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...y colleges the custom permitted the student to keep what are called “short terms”; that is, the four terms of Michaelmas, Lent, Easter, and Act, were ... ...- nal factions of shoemakers perhaps ten years later. Possibly enough, the terms may have existed much earlier; but they were then first made known, p... ...ly upon American ideas of grandeur, and concluding in something like these terms:— “And, sir, arriving at London, this mighty father of rivers attains... ...ears by supposing the case of a Siberian glorifying his coun- try in these terms:—“These wretches, sir, in France and En- gland, cannot march half a m... ...it had lain at the Bridgewater Arms. I had left it there in imitation of a nautical discoverer, who leaves a bit of bunting on the shore of his discov... ...m—for nationality it was not. Suffren, and some half dozen of other French nautical heroes, because rightly they did us all the mischief they could (w... ...ome loftier ranges, repel woods; the forests and the hills are on sociable terms. “Live and let live” is their motto. For this reason, in part, these ... ...ep silent remembrances, have been detected through murmur- ing, or what is nautically understood by “skulking.” So, for once, M. Michelet has an errat...

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...guaranty of an unmolested repose; and security there was not, on any lower terms, for the latentis semita vitae. The slightest approach to any favorab... ...nts, my brother and I had the entrée at all times, but upon very different terms of acceptance: he as 67 Autobiographic Sketches a favorite of the fi... ...uck me that my brother never would degrade himself by fitting out a costly nautical expedition against poor little Gombroon; and how else could he get... ...we were, in fact, little saints. But the enemy could not be brought to any terms of accommodation. “That we will try,” said the vowel amongst our guar... ...ached my sixteenth year, and visited 121 Autobiographic Sketches him upon terms of friendship as close as can ever have ex- isted between a boy and a... ...at he might swim in the innocent blood which he had caused to be shed. But nautical men, I suspect, would have demurred to that estimate. Then were su... ... indispensable to the prosperity of the ship. Amongst the various parts of nautical skill communi- cated to my brother by his first fatherly captain, ... ... point of committing himself. Other causes might be assigned, causative of nautical super- stition, and tending to feed it. But enough. It is well kno... ...thout one particle of interest, my brother passed into the royal navy. His nautical accomplishments were now of the utmost importance to him; and, as ...

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...eragents, &c., of this drug, expresses himself in the following mysterious terms [Greek text]: “Perhaps he thought the subject of too delicate a natur... ...any reason to feel it, in avowing that I was then on familiar and friendly terms with many women in that unfor- tunate condition. The reader needs nei... ...d now I come to the end of my story. The Jews did not approve of Lord D—’s terms; whether they would in the end have acceded to them, and were only se... ... the motion of time; and sometimes in my attempts to steer homewards, upon nautical principles, by fixing my eye on the pole-star, and seeking ambitio... ...brother. I have thus described and illustrated my intellectual tor- por in terms that apply more or less to every part of the four years during which ... ...readers), I was put in possession of the sum I asked for, on the “regular” terms of paying the Jew seventeen and a half per cent. by way of annuity on...

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... a liberty with them. I doubt whether the petting, patronising equality of terms on which children now live with their parents be equally wholesome. T... ...rred continu- ing at school to what he pronounced, on the authority of the nautical tales freely thrown in our way, to be the life of a dog, only fit ... ... with the assistance of the curate and Miss Winslow. 86 Chantry House The terms were rejected with scorn. No School Board could be more determined ag... ...re letters about it in the iron deed-box, and how he hoped to be on better terms with the new heir. The ghost story had always been hushed up in the f... ... we had been with our elderly father. When once Mrs. Fordyce found on what terms we were to be, she accepted them frankly and fully. Already Emily had... ...l time, tempers are apt to get rather difficult. Griffith had kept all his terms at Oxford, and was not to return thither after the long vaca- tion, b...

