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...ise was planned. They decided at first that they would call themselves the Naval Mr. O’s, a plagiarism, and not perhaps a very good one, from the titl... ...serge, with a lot of gold lace and cord and ornamenta- tion, rather like a naval officer’s, but more so. But that had to be abandoned as impracticable... ... telegraphy was bringing to the airship in throbs and fragments of a great naval battle in progress in mid-Atlantic. He learnt it at last from Kurt. K... ...hips—when the international situation became acute. It was made up of four battleships and five armoured cruisers ranking almost with battleships, not... ...claration of war—indeed,on Whit Monday— the whole German fleet of eighteen battleships, with a flo- tilla of fuel tenders and converted liners contain... ...straits of Dover and headed boldly for New York. Not only did these German battleships outnumber the Americans two to one, but they were more heavily ... ...ng city of A by means of three raider airships. A denounces B’s raiders as pirates and so forth, bom- bards B’s capital, and sets off to hunt down B’s... ...of A. The war became perforce a universal guerilla war, a war inextricably involving civilians and homes and all the apparatus of social life. These a... ...village would be liable to a raid of Asiatics or Africans or such-like air-pirates, de- manding petrol and alcohol or provisions. The price of its ord...

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...emporarily!” Or, perhaps, better still, the inward reso- lution of the two pirates, that “so long as they remained in 15 Virginibus Puerisque & Other... ...you will, but you cannot help some emotion when you read of well- disputed battles, or meet a pair of lovers in the lane. Certainly, whatever it may b... ...sticating brain. Not long ago I wrote a letter to a friend which came near involving us in quarrel; but we met, and in personal talk I repeated the wo... ... and on great and perilous waters; and to take a cue from the dolorous old naval bal- lad, we have heard the mer-maidens singing, and know that we sha... ... were attainable in a world where there are so many marriages and decisive battles, and where we all, at certain hours of the day, and with great gust... ...of what is imposing to the imagination. And our 82 Robert Louis Stevenson naval annals owe some of their interest to the fantastic and beautiful appe... ...n, Foul- Weather, Jack Byron, are all good to catch the eye in a page of a naval history. Cloudesley Shovel is a mouthful of quaint and sounding sylla... ... wonder how many people have been inspired by this mad story, and how many battles have been actually won for England in the spirit thus engendered. I...

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...on and unending wars; but his inclinations being perceived by the Cilician pirates, who desired not peace nor quiet, but riches and spoils, they immed... ...apt himself to any change of circumstances. Metellus had had experience in battles fought by regular legions of soldiers, fully armed and drawn up in ... ...atter if this Chersonesian pest should meet his death, who in thousands of battles had annoyed and wasted the Macedonians; it would be a much more gri... ...nment, there came news from Asia, that the Persian king was mak- ing great naval preparations, resolving with a high hand to dispossess the Spartans o... ... and rely on time, in a contest with men who had no experience in fighting battles, but with their great numbers might be able to surround them, and c... ...vents themselves not long after showed the truth of this. The power of the pirates first commenced in Cilicia, hav- ing in truth but a precarious and ... ... against the two kings, Mithridates and Tigranes, retaining still the same naval forces and the sovereignty of the seas as before. But this was nothin... ...use a more subtle stratagem, than in drawing the fight so far off from the naval forces. As it now was, however, since he must come to some deci- sion... ...o his fellow citizens. For it will not even do to say, that he dreaded the involving the city in war, by seizing Nicanor, and hoped by professions of ...

