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...entres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three levels of darkness that the protagonist, Marlow, encounters: the darkness of the Congo wilderness, the darknes...

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...-era America, a rogue pilot risks all to bring down a gang of rocket pack raiders with "The Rocket Molly Syndicate." Captain Tony Lagarto's flying boat is hijacked by a lunatic Vinlander demanding transport to a place that doesn't exist in "Storming Shangri-La." Retro adventure awaits fans of dieselpunk, sci-fi, ray-gun gothic, and pulp magazines. Download if you dar...

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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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... It made her lightheaded with its beauty; the river, wide and studded with boats, the great blue bowl of the sky arching above it, and all around th... ...n the direction of her pointing finger. “Look, Ronan, see all the pretty boats.” The puffs from the fluted stacks of the riverboats were like nu... ...organ. In the last week, she’d spent many a solitary hour here watching the boats, wondering where they were headed and who was on them. A white s... ...ogether. Palms up, thumbs out, she moved them in little arcs toward him. “Boat.” Ronan beamed. He knew the sign and repeated it. River was mor... ... an apple. He scrambled up the window ledge to eat it while he watched the boats on the river. “What did he say?” “I couldn’t decipher all of it... ...Following the instructions in Falkner’s letter, they made arrangements for a boat at Port Magee. But the weather would not cooperate. Somewhere eig... ...p her mind occupied for a while. The gulls swooped and screamed around the boat as they put the brooding ruins of Skellig Michael behind them. “H... ...lack, brooding clouds that blotted out the sky settled lower, smothering the boat like a shroud. “There it is, Carr Bearnach!” Bridey shouted. Th... ...n spotted. What now, Burke?” Burke, the taciturn captain and owner of the boat, killed the sputtering engine. “It appears we ain’t to be invited ...

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... have drawn a pair of (ieuo«a or a jack high. In tha traok moot did (^roen boat Kelley? No! The Dean wouldirt lot him." After dilating on IDH'.l's pro... ...ave been built under his supervision. Three of these bo8|)itals have motor boats and r.nollier is now under construction for" the fourth. Besides thes... ...amatown Station HenryWandless WITH Kinsley t. Blake TAILORS 3 TramontPlaoa,Boatan at Bamim' LARKIN, U/>e Tailor Mr. George McCann, repre- sentative, w... ...liamstown Station HenryWandless WITH KiRsiey& S!ak@ TAILORS 3 TramontPiaoB,Boatoti at Bamlm' LARKIN, T5he Tailor Mr. George McCann, repre- sentative, ... ...MSTOWN, - MASS. HenryWandless WITH Kinsley iu Blake TAILORS 3 TremoniPlaoB,BoatOH at Bomla' Imported Ktnematical Models A recent addition of about Gf-... ...d Tires Storage, Repairs^ Supplies, Charging, G)mpressed Air Mullins Steel Boats PITTSFIELD, MASS. Adjoining Hotel VendelL HOTEL EMPIRE Broadway and 6... ...STATION Storage, Repairs, Supplies, Charging, Compressed Air Mullins Steel Boats PITTSFIELD, MASS. Adjoining Hotel Wendell- HOTEL EMPIRE Broadway and ... ...Tires ' Storage, Repairs, Supplies, Charging, Compressed Air Mullins Steel Boats FITTSFIELD, MASS. Adjoining Hotel Wendell. HOTEL EMPIRE Broadway and ... ...d Tices Storage, Repairs, Supplies/ Charging, G)mprcssed Air Mullins Steel Boats PITTSFIELD, MASS. Adfolniog Hotel Wendell. HOTEL EMPIRE Broadway and ...

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...spread that I am coming to Vaikom agitation to lead. When I reached Vaikom by boat, the police Commissioner and Tahslidar greeted us. We were infor...

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... to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray; to the broken boat stranded on a desolate coast; to the cold and ghastly moon glancing th...

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... been freed by Smith; the sailor Bonadventure Pencroff (who is addressed only by his surname, but his Christian name, Bonadventure, is given to their boat; in other translations, he is also known as Pencroft); his protégé Harbert Brown (called Herbert in some translations), a young boy whom Pencroff raises as his own after the death of his father (Pencroff's former captain...