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...ogress, one Mr. Linger-after-Lust with whom I fancy we are all on speaking terms; one famous among the famous for ingenu- ity of hope up to and beyond... ...mingled pity due to such a fate. But there is one thing to which, on these terms, we can never agree: – we can never agree to have you marry. What! yo... ...o preserve the attitude of their affections that they may meet on the same terms as they had parted. Pitiful is the case of the blind, who cannot read... ...toriously flown in the face of such precepts are spoken of in hyperbolical terms of praise, and honoured with public monuments in the streets of our c... ...d life in its dozen senses until we are weary of tricking; we may argue in terms of all the phi- losophies on earth, but one fact remains true through... ...e begins to move, swaggers among such persons with a sense of he- reditary nautical experience. To suppose yourself endowed with natural parts for the...

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...n, as viceroy of India -- He dies of poison -- Demon and Portuguese synonymous terms in India -- Da Gama's ghost, pursued, by the spectres of his vict... ...The attack on Cartagena -- Entrance to the city -- Defeat of the Spaniards and terms of peace purchased at the cost of half their possessions 318- 324... ...in a voyage without some salt in his pocket. He has a horror of rice, which he terms "strike-me-blind," and will not under any circumstances eat the h... ... the tale of the Phantom Vessel is the best known and most poetical of all the nautical legends. Novelists have used it, poets have embellished it, dr... ... in July 1525, with every promise of great success; but the imperfect state of nautical science in that day led to several disasters which brought the... ...d instruments, he put the men in irons and sent them below; collecting all the nautical apparatus, including every map and chart he threw overboard th... ... was supposed to be the prophesied invasion, but others more familiar with the terms of the prophecy knew that not thus could it be fulfilled, for the... ...eir journals with accounts of the queer vessels and men which they saw. With a nautical interest in the subject, they tell of the native craft which h... ...catan having been completely broken, they were ready to sue for peace upon any terms, and accepted the conditions which Cortez imposed. They renounced...

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... for nationality it was not. Suffrein, and some half dozen of other French nautical heroes, because rightly they did us all the mischief they could, [... ...ike some loftier ranges, repel woods: the forests and they are on sociable terms. Live and let live is their motto. For this reason, in part, these tr... ...ep silent remembrances, have been de- tected through murmuring, or what is nautically understood by “skulking.” So, for once, M. Michelet has an errat... ...e of these the custom permitted the student to keep what are called “short terms;” that is, the four terms of Michaelmas, Lent, Easter, and Act, were ... ... nal fractions of shoemakers perhaps ten years later. Possibly enough, the terms may have existed much earlier; but they were then first made known, p... ...ly upon American ideas of grandeur, and concluding in something like these terms:— ”And, sir, arriving at London, this mighty father of rivers attains... ... ears, by supposing the case of a Siberian glorifying his country in these terms:—“These ras- cals, sir, in France and England, cannot march half a mi... ...it had lain at the Bridgewater Arms. I had left it there in imitation of a nautical discoverer, who leaves a bit of bunting on the shore of his discov...

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...acked chairs—more like a farm kitchen than a ship’s cuddy. The sea and all nautical affairs seemed very far removed from the hospitality of this exemp... ... under no necessity to be amiable. He was sure to get his own extortionate terms out of me for towage whether he frowned or smiled. As a matter of fac... ...g Burmah pony—could by no means have passed. The constable seemed to be on terms of scornful intimacy with Maltese, with Eur- asians, with Chinamen, w...

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... 28 Reprinted Pieces either house or lodging of which you could reduce the terms, you could scarcely engage in a more hopeless pursuit. For all this, ... ...eman with no chil dren in family had made an offer very close to your own terms, and you had passed your word to give them a positive answer in half ... ...entimental sea sort. 149 Charles Dickens All the rooms are decorated with nautical subjects. Wrecks, engagements, ships on fire, ships passing lighth... ...hen, we looked into the store room; where there was an oakum smell, and a nautical sea soning of dreadnought clothing, rope yarn, boat hooks, sculls... ...e old servants, ‘O, do come and hire your poor old master! Pray do! On any terms!’ And this, for the present, finishes the story of Prince Bull. I wis...