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...despatched to sea. He went unwillingly; not so much from an objection to a naval life as from a wish, incomprehensible to grown men and boys, and espe... ...darkness, the still-trembling gloomy quiver—the brain of the lightnings of battles. Now this boy nursed no secret presumptuous belief that he was fitt... ...in- gers at them. Everard expected, he had prepared himself for, the young naval politician’s crow, and he meant to admit frankly that he had been wro... ...rmenian con- vent—a lord and a poet. This was to be infinitely more than a naval lieutenant. But Nevil claimed her as little personally as he allowed ... ..., writing him down, declaring, all the time he was fighting his first hard battles, that his cause was hopeless—that resistance to Napoleon was imposs... ... shots at the detested one, and certain boys were maltreated for an ardour involving clumsiness. A 234 Beauchamp’s Career young genius of this horde ... ...s politics, he disdained prudence. A monstrous crime had been commit- ted, involving the honour of the family. No subtlety of in- sinuation, no sugges... ...say Yes would be to plunge a dagger in her bosom; but No was a vain deceit involving a double wreck. Assuredly a man standing against the world in a g... ...ank a great deal of bitterness from his reflections. They who provoke huge battles, and gain but lame victo- ries over themselves, insensibly harden t...

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...hief captain of Minos, was slain by Theseus at the mouth of the port, in a naval combat, as he was sailing out for Athens. But Philochorus gives us th... ...as made captain of the great ship Argo, to sail about and scour the sea of pirates. But Daedalus having escaped from Crete, and flying by sea to Athen... ...oligarchy. Themistocles, however, formed yet higher designs with a view to naval supremacy. For, after the departure of Xerxes, when the Grecian fleet... ...he wind slacking, galleys of the Lipareans came upon them, taking them for pirates; and, when they held up their hands as suppliants, forbore indeed f... ... the Corinthians, and to secure to themselves an island possessed of great naval resources, since the Peloponnesians were already all but in actual ho... ...was sent into Spain, had driven the Carthaginians, defeated by him in many battles, out of the country, and had gained over to Rome many towns and nat... ...; his noble birth, his riches, the personal courage he had shown in divers battles, and the multitude of his friends and dependents, threw open, so to... ...Lamachus, the third general, though he was of mature years, yet in several battles had appeared no less hot and rash than Alcibiades himself. When the... ...is; but there his soldiers’ hearts failing, after exposing his project and involving the Spartans in a dangerous war, he retreated to Thespiae. After ...

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...d it; and in her present wrestle with the scheme of a large country estate involving new intimacies, anxieties, the courtship of rival magnates, follo... ...es, masking hills, dividing rivers. He had mapped for himself mentally the battles of conquerors in his favourite historic reading; and he understood ... ...s having heard from a scholar, that pigs had been the cause of more bloody battles than any other animal. How so? the pork-butcher asked, and said he ... ...ion of them, Skepsey explained. Oh! possession! Why, we’ve heard of bloody battles for the possession of women! Men will fight for almost anything the... ... existence! Old Colney seems right now and then: they ‘re the offspring of pirates, and they ‘ve got the manners and tastes of their progenitors, and ... ...e, at his reading of a lengthy report in a newspaper of a Wedding Ceremony involving his favourite Bishop for bridegroom: a report to make one glow li... ...sparkling to him. Skepsey enjoyed it, at the back of thoughts military and naval. Visible sea, this girdle of Britain, inspired him to exultations in ... ...touched Nesta simply, as a young girl to be protected, without abhorrently involving the woman. He had his ideas of the Spirit of Woman stating her ca...

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...grounded on the consideration of his guarding and protecting the seas from pirates and robbers, is the right to royal fish, which are whale and sturge... ...chant ships are but extension bridges; armed ones but floating forts; even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the road, th... ... presented to the company as a harpooneer, say; and if in emulation of the naval officers he should append the initials S.W .F. (Sperm Whale Fishery) ... ...gious hurry, they run away from each other as soon as possible. And as for Pirates, when they chance to cross each other’s cross-bones, the first hail... ...ke craggy guns of lofty Mackinaw; they have heard the fleet thunderings of naval victories; at intervals, they yield their beaches to wild barbarians,... ...ere the beholder fights his way, pell- mell, through the consecutive great battles of France; where every sword seems a flash of the Northern Lights, ... ...attler on a whaling voyage of discovery into the South Sea. Commanded by a naval Post-Captain, the Rattler made a rattling voyage of it, and did some ... ... foundations for cathedrals. Y et was this half-horrible stolidity in him, involving, too, as it appeared, an all-ramifying heartlessness;—yet was it ...

