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...e that the world revolves around them. So there’s no sense in rocking the boat too much.’ Theo’s head span. Only yesterday he had felt utterly alone... ...Theo and Bozo then saw a collage of scenes: long journeys by horse and by boat, money changing hands and the crystal ball passing from clan to clan.... ...it put out the f re, but the ship began to take in water. ‘Say, “Bye, bye boat,” ’ a new but familiar voice hissed. Theo turned to see Marv standing... ... had gone quite mad. Theo felt a piece of his heart crack in agony as the boat pulled away from the ship. He screamed in anguish. The Bloon seemed o... ...on there was nothing to be seen but the driving rain. So in the midst of a boat full of friends and sailors, Theo was alone in his quest for the f rs... ...s an idea f ew in one ear. ‘So that’s how you did the banana trick on the boat….’ ‘I had some help, yes. This isn’t going to be easy to explain.’ ‘Th...

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...g to fight with him, man to man in his shirt, with Rapier and dagger in a boat. The said Lord of Langey, following his storie addeth that the said A... ...t-pot, where-hence shall Sooner or later drawns lots fall, And to deaths boat for aye enthrall. And by consequence, if she makes us affeard, it is a... .... Pirro the Philosopher, finding himselfe upon a very tempestuous day in a boat, shewed them whom he perceived to be most affrighted through feare, a... ...Romans paid the water-men their fare or due so soone as they came into the boat, whereas we pay it when they set us on shore. -- dum as exigitur, du... ...by swimming may a man save himselfe out of his bodie, as out of a leaking boat: for it is feare to die, and not desire to live, which keepes a foole... ... they farre distant be, at hand, And hilles and fields doe seeme unto our boate to flie, Which we drive by our boate as we doe passe thereby, ... ...ey utterly refused, and so hoisted sailes, but she leaping into a fishers boate that she immediately hired, followed him aloofe from the further sho... ...lesse could in my youth) to ride either in coach or litter, or to go in a boat; and both in the citty and country I hate all manner of riding but a ... ...ther. By the same easie gentle motion which the oares give, convaying the boat under us, I wot not how I feel both my head intoxicated and my stomac...

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...ho had risen to the rank of serang on the British India 7 Rudyard Kipling 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],... ...as been delay. Has the Sahib forgotten last autumn’s flood, when the stone-boats were sunk without warning – or only a half-day’s warning?” “Yes, but ... ...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... ... enough river-craft coming down adrift anyhow, without let- ting the stone-boats ram the piers. What have you got on the east bank that needs looking ... ... main struc- ture 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... ... 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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...llow-men. My least solitary moments were those in which I pushed off in my boat, at evening, towards the centre of the lake; it seemed to me that the ... ...e Lifted V eil of my life. I used to do as Jean Jacques did—lie down in my boat and let it glide where it would, while I looked up at the departing gl... ...and in Charles’s rare holidays we went up the Saleve together, or took the boat to V evay, while I listened dreamily to the monologues in which he unf...

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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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...ome ashore as soon as there was water on the floe. It was a wild night for boat service; and I felt some alarm mingle with my curiosity as I reflected... ...ed. Some time before eleven, while the tide was still danger- ously low, a boat’s lantern appeared close in shore; and, my attention being thus awaken... ... there is a church in a hollow; a miserable haven in the rocks, where many boats have been lost as they returned from fishing; two or three score of s... ...e wood. “Do not flatter yourself,” said he. “Then you were not in the same boat with the old gentleman; now you are. It’s the floe for all of us, mark... ... open grate. Close by the islet a schooner yacht lay to, and a well-manned boat was pulling vigorously for the shore. “The Red Earl!” I cried. “The Re... ...u can annoy me now.” He began to walk forward across the links to meet the boat, and I followed a step or two behind. In front of the pavilion I pause... ... shall try to get her to the minister’s at Graden Wester.” The prow of the boat here grated on the beach, and a sailor jumped ashore with a line in hi... ...hoved off and leaped into the bows himself. Northmour took the tiller; the boat rose to the waves, and the oars between the thole-pins sounded crisp a...

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...the misery of having to provide for me—bonnets and all. We are in the same boat, and you shan’t turn me overboard. ’ ‘But if I were to die, what would... ...ling that Dr Fillgrave and Mr Rerechild were accustomed to row in the same boat, and she was not altogether free from fear that there might be an outb... ...ir companion except on such open occasions as those of cricket-matches and boat-races. Boys, in this respect, are at least as exclusive as men, and un... ...panions at school who were glad enough to go up to Maidenhead with him his boat; but there was not one among them who would have talked to him of his ...

