERA, 13 -- THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL, 13 -- THE STOLEN CHILD, 16 -- TO AN ISLE ...

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...PHERD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA . . . .... ...articulate moan Among her wildering whirls, forgetting him. THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES ‘WHAT do you make so fair and bright?’ ‘I make the cloa... ... In all men’s sight.’ ‘What do you build with sails for flight?’ ‘I build a boat for Sorrow: O swift on the seas all day and night Saileth the rover So... ...they take the upper road Or stay content on the low, Rower bent in his row boat 326 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS Or weaver bent at his loom, Hor... ...ol de rol de rolly O. A great black ragged bird appeared when I was in the boat; Some twenty feet from tip to tip had it stretched rightly out, With fl... ...g it made a great display, But I never stopped to question, what could the boatman say But fol de rol de rolly O. Now I am in the public house and lea... ...their pride, And murmured snatches of delight; And on the shores were many boats With bending sterns and bending bows, And carven figures on their prow... ... the island bands. O patrick! for a hundred years We went a fishing in long boats With bending sterns and bending bows, And carven figures on their prow... ... daily meat; Who when night thickens are afloat On dappled skins in a glass boat, Far out under a windless sky; While over them birds of Aengus fly, And...

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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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...ower and pal- ace, and that busy shining scene of the Thames swarming with boats and barges, filled his heart with pleasure and cheerful- ness—as well... ... the fortune to be under fire for the first time—and under water, too,—his boat being swamped in the surf in Toros Bay, where the troops landed. The d... ...iefly here. When our fleet came within view of Cadiz, our commander sent a boat with a white flag and a couple of officers to the Governor of Cadiz, D...

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...rolls. The library tried to acquire copies of all writings, sending agents far and wide to acquire texts. Scrolls were bought, copied and stolen. Boats visiting Alexandria were required to lend any writings on board to the library for the purpose of copying; some were returned. Tragically, the Library of Alexandria was destroyed by mobs, sometime in the 3rd or 4th c...

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...ew York to Los Angeles.  The 1,103-mile Grand Canal ‗s locks could lift boats up into land more than 150 feet above sea level. Detailed account...

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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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.... warship in Aden, the USS The Sullivans.The attempt failed when the small boat, overloaded with explosives, sank.The operatives salvaged their equipm... ...98 and 1999 in prepar- ing to attack a ship off the coast of Y emen with a boatload of explosives.They had originally targeted a commercial vessel, sp... ...ack a warship in the port of Aden, but the attempt failed when the suicide boat sank. More than nine months later, on October 12, 2000, al Qaeda opera... ...han nine months later, on October 12, 2000, al Qaeda operatives in a small boat laden with explosives attacked a U.S. Navy destroyer, the USS Cole.The... ...tan, Nibras and Khamri saw their chance. They piloted the explosives-laden boat alongside the USS Cole, made friendly gestures to crew members, and de... ...as immediately communicated on the Manhattan dis- patch channel by an FDNY boat on the Hudson River; but to our knowledge, no one at the site received... ...as early as the NYPD, as its fall had been immediately reported by an FDNY boat on a dispatch channel. Because of internal breakdowns within the depar... ...ehicles, namely truck bombs, the leap to the use of other vehicles such as boats (the Cole attack) or planes is not far-fetched. Y et these scenarios ... ... Agency. By restoring funding across the CIA, a rising tide would lift all boats.They also stressed the synergy between improvements of every part of ...