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...w full of what he used to read about in his books, enchantments, quarrels, battles, challenges, wounds, wooings, loves, agonies, and all sorts of impo... ...leteers, who had no idea of a joke and did not under- stand all this about battles and spoils, seeing that Don Quixote was some distance off talking t... ...that in punishment for having transgressed the laws of chivalry the God of battles has permitted this chastisement to be administered to me; for which... ...ed, kingdoms preserved, cities protected, roads made safe, seas cleared of pirates; and, in short, if it were not for them, states, kingdoms, monarchi... ...remained alive and victorious) I alone was miserable; for, instead of some naval crown that I might have expected had it been in Roman times, on the n... ...t the present moment your request is inop- portune, for I am debarred from involving myself in any adventure until I have brought to a happy conclusio...

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...w full of what he used to read about in his books, enchantments, quarrels, battles, challenges, wounds, wooings, loves, agonies, and all sorts of impo... ...leteers, who had no idea of a joke and did not under- stand all this about battles and spoils, seeing that Don Quixote was some distance off talking t... ...that in punishment for having transgressed the laws of chivalry the God of battles has permitted this chastisement to be administered to me; for which... ...ed, kingdoms preserved, cities protected, roads made safe, seas cleared of pirates; and, in short, if it were not for them, states, kingdoms, monarchi... ...remained alive and victorious) I alone was miserable; for, instead of some naval crown that I might have expected had it been in Roman times, on the n... ...t the present moment your request is inop- portune, for I am debarred from involving myself in any adventure until I have brought to a happy conclusio... ... this is not the time for going into questions of the sort, which would be involving ourselves in an inextricable labyrinth. Believe 625 Cervantes – ... ...n or a rational being. In the end, though they sought to dissuade him from involving himself in such a challenge, assur- ing him they admitted his gra...

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...ount of killed and wounded, but as the battle which terminated a series of battles, having one common object, namely, the overthrow of a frightful tyr... ...political events, and especially the great 12 Memorials, and Other Papers battles during a conflict of unparalleled grandeur. These hon- orary distin... ... Lon- don fair of St. Bartholomew in years long past, or by the records of battles and skirmishes through the monotonous pages of history, or by the c... ...tack, seems never to have been fully rooted out from the little creeks and naval fastnesses of the Morea, and of some of the Egean islands. Not, perha... ... territory in the ancient Sparta, famous for its hardy race of robbers and pirates.* *These Mainates have been supposed to be of Sclavonian origin; bu... ...power, as their extraordinary gains were altogether depen- dent on war and naval blockades. 228 Memorials, and Other Papers this was on the ninth of ... ...ven qua- druple interpretations—each rising in dignity, each crypti- cally involving another. Even amongst natural agencies, pre- cisely as they rise ... ...tity of C at the same time that B commands a double quantity of C, without involving any absurdity at all. And, if so, the disputed doctrine is establ...

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...at he never forgave the Admiralty for striking him off the list of English naval captains: which is no doubt why in his old age he nursed a grudge aga... ...horse-artillery. You know his vanity to be a mili- tary quite as much as a naval commander like the Greeks and Romans, he says. We took the bruised ma... ...e it to me,’ his uncle said: and we hear of business affairs between them, involving payment of moneys due to the young man; and how, whenever he touc... ... other gentleman, who was hailed ‘Mallard!’ and cared nothing for problems involving the fe- male of man when such work was to the fore as the pugilis... ... surmounted the task of conceiving his resolution to do it; and this task, involving an offence to the Lady Livia and intrusion of his name on a noble... ... you ‘re always going to suspect a man!’ he put it, like a true son of the pirates turned traders. ‘I’ve got a paytron, and a man in my profession mus... ...iting the sleep desired. He lay and groaned, lay and rolled. All night the Naval Monarch with the loose cheeks and jelly smile of the swinging sign- b... ...ay, he swears. You know what a pas- sion is; you have it for mountains and battles, I for music. I do remember, one morning before sunrise, driving ba...