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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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...rave, Or Cooper of the wood and wave: So be it, also! And may I And all my pirates share the grave Where these and their creations lie! 4 Treasure Is... ...untry folk, and above all, with that filthy, heavy, bleared scarecrow of a pirate of ours, sitting, far gone in rum, with his arms on the table. Sudde... ...at when you first come in. Now, here it is: What could I do, with this old timber I hobble on? When I was an A B master mariner I’d have come up along... ...d something. “The score!” he burst out. “Three goes o’ rum! Why, shiver my timbers, if I hadn’t forgotten my score!” And falling on a bench, he laughe... ...e devil him- self. She’s sailed with England, the great Cap’n England, the pirate. She’s been at Madagascar, and at Malabar, and Surinam, and Providen... ... NOT I,” SAID SILVER. “Flint was cap’n; I was quarter- master, along of my timber leg. The same broadside I lost my leg, old Pew lost his deadlights. ... ...he’s dead now and un- der hatches; but for two year before that, shiver my timbers, the man was starving! He begged, and he stole, and he cut throats,... ...ntleman of fortune” they plainly meant neither more nor less than a common pirate, and the little scene that I had overheard was the last act in the c... ...e a goat yourself. Why , it makes me young again. I was going to forget my timber leg, I was. It’s a pleasant thing to be young and have ten toes, and...

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...ounded on the consid eration of his guarding and protecting the seas from pirates and robbers, is the right to royal fish, which are whale and sturgeo... ...9 The Sermon 55 He sees no black sky and raging sea, feels not the reeling timbers, and little hears he or heeds he the far rush of the mighty whale, ... ...lling out among them the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, as the three pirate powers did Poland. Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba up... ...rchant ships are but extension bridges; armed ones but floating forts; even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the road, th... ...aling, eh? — it looks a little suspicious, don’t it, eh? — Hast not been a pirate, hast thou? — Didst not rob thy last Captain, didst thou? — Dost not... ...atherless chil dren, and chancery wards; each owning about the value of a timber head, or a foot of plank, or a nail or two in the ship. People in Na... ...he Pequod; because, in form, he could be well likened to the short, square timber known by that name in Arctic whalers; and which by the means of many... ...that name in Arctic whalers; and which by the means of many radiating side timbers inserted into it, serves to brace the ship against the icy concussi... ...u would not catch me in a boat, unless maybe to stop the plug hole with my timber toe. Oh! he’s a wonderful old man!” “I don’t think it so strange, af...

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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... ... hideous sleep. He sees no black sky and raging sea, feels not the reeling timbers, and little hears he or heeds he the far rush of the mighty whale, ... ...ling out among them the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, as the three pirate powers did Poland. Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba up... ...chant ships are but extension bridges; armed ones but floating forts; even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the road, th... ...whaling, eh?—it looks a little suspi- cious, don’t it, eh?—Hast not been a pirate, hast thou?—Didst not rob thy last Captain, didst thou?—Dost not thi... ...atherless children, and chancery wards; each own- ing about the value of a timber head, or a foot of plank, or a nail or two in the ship. People in Na... ...he Pequod; because, in form, he could be well likened to the short, square timber known by that name in Arctic whal- ers; and which by the means of ma... ...at name in Arctic whal- ers; and which by the means of many radiating side timbers inserted into it, serves to brace the ship against the icy con- cus... ...u would not catch me in a boat, unless maybe to stop the plug-hole with my timber toe. Oh! he’s a wonderful old man!” “I don’t think it so strange, af...

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...e got it out of his own head. He said, some of it, but the rest was out of pirate books and robber books, and every gang that was high toned had it... ...as woody and there warn’t no houses but an old log hut in a place where the timber was so thick you couldn’t find it if you didn’t know where it was... ...and there was Jackson’s Island, about two mile and a half down stream, heavy timbered and standing up out of the middle of the river, big and dark and... ... never waited to blow, though I was most winded, but I shoved right into the timber where my old camp used to be, and started a good fire there on a ... ...e and a half below, as hard as I could go. I landed, and slopped through the timber and up the ridge and into the cavern. There Jim laid, sound asleep... ...t as thick as harrow teeth. We had mountains on the Missouri shore and heavy timber on the Illinois side, and the channel was down the Missouri shore... ... he begged him to speak to the people, and he done it. He told them he was a pirate — been a pirate for thirty years out in the Indian Ocean — and his... ...ack to the Indian Ocean, and put in the rest of his life trying to turn the pirates into the true path; for he could do it better than anybody else, ... ...ath; for he could do it better than anybody else, being acquainted with all pirate crews in that ocean; and though it would take him a long time to g...