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...e Highway is a public thoroughfare in a most chaotic quarter of eastern or nautical London; and at this time (viz., in 1812), when no adequate police ... ... in consequence of old contracts with oil-dealers, subsisting through long terms of years. 5 Let the reader, who is disposed to regard as exaggerated... ...or of correcting errors in science. Most justly is this said: but often in terms far too feeble. For generally these terms are such as to imply, that,... ...several por- tions of the undertaking. He was perhaps not illiberal in the terms of his contracts. At least I know of people now-a-days (much better a... ...mphlets which I received from him at Grasmere he expressed himself in such terms on the subject of T yrannicide (distinguishing the cases in which 17... ...erize these three poets, and to value them against each other, but in such terms as that, whilst nothing less than the very highest praise should be a...

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...ss which would fol- low, to write off at once a summons in the most urgent terms to the brother of my wife. This gentleman, whom I shall call Pierpoin... ...ality, that nursery-maid, of whom some mention has been made above, and in terms expressing the suspicion with which even then I regarded her, had per... ...as were then open to him, for making over- tures to her with regard to the terms upon which he would agree to defeat the charge against her by failing... ... some office of no great responsibility. Upon this knowledge we framed the terms of our invitation. These proved to be effectual, as regarded our imme... ...s surprised to find, on proposing the same service to him, and on the same terms, that he made no objection whatever, but closed instantly with my off... ...nd the shameful man of ropes fumbled so deplorably, that Kate (who by much nautical ex- perience had learned from another sort of ‘Jack’ how a knot sh... ...ets—feelings that have not, no, nor ever will, utterly decay. No excess of nautical skill will ever perfectly disenchant the great abyss from its terr...

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...Man, Woman, and ‘Clarissa Harlowe.’ It is to be so clever that no array of terms can give you any idea; and very likely that particular array in which... ...ut try to possess my soul in peace, and continue to possess my body on any terms. CALISTOGA, NAPA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA All which is a fortnight old and ... ...ixteen; conceive my glory. Several of the phrases you object to are proper nautical, or long-shore phrases, and therefore, I think, not out of place i... ...uble for two days, and still gives me a list to starboard – let us be ever nautical! I do not think with the start I have there will be any difficulty... ...ok, or Treasure Is- land: A Tale of the Buccaneers,’ in Y oung Folks. (The terms are 2 pounds, 10s. a page of 4500 words; that’s not noble, is it? But... ...s good as any. I was the more bound to make it good, as I had such liberal terms; it’s not for want of trying if I have failed. I got your letter on m... ...It seems to me, in particular, that you have wilfully read all my works in terms of my earliest; my aim, even in style, has quite changed in the last ...

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...oy, before and after his pie, were on the wall, divided by a highly coloured nautical piece, the subject of which had all her colours (and more) flyin... ... Idle Appren tices, crippled in an instant. The situation was now, in plain terms, one of absolute danger. There lay Mr. Idle writhing with pain, the... ...ings did he and the ball come to gether on anything approaching to intimate terms. The unnatural activity of body which was necessarily called forth ...

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... communication, through their chief, with Mr Towlinson, to whom they offer terms to be bought off; and the third, in the person of an artful trom- bon... ...rom table, endeavours to comfort her; but she will not be comforted on any terms, and so the Major takes his leave. Cousin Feenix takes his leave, and... ... this man taketh this woman, and this woman taketh this man, on the solemn terms: ‘T o have and to hold, from this day forward, for better for worse, ... ...ctly as if somebody was sitting upon me. ‘Them,’ said the Captain, ‘is the terms I offer. If they’re hard upon you, brother, as mayhap they are, give ... ... visitor in the back parlour. At the hour of eight, a deep lowing, as of a nautical Bull, outside the shop-door, succeeded by the knock- ing of a stic... ...ore freely with Mr Dombey than anyone, and stand, it may be said, on equal terms with him, and have been favoured and enriched by him—that it would be... ...Mr T oots could not be blind to. But that young gentleman, considering his nautical friend as merely in a state of prepara- tion for the interview he ...