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... earth and gravel sur- faces Inland waterways: 14,300 km, navigable by river boats Pipelines: crude oil, 3,585 km; refined products, 1,350 km; natural... ...stead offers anchorage offshore from Alofi, from where servicing is by small boat Airfields: 1 total, 1 usable with permanent-surface runway of 1,650 ... ...98 Poland Communications Railroads: none Highways: 6.4 km dirt roads Ports: boat harbor and jetty at Bounty Bay Airfields: none Telecommunications: 2... ...highways Ports: West Bank none (landlocked); Gaza Strip facilities for small boats to service Gaza Airfields: West Bank 2 total, 2 usable with permane...

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...lder than his years. When the trawler reached Trieste, he got his pay, fled the boat and melted into the city. His adventure had begun, and he would... ... saying, "We have placed our lives on the line many times by putting our small boats in the way of fifty-ton fishing trawlers in order to save whal...

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...enever he could get them.” The first of these carried him again as a flat- boat hand to New Orleans. There something happened that made a lasting impr... ...man, whose youth had been spent in the forest or on the farm and the flat- boat, without culture or training, education or study, by the random readin... ...ille, Ky. MY FRIEND: By the way, a fine example was presented on board the boat for contemplating the effect of condition upon human happiness. A gent... ...hly goods of their owners were invested. Wagons drew it from town to town; boats bore it from clime to clime, and the winds wafted it from nation to n... ...ly selfish, so like throwing fathers and brothers overboard to lighten the boat for our security, that the noble-minded shrank from the manifest meann...

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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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...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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...ill-prepared, ill-planned teaching, and years of preoccupation with rowing-boats and cricket. The more extreme examples of this type will say in a ton...

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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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... were those of a Zanzibar stick dance, such as you see at Aden on the coal-boats, and even as I watched the people, the links that bound them to the w... ...nder his ponderous belly 35 Rudyard Kipling than he backed like a torpedo-boat, and the snarl of the reel told me that my labor was in vain. A dozen ... ...ing it. There are her companies of infantry in a sort of port there. A gun-boat brought over in pieces from Niagara could get the money and get away b... ... the money and get away before she could be caught, while an unarmored gun-boat guarding Toronto could rav- age the towns on the lakes. When one hears... ...strife with the Star Spangled Banner will disembark men from flat-bottomed boats on a conve- nient beach for the purpose of being shot down by local m...

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...ndicate. McDowell can reach you by land sooner than he could get aboard of boats, if the boats were ready at Fredericksburg, unless his march shall be... ...they immediately auction them off. They did so with those they took from a boat that was aground in the Tennessee River a few days ago. And then I am ... ...er 25, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL BURNSIDE, Falmouth, Virginia: If I should be in boat off Aquia Creek at dark tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, could you, witho... ...l 3, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL HOOKER: Our plan is to pass Saturday night on the boat, go over from Aquia Creek to your camp Sunday morning, remain with you...

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...g all together into the icy waters of the Mississippi, they swam after the boat. The ejectment of the Indians very often takes place at the present da... ... in wealth, and *In the course of ten years, from 1821 to 1831, 271 steam- boats have been launched upon the rivers which water the valley of the Miss...

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...quiet. In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip on a steam- boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that fro... ...d? Why, there was a shouting and ringing of bells and whistling on all the boats as it fell. It was a jubilee, a greater celebra- tion than follows an... ...e was burned passed through the span. When the bridge was repaired and the boats were a second time confined to the draw it was pro- vided that this r... ...n accidents, so that the dangers of this place are tapering off and as the boatmen get cool the accidents get less. We may soon ex- pect if this ratio... ...rence between a float 242 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two and a boat, but I do not remember that he indulged us with an argument in support... ...rrent is the same. A series of these floats would make a line as long as a boat and would show any influence upon any part and all parts of the boat. ... ...on came there on the 5th and lay at Rock Island until next morning. When a boat lies up the pilot has a holiday, and would not any of these jurors hav... ...ve acted somehow in this manner. “It is agreed by all that the plaintiff’s boat was destroyed and that it was destroyed upon the head of the short pie... ...prove that the average velocity of the cur- rent through the draw with the boat in it should be five and a half miles an hour; that it is slowest at t...