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...was repugnant to him. Dantes had always entertained the greatest horror of pirates, who are hung up to the yard-arm; he would not die by what seemed a... ...ed. The red cap of one of the sailors hung to a point of the rock and some timbers that had formed part of the vessel’s keel, floated at the foot of t... ...n was formed. he swam to the cap, placed it on his head, seized one of the timbers, and struck out so as to cut across the course the vessel was takin... ...d drown his voice. It was then he rejoiced at his precaution in taking the timber, for without it he would have been unable, perhaps, to reach the ves... ...boat, rowed by two men, advanced rapidly towards him. Dantes let go of the timber, which he now thought to be useless, and swam vigorously to meet the... ...koned too much upon his strength, and then he realized how serviceable the timber had been to him. His arms became stiff, his legs lost their flexibil... ...gglers on the coast, and learned all the Masonic signs by which these half pirates recognize each other. He had passed and re-passed his Island of Mon... ...ugh uninhabited, yet serves occasionally as a refuge for the smugglers and pirates who come from Corsica, Sardinia, and Africa, and if it becomes know... ...” said he to the captain, “you tell me Monte Cristo serves as a refuge for pirates, who are, it seems to me, a very different kind of game from the go...

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...ail back again into Spain, whence he was also repulsed, and, some Cilician pirate ships joining with him, they made for the island of Pityussa, where ... ...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... ...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 ... ...waste the islands and seaport towns. So that now there embarked with these pirates men of wealth and noble birth and superior abilities, as if it had ... ...and having thus dispersed his power into all quarters, and encompassed the pirates ev- erywhere, they began to fall into his hands by whole shoals, 1... ... of one hundred and fifty thousand measures of wheat, and such a supply of timber as would enable them to build a hundred galleys. In this manner did ... ...ords done to displease you, that you should give your confidence to rotten timbers? Let Egyptians and Phoenicians contend at sea, give us the land, wh... ... on their sides, which were so strongly built with great squared pieces of timber, fastened together with iron bolts, that their vessels’ beaks would ...

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...xact than the structural integrity of a house. With a house: you can use new timbers, and new plaster to put it back together again. With the Univ... ... Read about the Medici’s. A banking family. That gave favours and money to pirates. Read how one of their clients who was formerly a pirate… bec... ... go to war? Why was it their main occupation? Because they had been roaming pirates and raiders for hundreds of years before they settled down and ... ... trickle-down theory is a trick… get it? During the last heyday of English Pirates: Captain Kidd was finally brought to justice as an outlaw priva... ...aptain Kidd was finally brought to justice as an outlaw privateer gone turned pirate. What was he hung for? For accidentally killing a mutinous sea... ...o their older cultural roots; when nearly everybody was a robber. They became pirate-states. Buccaneers. Financial pirates. Financial robbers. A... ...d. Or what today has been miscast and misrepresented as a cross of two wooden timbers. How fucking stupid, and how fucking blind can historians be ... ...etween it. Until a dying human was strung up on a living trees, and then dead timbers, and unnaturally nailed to the tree: recreating the pain of th...

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...listened but the next dream had already started. Since it starred a certain pirate, I thought my subconscious would forgive me. Love at First Stak... ...ince I was afraid to fall asleep. I hadn’t even been able to enjoy my dream pirate. He kept turning into Dream Donnie, who kept shaking his head be... ...ke that anymore? Ooohhhh! Rudolpho is moving through the night. Shiver me timbers, but I’m scared. Get real. “Make you a deal, hot stuff. You k...