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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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...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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...dy sends adventures in his master’s ships, when he had better be sailing mimic boats upon a mill pond. Another figure in the scene is the outward boun... ...the image was unreal, she turned elsewhere for better pastime. She made little boats out of birch bark, and freighted them with snailshells, and sent ...

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...Some time after Three Men in a Boat, George, Harris and Jerome decided to go on a cycling holiday through Germany.This relaxed and gently humorous story of the three friends wandering in and around the Black Forest is coloured by anecdotes, odd tales and J...

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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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...hom I called to take my place, in stowing himself snugly away under the long boat, for a nap. That was a sufficient look out, he thought, for a fine ... ...this I do not know, but I am quite sure that I did not give the true hoarse, boatswain call of ‘‘A a ll ha a a nds! up anchor, a ho oy!’’ In a short t... ...ive and superintending officer, is the chief mate. He is first lieutenant, boatswain, sailing master, and quarter master. The captain tells him what... ...ne, and all other stuffs that they need in their work, and has charge of the boatswain’s locker, which includes serving boards, marline spikes, etc., ... ...e sail, are quite fast, and, strange as it may seem, are trusted as good sea boats. We saw several, with from one to three men in each, boldly putting... ... sending the water forward, he was left high and dry at the side of the long boat, still holding on to his tin pot, which had now nothing in it but sa... ...t the fore top gallant sail and flying jib; and the old whaler—for such, his boats and short sail showed him to be—felt a little ashamed, and shook th... ... sail, and made signal for us to heave to. About half past seven their whale boat came alongside, and Captain Job Terry sprang on board, a man known ... ...y? I thought everybody knew Job Terry,’’ said a green hand, who came in the boat, to me, when I asked him about his captain. He was indeed a singula...

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...This book with two titles, Three Men and a Maid in the USA and The Girl on the Boat in the UK is a typical PG Wodehouse romantic comedy, involving, at various times: a disastrous talent quest, a lawyer with a revolver, a bulldog with a mind of his own and a suit of armour! The maid, or marriageable youn...

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...e steamers did all of the upstream busi ness, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steame... ...lculating to go ashore there for a spree, maybe, or any way they would send boats ashore to buy whiskey or fresh meat or something. Jim had a wonderf... ... juba, and the rest turned themselves loose on a regular old fashioned keel boat break down. They couldn’t keep that up very long with out getting w... ... a going on like that,—but the men had got enough. They started to get out a boat to take him ashore and lynch him, but he grabbed the little child al... ... famous for his quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, “S t e a m boat a comin’!” and the scene changes! The town drunkard stirs, the clerk... ...er, the wharf. Assembled there, the people fasten their eyes upon the coming boat as upon a wonder they are seeing for the first time. And the boat i... ...; the paddle boxes are gorgeous with a picture or with gilded rays above the boat’s name; the boiler deck, the hurricane deck, and the texas deck are ... ...is greatness. He would always manage to have a rusty bolt to scrub while his boat tarried at our town, and he would sit on the inside guard and scrub ... ...it, where we could all see him and envy him and loathe him. And whenever his boat was laid up he would come home and swell around the town in his blac...

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...ags, indeed! Hi! you pilot man there! lend me all the sails for that whale-boat.’ A fez-crowned head bobbed up in the stern-sheets, divided itself int... ... his clumsy sewing, while Dick chuckled over the sketch. Some twenty whale-boats were nuzzling a sand- 15 Rudyard Kipling bank which was dotted with ... ...oldiery of half a dozen corps, bathing or washing their clothes. A heap of boat-rollers, commissariat-boxes, sugar-bags, and flour—and small-arm-ammun... ...gs, and flour—and small-arm-ammunition-cases showed where one of the whale-boats had been compelled to unload hastily; and a regimental carpenter was ... ...allowance of white lead, to plaster up the sun-parched gaping seams of the boat herself. ‘First the bloomin’ rudder snaps,’ said he to the world in ge... ...m was falling and the next few miles would be no light thing for the whale-boats to over- pass. The desert ran down almost to the banks, where, among ... ...ps was encamped. No man dared even for a day lose touch of the slow-moving boats; there had been no fighting for weeks past, and throughout all that t... ... movements. The duty of that particular river-column was to keep the whale-boats afloat in the water, to avoid trampling on the villagers’ crops when ... ...r, to avoid trampling on the villagers’ crops when the gangs ‘tracked’ the boats with lines thrown from midstream, to get as much sleep and food as wa...