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...betrothal, she had dreamt that she was drifting down the Ewe in the little boat Miss Ullin, and saw Felix under the willow-tree holding out his bared ... ...x’s face at the least hope of a visit, and even little Fulbert talks about boat and fish.” “What have you done with the Lambs?” demanded Clement. “The... ...t they had been out for two hours enjoying sea-side felicity, watching the boats come in, and delighting in the beauty of the fresh mackerel. “If they... ...; find where there is a Coast-guard station, or any fisherman to put out a boat. No time to be lost.” “Oh, is it, is it—” cried the bewildered girl, w... ... anxiously with a glass; while below, the Preventive man was unlocking the boat- house, having already observed the peril of the boys, but lamenting t... ...h an oar; but the woman withheld her, saying that she would only crowd the boat and retard the rescue, for which the two were quite sufficient, only t... ...still, hugging his bag. Anna could have screamed with her brother, for the boat seemed to have overshot the mark, and to be going quite aloof, when al... ...Preventive woman, who had found a second glass: “Never you fear, miss, the boat will be up in time.” She could not speak. Her heart was in wild rebell... ...ian up, but there was white spray dashing round now. She could not see the boat. “They have to keep to the other side,” explained the woman. “God keep...

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...ss; but it lay as quiet as the abominable pool, with which it never mixed. Boats with- out awnings were too hot to touch; ships blistered at their moo... ... the hour is, and where I am. I was brought in here at night, and out of a boat, but I know where I am. See here! Marseilles harbour;’ on his knees on... ...papers are wrong, and whom the police lay hold of besides, for placing his boat (as a means of getting beyond the frontier) at the disposition of othe... ...Pet, my darling, you had better go along with Mother and get ready for the boat. The officer of health, and a variety of humbugs in cocked hats, are c... ...Clennam, shaking his head with his grave smile. ‘Enough of me. Here is the boat.’ The boat was filled with the cocked hats to which Mr Meagles enterta... ...a- sure of recovering their freedom, but flitted across the harbour in gay boats, and reassembled at a great hotel, whence the sun was excluded by clo... ...without look- ing up from her work. ‘Ah Heaven, then,’ said she. ‘When the boat came up from Lyons, and brought the news that the devil was actually l... ...romoted quiet digestion) began with some soup, some fried soles, a butter- boat of shrimp sauce, and a dish of potatoes. The conversa- tion still turn... ...ve stood for Tattycoram. Within view was the peaceful river and the ferry- boat, to moralise to all the inmates saying: Y oung or old, pas- sionate or...

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...ss; but it lay as quiet as the abominable pool, with which it never mixed. Boats with- out awnings were too hot to touch; ships blistered at their moo... ... the hour is, and where I am. I was brought in here at night, and out of a boat, but I know where I am. See here! Marseilles harbour;’ on his knees on... ...papers are wrong, and whom the police lay hold of besides, for placing his boat (as a means of getting beyond the frontier) at the disposition of othe... ...Pet, my darling, you had better go along with Mother and get ready for the boat. The officer of health, and a variety of humbugs in cocked hats, are c... ...Clennam, shaking his head with his grave smile. ‘Enough of me. Here is the boat.’ The boat was filled with the cocked hats to which Mr Meagles enterta... ...a- sure of recovering their freedom, but flitted across the harbour in gay boats, and reassembled at a great hotel, whence the sun was excluded by clo... ...without look- ing up from her work. ‘Ah Heaven, then,’ said she. ‘When the boat came up from Lyons, and brought the news that the devil was actually l... ...romoted quiet digestion) began with some soup, some fried soles, a butter- boat of shrimp sauce, and a dish of potatoes. The conversa- tion still turn... ...ve stood for Tattycoram. Within view was the peaceful river and the ferry- boat, to moralise to all the inmates saying: Y oung or old, pas- sionate or...

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...orld again!’ They did not stay long, but walked down to the Thames, took a boat, and rowed to Billingsgate. Beauclerk and Johnson were so well pleased... ...swell.’ Next day we got to Harwich to dinner; and my passage in the packet-boat to Helvoetsluys be- ing secured, and my baggage put on board, we dined... ...,—all vacuum. The crows impede your fall. The diminished appearance of the boats, and other circumstances, are all 210 Boswell’s Life of Johnson very... ...ohnson of that Ilk.— BOSWELL. 321 Boswell’s Life of Johnson We got into a boat to cross over to Black-fri- ars; and as we moved along the Thames, I t...