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...ck to deck and even this space was encroached upon by two outlandish cross-timbers bracing the vessel, and by the sailors’ chests, over which you must... ...nging in the moonlight from the tops and lower yard-arms, like a parcel of pirates gibbeted at sea by a cruiser. Connected with this sort of diversion... ...ore morning. So what’s to be done? If we have to sew him up, some of those pirates there for’ard may take it into their heads to run off with the ship... ...n the trough of a sea, sprang to her keel again and showed play. Every old timber groaned—every spar buckled—every chafed cord strained; and yet, spit... ...y-headed men aboard,” returned Salem; “we’re all a parcel of mutineers and pirates!” All this time, the mate was holding his peace; and Wilson, now co... ...drowning to be done, I’ll pass the word; so away with ye, ye blood-thirsty pirates.” It was to no purpose that they begged or threatened: Jermin, alth... ...s of our crew, and beholding their an- tics, they must have taken us for a pirate; at any rate, they got out their sweeps, and pulled away as fast as ... ...finement are known among them. The stocks were nothing more than two stout timbers, about twenty feet in length, and precisely alike. One was placed e... ... foot. On going into the basement we looked clean up through the unbearded timbers to the roof; where rays of light, glim- mering through many a chink...

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... largest men of war, whereof some are nine feet long, in the woods where the timber grows, and has them carried on these en gines three or four hundr... ...low pillar of iron, about the length of a man, fastened to a strong piece of timber larger than the pillar; and upon one side of the pillar, were huge... ... other uses. I was at incredible pains in cut ting down some of the largest timber trees, for oars and masts, wherein I was, however, much assisted b... ...IB, AND JAPAN CHAPTER I The author sets out on his third voyage. Is taken by pirates. The malice of a Dutchman. His arrival at an island. He is receiv... ...ndition to defend ourselves. We were boarded about the same time by both the pirates, who entered furiously at the head of their men; but finding us a... ...e, as I sup pose, often using the word Christianos. The largest of the two pirate ships was commanded by a Japanese captain, who spoke a little Dutc... ...ance, than death itself. My men were sent by an equal division into both the pirate ships, and my sloop new manned. As to myself, it was determined th... ...d injurious terms his language could afford. About an hour before we saw the pirates I had taken an observation, and found we were in the latitude of ... ...ing travelled about three miles, we came to a long kind of building, made of timber stuck in the ground, and wattled across; the roof was low and cove...

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... damnable mur- der does not stain the memory of any brigand, buccaneer, or pirate; nor has any army, Huns, Vandals, or Mogul Tartars, ever polluted it... ...vailable in his day. It is too late to suggest that idea now. The princely pirates are gone; and the last dividend has been paid upon their booty; so ... ...ring-places; under any of these endowments, an island might be tempting to pirates, or to roving adventurers, or to remote overpeopled parts of Italy,... ...h some poisonous fungus of a nature to spread the dry rot through the main timbers of the vessel? And, in fact, such an enemy did come. This enemy spr...

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... to shut it, it was on the summit of a lofty eminence. Now every plank and timber creaked, as if the ship were made of wicker—work; and now crackled, ... ...mysteries of Gin sling, Cock tail, Sangaree, Mint Julep, Sherry—cob bler, Timber Doodle, and other rare drinks. The house is full of boarders, both m... ... his Black Eyed Susan; of Will Watch, the Bold Smuggler; of Paul Jones the Pirate, and the like: on which the painted eyes of Queen Victoria, and of W... ...ys we toiled up this foul stream, striking constantly against the floating timber, or stopping to avoid those more dangerous obstacles, the snags, or ... ...nd stop ping there to take in wood, lay alongside a barge, whose starting timbers scarcely held together. It was moored to the bank, and on its side ... ...eet. I saw many of these rafts afterwards, but never one so large. All the timber, or ‘lumber,’ as it is called in America, which is brought down the ...

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... thick of the throng, the lives of Measan, the bandit of Ohio, Murrel, the pirate of 4 The Confidence-Man the Mississippi, and the brothers Harpe, th... ... exasperating opponent by his shabby coat-collar, and shaking him till his timber-toe clattered on the deck like a nine-pin. “You took me for a non-co... ...vadoing mischievousness of Autolycus is slid into the world on humor, as a pirate schooner, with colors flying, is launched into the sea on greased wa... ...ing, myself. Still, I think that in case of a wreck, barring sharp-pointed timbers, you could have confidence in that stool for a special providence.”...

