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...oating prosperity, the river from end to end was flaked with coal fleets and timber rafts, all managed by hand, and employing hosts of the rough char ... ...then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. These ambitions faded out, each in its turn; but the ambition to... ...ithin arm’s reach of a sunken and invisible wreck that would snatch the hull timbers from under her if she should strike it, and destroy a quarter of ... ... know the shape of a shore perfectly you would claw away from every bunch of timber, because you would take the black shadow of it for a solid cape; a... ...ght is gone. Of course, on the great rise, down came a swarm of prodi gious timber rafts from the head waters of the Mississippi, coal barges from Pi... ...hutes like that of 82, where the opening at the foot was an unbroken wall of timber till our nose was almost at the very spot. Some of these chutes we... ...ren; passing by an old cemetery where we were told lie the ashes of an early pirate; but we took him on trust, and did not visit him. He was a pirate ... ...d little by little he has come into respect again; but it is respect for the pirate, not the alderman. To day the loyal and generous remember only wha...

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...d, but had grown yellow and discoloured like an old man’s skin; the sturdy timbers had decayed like teeth; and here and there the ivy, like a warm gar... ... before. By this flickering light, which made the old room, with its heavy timbers and panelled walls, look as if it were built of polished ebony—the ... ...ns in dumb respect. 73 Charles Dickens ‘If I had been born a corsair or a pirate, a brigand, gen teel highwayman or patriot—and they’re the same thi... ...e between his life and death. If you refuse, he swings. If you comply, the timber is not grown, nor the hemp sown, that shall do him any harm.”’ ‘Ther...

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...e bears the accusation. I am told, again, that they are of the race of river pirates, and belong to the most despised and dangerous class in the Celes... ... dangerous class in the Celestial Empire. But if this be so, what remarkable pirates have we here! and what must be the virtues, the industry, the edu... ...he truck system, in full operation. Men live there, year in year out, to cut timber for a nominal wage, which is all consumed in supplies. The longer ... ...wered in the negative. It does not occur to the child as he plays at being a pirate on the dining-room sofa, nor to the hunter as he pursues his quarr...

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...into place, snorting and backing and grunting as an elephant grunts in the timber-yard. Riveters by the hundred swarmed about the lattice side-work an... ... an’ the Aglaia, at this most alarmin’ crisis. We’ve been no bet- ter than pirates these ten years. Under Providence we’re no worse than thieves now. ... ... small, newish switching-engine, with a little step in front of his bumper-timber, and his wheels so close together that he looked like a broncho gett... ...ou give me the drink for?” They drifted under the great twelve-inch pinned timbers of the foot-bridge towards the bench, and, I gathered, the time was...

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...requently seeing the ship carpenters, after hewing, and getting a piece of timber ready for use, write on the timber the name of that part of the ship... ...e name of that part of the ship for which it was intended. When a piece of timber was intended for the larboard side, it would be marked thus— “L.” Wh... ...these letters, and for what they were intended when placed upon a piece of timber in the ship-yard. I im- mediately commenced copying them, and in a s... ...fore! I felt myself surrounded by so many fiends from perdition. A band of pirates never looked more like their father, the devil. They laughed and gr... ...strike my ear at the same moment. It was—“Fred., come help me to cant this timber here.”— “Fred., come carry this timber yonder.”— “Fred., bring that ... ...go get a fresh can of wa- ter.”— “Fred., come help saw off the end of this timber.”— “Fred., go quick, and get the crowbar.”—”Fred., hold on the end o... ...he had the power to compel me to give it up. The right of the grim-visaged pirate upon the high seas is exactly the same. CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XI CHAPTE... ...o feel when he is res- cued by a friendly man-of-war from the pursuit of a pirate. In writing to a dear friend, immediately after my arrival at New Yo...

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...ne head, a leonine face, a rough voice, and an eye which was some times a pirate’s and sometimes a woman’s, according to the mood. He knew nothing ab... ...I was up country trapping on the North Shore of the Erie; caught it in the timber a couple of miles from our dug out— or it might have been four, she ...