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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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...ex pression? Is the soul related to the body as sight to the eye, or as the boatman to his boat? (Arist. de Anim.) And in another state of being is t...

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...anxious to be landed. But our stern commander, for we were on a government boat, would not listen to their prayers, but carried us instead on board th... ...am- ers, all beached upon the shore, with their bows toward the land—large boats, capable probably of carrying from one to two hundred passengers each... ... the Ohio joins the Mississippi. The amount of traffic carried on by these boats while the coun- try was at peace within itself was very great, and co... ...ples, and is quite as much at home as in his own house. On board the river boats it is the same with him, with this exception, that when there he can ... ...ms to long for the end of his journey, as travelers do with us. Should his boat come to grief upon the river, and lay by for a day or a night, it does... ...revels in an elysium of his own. I was told that the stockholders in these boats were in a bad way at the present time. There were no dividends going.... ...h; no bitter tears or moans of sorrow. The men who were not at work in the boats stood loafing about in clusters, looking at the still rising river, b... .... The Ohio was, as I have said, flooded, and we went over it at night. The boat had been moored at some unaccus- tomed place. There was no light. The ... ...here. But the man drove his four horses through it all, and into the ferry-boat, over its side. There were three or four such omnibuses, and as many w...

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...e it. But this morning I looked directly down on a little fleet of fishing boats over which we passed, and on the crowds as- sembling on the beach, an... ... is true; the waterplane was out in the surf, and I was carried to it on a boatman’s back, and then had to clamber carefully through the wires, but th... ...r. Bruce Ismay, to be aboard and to be caught by the urgent vacancy in the boat and the snare of the mo- ment. No untried man dare say that he would h... ...ronger in reality than he is on paper in the matter of submarines, torpedo-boats, waterplanes and aeroplanes. These are things cheap to make and easy ... ...be a trifling counter- shock to wing an aeroplane or so, or blow a torpedo-boat out of the water. Our Dreadnoughts will cease to be a source of unmiti... ...ing breeze can stop it. Man circumvents. If fire were human it would build boats across the rivers and outmanoeuvre the wind. It would lie in wait in ...

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...y and gazed steadily. At that time there were no roads over mountains, nor boats, nor bridges over water. All things were produced, each for its own p...

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...er his shoulders! What pathos Scott ex- tracts from that “black bitch of a boat,” which Mucklebackit, in the frenzy of his grief, accuses for the loss...

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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 ...

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...or partner. “Y ou’ll be able to boast of being in charge of the handi- est boat of her size on the coast of China, Captain,” he added. “Have you? Than... ...ife of the Far East. The NanShan, he affirmed, was second to none as a sea-boat. “We have no brass-bound uniforms, but then we are like brothers here,... ...eather-cloths burst, rails twisted, light-screens smashed — and two of the boats had gone already. They had gone un- heard and unseen, melting, as it ... ...ips touched it — big, fleshy, very wet. He cried in an agitated tone, “Our boats are going now, sir.” And again he heard that voice, forced and ringin... ...All right.” He thought he had not managed to make himself understood. “Our boats — I say boats — the boats, sir! Two gone!” The same voice, within a f... ...holding of a stormy breath —and he felt himself pawed all over. It was the boatswain. Jukes recognized these hands, so thick and enor- mous that they ... ... and enor- mous that they seemed to belong to some new species of man. The boatswain had arrived on the bridge, crawling on all fours against the wind... ...n. There could be no mistake. The old fool was pleased with something. The boatswain’s other hand had found some other body, for in a changed tone he ... ...ed his howls. “Y es!” cried Captain MacWhirr. 40 Typhoon IV ALL THA T THE BOATSWAIN, out of a superabundance of yells, could make clear to Captain Ma...

