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...z Mejías Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint Wounds of Love The Beloved Sleeps on the Breast of the Poet Two Laws Sonnet Night-Song of the Andalusian Sailors Index of First Lines...

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...To ensure that the DOD is properly managing taxpayer’s money while still providing the best for our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines, we must not pay just lip service to this upcoming quadrennial defense review....

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... the United States Air Force (USAF), only two airmen have risen to serve as regional commanders in chief (CINC). During the same period, 74 soldiers, sailors, and Marines were selected for geographic CINC billets. In Once in a Blue Moon: Airmen in Theater Command, Lt Col Howard D. Belote examines the reasons for this disparity and suggests how airmen might improve their pr...

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...ong the docks of any considerable sea-port would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-ofwar?s men or merchant-sailors in holiday attire ashore on liberty. In certain instances they would flank, or, like a body-guard quite surround some superior figure of their own class, moving along with them like Aldebaran among the lesser lights o...

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...ion arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-of- war’s men or merchant-sailors in holiday attire ashore on liberty. In certain instances they woul... ...e delighted to know that in a time when his hard tack is not sought for by sailors with such avidity as should be; a time also when some shipmasters p... ...dividuals who, however inferior in grade, were of no common natural stamp, sailors more signally susceptive of that air which continuous martial disci... ...identially set apart for dance- houses, doxies and tapsters, in short what sailors call a “fiddlers’-green,” his simple nature remained unsophisti- ca... ...compatible with that manufacturable thing known as respectability. But are sailors, frequenters of “fiddlers’- greens,” without vices? No; but less of... ...ain Vere was an exceptional character. Unlike no few of England’s renowned sailors, long and arduous service with signal devotion to it, had not resul... ...on, singularly con- trasting with the red or deeply bronzed visages of the sailors, and in part the result of his official seclusion from the sunlight... ...nts opened to the invidious a vague field for unfavorable surmise. But the sailors’ dog-watch gossip concerning him de- rived a vague plausibility fro... ...e against whom they have a grudge, or for any reason or no reason mislike, sailors are much like landsmen; they are apt to exaggerate or romance it. A...

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...d the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter....

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...f conti- nents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval o... ...iately. I hastened on board and asked for Com- mander Farragut. One of the sailors conducted me to the poop, where I found myself in the presence of a... ...aily course, the rigging was crowded 16 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with sailors, whose feet were burnt to such an extent by the heat of the deck as... ...possible that they might meet the narwhal in this narrow pass. Many of the sailors affirmed that the monster could not pass there, “that he was too bi... ...beating the wa- ters of the Pacific. “Keep your eyes open!” called out the sailors. And they were opened widely. Both eyes and glasses, a little dazzl... ...f the vessel was crowded on a moment. The cabins poured forth a torrent of sailors and officers, each with heaving breast and troubled eye watching th... ...remained nothing but to return. This was represented to the commander. The sailors could not hide their discontent, and the service suffered. I will n... ... ship’s crew hurried towards the har- pooner—commander, officers, masters, sailors, cabin boys; even the engineers left their engines, and the stokers... ...t- est sailers in the American navy. A stubborn anger seized the crew; the sailors abused the monster, who, as before, disdained to answer them; the c...

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...t, had any ancient been carried thither by enterprise or stress of weather, he would not have given those islands so good a name. That the Neapolitan sailors of King Alonzo should have been wrecked here, I consider to be more likely....

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... he would not have given those islands so good a name. That the Neapolitan sailors of King Alonzo should have been wrecked here, I consider to be more...

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...smelling tobacco - on the other hand! Can anyone imagine two more incompatible things than a clean and bright woman and a dirty toy of alcoholics and sailors - tobacco! This conflict hit the author straight into his heart, so he couldn’t ignore it and wrote this amazing poem upon such a revelational theme.(Summary written by Yakovlev Valery)...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 28. Chapter V. Rapidan, the Ship. "Sailors from the beginning have laid special trust in reliable shipmates, because they know that when their ship is underway, whether they are awake, or asleep in their bunks, their safety depends on that portion of the crew ...

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...RY The one at the edge of the dock. This morning I saw him talking to the sailors in the harbor. HELENA Dr. Gall, that's Radius! DR. GALL Yes. R. U. ...

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...eading to widespread famine, claiming five million lives. A series of rebellions of sailors broke out, most famously in the Krohnstadt naval base. ...

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...fe. In the Odyssey, Homer describes the beautiful song of the Sirens, that sailors find irresistible even though they know that afterwards they will... ... how he can descend into Hades. - He could have, like many other reckless sailors, end up victims of the Sirens, and instead he finds a way to list...

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...scape our responsibility in countries overseas, it will not help. Just as the sailors on Jonah’s boat sensed that he was to blame for the storm tha...

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... the Indians.’ Rosita knew this game, which the children played: it had evolved from the tales of sailors and adventurers returning from the America...

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... John and Talbot found that they could make each other laugh like drunken sailors. They were ac- tually having fun, something neither of them had don...

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...docks with their escorts in tow, an addi- tional two-dozen of the King’s finest guards and sailors were also there waiting for them. “How are we goi...

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...emishes himself, and blemishes all the worlds. There is an allegory about sailors who were sailing in a boat. one fool among them rose and wished t...

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...hers to sea at the age of twelve in 1880. He spent only twelve years at sea for reasons given in this book. Thereafter, he became associated with the Sailors' Haven, Boston, Massachusetts and became its director. He was also a renowned Chantie singer and, in 1918, King's Book Of Chanties was published. King views the sailing life from before the mast, that is, through the ...

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... is persuaded from marrying the Naval officer of her heart. It is now almost nine years since she rejected him. Bonaparte has abdicated and England's sailors return home covered in glory. Fredrick Wentworth is now a rich and highly eligible sea captain and the two are curiously thrown together. Will their forgotten affection blossom anew? Or has the captain found another? ...

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...Sailors Sam Dunlap and Arthur check in to a New York hotel to await their mate Vern Engdahl when a girl shows up proposing to purchase Arthur. They need guys like Arthur to help run the city, and the fact that he fits in a sm...