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... their condition, and proposed to row them out to their ship in the little boat which he kept moored at the bottom of a flight of steps. With some hes... ...th great force; bulky barges floated down swiftly escorted by tugs; police boats shot past everything; the wind went with the current. The open rowing... ...oats shot past everything; the wind went with the current. The open rowing-boat in which they sat bobbed and curtseyed across the line of traffic. In ... ...cross, where now he took scarcely any. He seemed to recall an age when his boat, moored among rushes, carried deli- cate feet across to lawns at Rothe... ...and the dark flag which the breeze blew out squarely behind. As the little boat sidled up to the steamer, and the old man shipped his oars, he remarke... ...hey heard of the Euphrosyne, but heard also that she was primarily a cargo boat, and only took pas- sengers by special arrangement, her business being... ...h compliments and pleasure on both sides, and here, a week later, came the boat rowing up to the ship in the dusk with the Dalloways on board of it; i... ...stiffly for a second before he followed his wife down the ship’s side. The boat separating from the vessel made off towards the land, and for some min... ...eant over the rail, watching. Once Mrs. Dalloway turned and waved; but the boat steadily grew smaller and smaller until it ceased to rise and fall, an...

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...valids; parties, waiting on the pier for parties who had come by the steam-boat; and nothing was to be heard but talking, laughing, 71 Charles Dicken... ...ning back with the waves after them; and, now and then, a little sail- ing-boat either departed with a gay and talkative cargo of passengers, or retur... ...his left arm. It appeared from the statement of Mr. Percy Noakes, that the boat belonged to the Gen- eral Steam Navigation Company, and was then lying... ...rter-past nine, and the ugly face of Mr. Alexander Briggs looking over the boat’s side, and grinning, as if in derision of his fruitless attempts to m... ...be then run- ning down, he would walk leisurely to Strand-lane, and have a boat to the Custom-house. He dressed himself, took a hasty apology for a br... ...ter, he thought he had never felt so im- portant or so happy in his life. ‘Boat, sir?’ cried one of the three watermen who were mopping out their boat... ...f the three watermen who were mopping out their boats, and all whistling. ‘Boat, sir?’ ‘No, ’ replied Mr. Percy Noakes, rather sharply; for the inquir... ...Noakes affected to disregard these represen- tations, and stepped into the boat, which the old man, by dint of scrambling, and shoving, and grating, h... ... up to the causeway. ‘Shove her off!’ cried Mr. Percy Noakes, and away the boat glided down the river; Mr. Percy Noakes seated on the recently mopped ...

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...ed the laughter remorselessly out of me. They have been trying Frank’s new boat, Mr. Pollingray, and they’ve upset it. Oh! oh’ and again there was the... ...d rolled her body like a possessed one. ‘Why don’t you come in through the boat-house?’ she asked when she had mastered her fit. ‘ Ah!’ said the vicar... ...ly absurd you are, Mr. Amble!’ exclaimed his wife, ‘when you know that the boat-house is locked, and that the boat was lying under the camshot when yo... ...amshot had failed. Happily at this moment I caught sight of Master Frank’s boat, which had floated, bottom upwards, against a projecting mud-bank of f... ...flower, actuated by a motive that I cannot account for. The vicar held the boat firmly against the camshot, while I, at the imminent risk of joining t... ...r mouth) hoisted the lady in, and the river with her. From the seat of the boat she stood sufficiently high to project the step towards land without p... ...t could have been more exemplary than Mrs. Amble’s. I had got her into the boat—a good boat, a capital boat—but getting in myself, we overturned. The ... ...ative, and a constant pro- pulsion of my friend’s arm, I drew him into the boat, and thence projected him up to the level with his wife, who had perha... ... with Alice. The fair and pleas- ant damsel made a clever descent into the boat, and having seated herself, she began to twirl the scull in the rowloc...

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... horizon indented at empty intervals with wooden spires, the masts of lonely boats, the chimneys of dirty ‘works,’ over a brackish expanse of anomalou... ...d only an hour or two more in Boston (he was to travel, economically, by the boat) and must devote the time to his business. She appealed to his South... ... evaporation of this pleasing hypothesis made him feel like a man in an open boat, at sea, who should just have parted with his last rag of canvas. I ... ...s in the ornamental water, and they even considered the question of taking a boat for half an hour, Ransom saying that they needed this to make their ... ...great many excursions on the water. She was de 302 The Bostonians voted to boating and an ardent fisherwoman, and they used to pull out into the bay ... ... just wanted to get toned up a little by Miss Tarrant. Sometimes, out in the boat, when she looked at him in vague, sociable silence, while she waited... ...on’t mean I am going to move out of my chair.’ ‘Mr. Ransom has been out in a boat with me several times. I have been showing him how to cast a line,’ ... ...d developed suddenly into an embarkation for the day. They had gone out in a boat together; one of the village worthies, from whom small craft were to... ...age with that information. She had not understood whether they had taken the boatman with them. Even when the information came (and it came at a momen...