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...ing metal brooded over by drooping trees. Charity and Harney had secured a boat and, getting away from the wharves and the refreshment-booths, they dr... ...k in the stern, and Harney unshipped the oars and lay in the bottom of the boat without speaking. Ever since their meeting at the Creston pool he had ... ... She wondered what the girl was like whose hand was waiting for his ring…. Boats were beginning to thicken on the Lake and the clang of incessantly ar... ...contempt was unbounded. “I mean a big per- formance like this, illuminated boats, and all the rest.” She flushed at the picture. “Do they send them up... ...h obliged to give up their table and struggle through the throng about the boat-landings. For a while there seemed no escape from the tide of late arr... ...and a wave of moonlight swept the Lake. In a flash it revealed hundreds of boats, steel- dark against lustrous ripples; then it withdrew as if with a ... ...gigantic, standing with folded arms in the stern of a slowly moving golden boat. A long “Oh-h-h” burst from the spectators: the stand creaked and shoo... ...,” a megaphone bellowed from the wharf; and the lights of the little steam-boat came dancing out of the darkness. “No use waiting here; shall we run u... ...dge of the water just as the gang-plank lowered from the white side of the boat. The electric light at the end of the wharf flashed full on the de- sc...

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...s wife to peg out the washing on the clothes line in the meadow. The great boat-shaped wagons came up from Playcross with the hay. At first the farm-m... ... and their bodies moved with slow motion, like small, light, flat-bottomed boats. I admired them, they were curious. Then a gust of wind caught them, ... ...n a gust of wind caught them, heeled them over as if they were three frail boats opening their feathers like ragged sails. They hopped and skipped wit...

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..., “if one can believe what one reads, it applies to hackney-coaches, ferry-boats, doctors, lawyers, and even the clergy. My father says it is—” “What?... ...h my parents had brought me up a schoolmaster; I would be off in the first boat. Blast it!—I thought when I came down to $30,000, he would have snappe...

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... go to the river and wash their flax and silks, and other stuffs. A little boat was at the entrance of it, rowed by a single sailor. In the bow was a ... ...f low stature and very simply dressed. Chaudieu and Christophe entered the boat, which in a mo- 49 Balzac ment was in the middle of the Seine; the sa... ...work beneath the surface of the Reformation. At the moment when the little boat floated beneath the arch of the pont au Change the question was strang... ... interest. “Well,” said Chaudieu, as young Lecamus ended his speech, “this boatman is La Renaudie. And here is Monsiegneur the Prince de Conde,” he ad... ...nows but our four selves that he is one of us. He will give you a faithful boatman,—another Guisist of his own cut. Go down at once to the wharf, and ... ...ther Guisist of his own cut. Go down at once to the wharf, and embark in a boat painted green and edged with white. You will doubtless land at Beaugen... ...d at Beaugency to-morrow about mid-day. There I will arrange to find you a boat which will take you to Blois without run- ning any risk. Our enemies t... ...at seemed almost friendship. With a stroke of his oars La Renaudie put the boat at the lower step of the stairway which led to the house. Christophe l... ...er step of the stairway which led to the house. Christophe landed, and the boat disappeared instantly beneath the arches of the pont au Change. 57 Ba...

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...year one thousand eight hundred and sixty- one, people had left off taking boat at Break-Neck-Stairs, and watermen had ceased to ply there. The slimy ... ...taxing you! Besides, it commenced with me. I remember, that evening in the boat upon the lake, floating among the reflections of the mountains and val... ...asleep before the fire, was present to him. He was ship-wrecked in an open boat at sea, and having lost his clothes, had no other cov- ering than an o...

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...th only their Sprit sail out before the Wind. Towards Evening the Mate and Boat Swain begg’d the Master of our Ship to let them cut away the Foremast,... ...to let them cut away the Foremast, which he was very unwilling to: But the Boat Swain protesting to him, that if he did not, the Ship would founder, ... ...e Storm was so violent, that I saw what is not often seen, the Master, the Boat Swain, and some others more sensible than the rest, at their Prayers, ... ...for Help; and a light Ship who had rid it out just a Head of us ventured a Boat out to help us. It was with the utmost Hazard the Boat came near us, b... ...oat came near us, but it was impossible for us to get on Board, or for the Boat to lie near the Ship Side, till at last the Men rowing very heartily, ... ...ok hold of and we hall’d them close under our Stern and got all into their Boat. It was to no Purpose for them or us after we were in the Boat to thin... ...wards Shore as much as we could, and our Master promised them, That if the Boat was stav’d upon Shore he would make it good to their Master, so partly... ...ould make it good to their Master, so partly rowing and partly driving our Boat went away to the Norward sloaping towards the Shore almost as far as W... ... told me she was sinking; for from that Moment they rather put me into the Boat than that I might be said to go in, my Heart was as it were dead withi...