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...isters; yoking the winds to their Sea-chariot, making the very Stars their Nautical Time- piece;—and written and collected a Bibliotheque du Roi; amon... ... this. (Besenval, iii. 360.) To make provision for the passing day, on any terms, will soon be impossible.—On the 16th of August, poor Weber heard, at... ... us; and six feet of earth! What boots it, vamping rotten leather on these terms? Glorious in comparison is the livelihood thy good old Fa- ther earns... ...s a paper through his porthole; the shifty Usher snatches it, and returns. Terms of surrender: Pardon, immunity to all! Are they accepted?—”Foi d’offi... ...pty. The remedy is a Loan of thirty millions; then, on still more enticing terms, a Loan of eighty millions: neither of which Loans, unhappily, will t...

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...isters; yoking the winds to their Sea-chariot, making the very Stars their Nautical Time- piece;—and written and collected a Bibliotheque du Roi; amon... ... this. (Besenval, iii. 360.) To make provision for the passing day, on any terms, will soon be impossible.—On the 16th of August, poor Weber heard, at... ... us; and six feet of earth! What boots it, vamping rotten leather on these terms? Glorious in comparison is the livelihood thy good old Father earns, ... ...s a paper through his porthole; the shifty Usher snatches it, and returns. Terms of surrender: Pardon, immunity to all! Are they accepted?—”Foi d’offi... ...pty. The remedy is a Loan of thirty millions; then, on still more enticing terms, a Loan of eighty millions: neither of which Loans, unhappily, will t... ...ed, as he yesterday did in thirty printed Placards proclaim. These are his terms, unalterable as the decrees of Destiny. Which terms as they, the Muti...

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...scheme, will endure forever; Laplace, still more cunningly, even guesses that it could not have been made on any other scheme. Whereby, at least, our nautical Logbooks can be better kept; and watertransport of all kinds has grown more commodious. Of Geology and Geognosy we know enough: what with the labors of our Werners and Huttons, what with the ardent genius of their di...

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...that it could not have been made on any other scheme. Whereby, at least, our nautical Logbooks can be better kept; and water transport of all kinds h... ...ir Spice country of a Nowhere?—A solitary rover, on such a voyage, with such nautical tactics, will meet with adventures. Nay, as we forthwith discove... ...indispens able. In every new era, too, such Solution comes out in different terms; and ever the Solution of the last era has become obsolete, and is ... ...al foreign or domestic? If so, what are those Prize Questions; what are the terms of Competition, and when and where? No printed Newspaper leaf, no f...

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...and courageous enough to interpret the ultimate experience of man- kind in terms of his temperament, in terms of art. I do not mean to say that he wou... ...ved their vigour and his rude elo- quence had lost nothing of its force. A nautical devil tempting him by the worldly sug- gestion of fitting out his ... ... early this world of the living, which he knew how to set before us in the terms of his own artistic vision? Perhaps he did not lose a great deal. The... ...desty) both true and lovely. Yet no little girl ever wrote to me in kindly terms. And why? Simply be- cause I am not enough of a Vagabond. The dear de... ... wise than the irresponsible talk of strat- egy that never changes, and of terms of peace that do not matter. And above it all—unaccountably persisten... ...e aim, the simple ideal, the only problem for an unselfish so- lution. The terms of it have changed with the years, its risks have worn different aspe...

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... a different training; he obeys different laws; he makes his will in other terms, is otherwise divorced and married; his eyes are not at home in an En... ...ost deservin ’ gentleman.” Again, two of our friends, who were on intimate terms, and accustomed to use language to each other, some- 40 Robert Louis... ...instructed, but fellow-teachers with whom I may wrangle and agree on equal terms. We must reach some solution, some shadow of consent; for without tha... ...sure in dexterity displayed and proved; what they get they get upon life’s terms, paying for it as they go; and once the talk is launched, they are as... ...ord. Listless have been the looks of his admirers, who have exhausted idle terms of praise, and bur- ied the poor soul below exaggerations. And yet mo... ... and powder-horn and corner- cupboard; here is the inn (this drama must be nautical, I foresee Captain Luff and Bold Bob Bowsprit) with the red curtai...