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...ed ship, with a stern gallery; for the win- dows are ship built with heavy timbering, and run right across the room as continuously as the stability o... ... CAPTAIN. Dunn! I had a boatswain whose name was Dunn. He was originally a pirate in China. He set up as a ship’s chandler with stores which I have ev... ...TOVER. You are still less under sixty. Boss Mangan, you will not marry the pirate’s child [he carries the tray away into the pantry]. 61 GB Shaw MANG... ...nto the pantry]. 61 GB Shaw MANGAN [following him to the half door]. What pirate’s child? What are you talking about? CAPTAIN SHOTOVER [in the pantry... ...at are you? MAZZINI [taken aback]. What am I? CAPTAIN SHOTOVER. A thief, a pirate, and a murderer. MAZZINI. I assure you you are mistaken. CAPTAIN SHO... ...hrough the garden]. DUNN. I hope nobody here believes that I am a thief, a pirate, or a murderer. Mrs Hushabye, will you excuse me a moment? I must re... ... of the drunken skipper’s ship on the rocks, the splintering of her rotten timbers, the tearing of her rusty plates, the drown- ing of the crew like r...

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... Yards would spread, or our Masts carry, to have got clear; but finding the Pirate gain’d upon us, and would certainly come up with us in a few Hours, ... ...Hammock upon. Nov. 2. I set up all my Chests and Boards, and the Pieces of Timber which made my Rafts, and with them form’d a Fence round me, a little... ...12, 13, 14. Went every Day to the Wreck, and got a great deal of Pieces of Timber, and Boards, or Plank, and 2 or 300 Weight of Iron. May 15. I carry’... ... Wind blowing from the Shore, nothing came to Land that Day, but Pieces of Timber, and a Hogshead which had some Brazil Pork in it, but the Salt water... ...that I might be ready when it was ebb’d out, and by this Time I had gotten Timber, and Plank, and Iron Work enough, to have builded a good Boat, if I ... ..., and two more cutting off the Bows, and reducing it to a Log, or Piece of Timber. With inexpressible hacking and hewing I reduc’d both the Sides of i... ...m, I wanted to know what they had to say, why I should not execute them as Pirates taken in the Fact, as by my Commission they could not doubt I had A...

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... when he sailed north about Scotland on the famous cruise that gave us the pirate and the Lord of the Isles; I was with him, too, on the Bell Rock, in... ...y-made, or will have one in- stantly on the stocks, and proceed to lay its timbers and launch it in your presence. “Let me see,” he will say. “Give me... ...ear before in a work of Miss Yonge’s. My first perusal was in one of those pirated editions that swarmed at that time out of Brussels, and ran to such... ...w of Herculean proportions striding along the beach; he, to be sure, was a pirate. This was further afield than my home- keeping fancy loved to travel... ...ance of the incidents. T o deal with strong and deadly elements, banditti, pirates, war and murder, is to conjure with great names, and, in the event ... ...sses adorn and disfigure the novels. In that ill-written, ragged book, The Pirate, the fig- ure of Cleveland – cast up by the sea on the resounding fo...

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...e, and make no shew of anything, but of that which he hath made himselfe. Pirates, pilchers, and borrowers, make a shew of their purchases and build... ...us invented in Siracusa, to shoot and cast mightie big arrowes, or rather timber-peaces, and huge-great stones, so farre and with such force, did gr... ... and that he may have the victorie of all his desseignes. The theefe, the pirate, the murtherer, yea and the traitor, all call upon him, all implore ... ...saith he, 'tractable and milde in matters of revenge. Having compelled the pirates to yeeld themselves unto him, who had before taken him prisoner an... ...ill speedily with all diligence bring great store of stones and peeces of timber that so they may helpe to recover him out againe. But this beast ha...

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...manned the slip rope which came through the stern port with a turn round the timber heads. ‘‘All ready forward?’’ asked the captain. ‘‘Aye, aye, sir; ... ...yield again, their punishment must come; and if they do not yield, they are pirates for life. If a sailor resist his commander, he resists the law, ... ... and goods, and this time succeeded in finding a part of a volume of Scott’s Pirate, in a corner of the house; but it failed me at a most interesting... ...e had got safe off from the breakers, and was too good a sailor to risk his timbers again. Though I knew what his life had been, yet I never had... ...ecastle, or sat upon the windlass, and sung sea songs, and those ballads of pirates and highwaymen, which sailors delight in. Home, too, and what we... ... looking spot is said to have been, for a long time, the resort of a band of pirates, who ravaged the tropical seas. Thursday, August 18th. At t... ...out knowing anything of their crews, until they get out at sea. There may be pirates or mutineers among them; and one bad man will often infect all t... ...ere experimenting on building a despatch boat, the Saginaw, of California timber. I have no excuse for attempting to describe my visit throug...