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...ir workmen discharged. Add to these that the river was in a manner without boats, and all or most part of the watermen, lightermen, boat-builders, and... ...is now upon us all?’ ‘Why, sir,’ says he, ‘I am a waterman, and there’s my boat,’ says he, ‘and the boat serves me for a house. I work in it in the da... ...that they may not be obliged to come on shore; and every night I fasten my boat on board one of the ship’s boats, and there I sleep by myself, and, bl... ...he, ‘I very seldom go up the ship- side, but deliver what I bring to their boat, or lie by the side, and they hoist it on board. If I did, I think the... ...y a few moments and he would come; so he ran down the common stairs to his boat and fetched up a sack, in which was the provisions he had brought from... ...amily, sure you cannot have so little pity left as to put yourself into my boat if you were not sound in health which would be nothing less than killi... ... was just to him, now importuned me to go; so when the tide came up to his boat I went in, and he carried me to Green- wich. While he bought the thing... ...iged to send often on shore to buy what they had occasion for, or suffered boats to come 101 Daniel Defoe to them from the shore. And so the distempe... ...ith provisions that they had no need to go on shore for supplies or suffer boats to come on board to bring them, – I say, where they did so they had c...

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...riods of time, we must follow in the wake of this mighty ark—a humble cock-boat. When it pauses, we pause; when it runs ten knots an hour, we run with... ...e river is described, that takes place between the crews of a tinklerman’s boat and the water-bailiffs. Shouting his war-cry, “St. Mary Overy a la res... ...s fell heavily to his side. Foot to foot, each standing at the side of his boat, stood the brave men—they were both dead! “In the name of St. Clement ... ...irst quarter a dagger displayed of the second), he thrust the tinklerman’s boat away from his own; and at once the bodies of the cap- tains plunged do...

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... water, I was much in and about it, learnt early to swim well, and to manage boats; and when in a boat or canoe The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin... ...loy you.” Philadelphia was a hundred miles further; I set out, however, in a boat for Amboy, leav ing my chest and things to follow me round by sea. ... ... no remedy but to wait till the wind should abate; and, in the meantime, the boatman and I concluded to sleep, if we could; and so crowded into the sc... ... the Dutchman, who was still wet, and the spray beating over the head of our boat, leak’d thro’ to us, so that we were soon almost as wet as he. In th... ...ey on foot, having fifty miles to Burlington, where I was told I should find boats that would carry me the rest of the way to Philadelphia. It rained ... ...ing reach’d Burlington, but had the mortification to find that the regu lar boats were gone a little before my coming, and no other expected to go be... ...day should come. However, walking in the evening by the side of the river, a boat came by, which I found was going towards Philadelphia, with sev era... ... dollar, and about a shilling in copper. The latter I gave the people of the boat for my passage, who at first refus’d it, on account of my rowing; bu... ...way, and, corning round, found myself again at Market street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and, be...

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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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... before our eyes the city cut into three by the two arms of the river, the boat-shaped island “moored” by five bridges to the different shores, and th... ... as it begins. I am very doubtful whether it would be possible to keep the boat from foundering in such circumstances, by any amount of breakwater and... ...e? Of the chapter in which Lantenac and Halmalho are alone together in the boat, the less said the better; of course, if there were nothing else, they... ...itself a character of the work. Every one who has been upon a walking or a boating tour, living in the open air, with the body in constant exercise an... ...hand. There were few things that he could not do. He could make a house, a boat, a pencil, or a book. He was a surveyor, a scholar, a natural historia... ... natural historian. He could run, walk, climb, skate, swim, and man- age a boat. The smallest occasion served to display his physi- cal accomplishment... ... already white” for their last morning in Japan. They seized a fisherman’s boat and rowed out – Perry lying far to sea because of the two tides. Their... ...r they had no sooner caught hold upon the ship than they kicked away their boat to make return impossible. And now you would have thought that all was... ...ith all its spires, the river passing through the old bridge and busy with boats. One side of the White T ower has been taken out, and we can see, as ...