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...arkly to read. Opposition to him, was comparable to the stand of blocks of timber before flame. Colney Durance had done her the mischief we take from ... ... 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 ... ...g from below is perhaps preferable?’ said Colney. ‘As little-less.’ ‘But a pirate-tongue, cut-off from its roots, must continue to practise piracy, su... ...our countrymen. The North requires volumes to itself. The hard-grained old pirate-stock Northward has built the land, and is to the front when we are ...

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... of the Lake for Ben Venue, the Heart of Midlothian for Edinburgh, and the Pirate, so indifferently written but so romantically conceived, for the des... ...al plainness? Frankly, we should say, No. Bricks may be omitted, and green timber employed, in the construction of even a very elegant design; 35 Rob... ...city of hedges; by many stone walls of varying height; by a fair amount of timber, some of it well grown, but apt to be of a bushy, northern profile a...

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...d perform the part of speaking, he was a good deal diverted with the harsh timber tones which issued from him. But at this moment the door opened, and... ... cares to trouble him—smuggler, when his guns are in ballast—privateer, or pirate faith, when he gets them mounted. He has done more mischief to the r... ...y- ing, he flung himself upon the frail bed with a force that made all its timbers crack, and in a few moments gave au- dible signal that he was fast ... ...righter and more lively by some drier fuel, or perhaps some splintered fir-timber, which at once converted the smoke into flame. By such fitful irradi...

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...welt in the town of Pont de Montvert. He was a conscientious person, who seems to have been intended by nature for a pirate, and now fifty-five, an ag... ...s and chestnuts the ground had not only a very rapid slope, but was heaped with loose stones; and where there was no timber the hills descended to the...

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...other, of which many thousand have been printed, not to mention unnumbered pirated copies. Beside Hawthorne, Mr. Richard Henry Stoddard, of American w... ...to windward.’ Aye, and why should she, Jack? didn’t every one of her stout timbers grow on shore, and hasn’t she sensibilities; as well as we? Poor ol... ...erfectly agreeable—and his men stood ready to perform the duty.’ ‘Tell the Pirate your master,’ replied the spirited Englishwoman, pointing to the sta... ...iniquity of which might be considered almost sufficient to sink her guilty timbers to the bottom of the sea. Sometimes vague accounts of such thing’s ...

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...Old Curiosity Shop – Dickens 120 dens paled with staves of old casks, or timber pillaged from houses burnt down, and blackened and blistered by the ... ...ring the road, with many a summer house innocent of paint and built of old timber or some fragments of a boat, green as the tough cabbage stalks that ... ... Sally. ‘One of the legs is longer than the others.’ ‘Then we get a bit of timber in, Sir,’ retorted Brass. ‘Ha, ha, ha! We get a bit of timber in, Si... ... instructed Tom Scott to make a fire in the yard of sun dry pieces of old timber, and to prepare some coffee for breakfast; for the better furnishing... ...looking like a goblin or hideous idol whom the dwarf worshipped. A mass of timber on its head, carved into the dim and distant semblance of a cocked h... ..., tired of the ugly plaything, it flung it on a swamp—a dismal place where pirates had swung in chains through many a wintry night—and left it there t...

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...rts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish main and for centuries bid defiance to the armed fleets of all nations....

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...RIPTION OF THE RIOT OF MURDER, PILLAGE AND INHUMANITY WHICH CHARACTERIZED THE PIRATES, MAROONERS AND BUCCANEERS WHO RAVAGED THE SPANISH MAIN AND FOR... ... survivors turn freebooters -- English and French sailors and Colonists become pirates against Spanish ships Rapid increase in their numbers -- All th... ...om which he had escaped -- A massacre of the crew -- Other cruel and desperate pirates -- Cutting a Spaniard in two with one stroke of a cutlass -- Se... ...s attention towards Cuba -- Designs upon Puerto del Principe -- Landing of the pirates -- The Spanish cavalry attack the bandits -- A terrible battle ... ...1347 a vessel was sent from Iceland to the new country for a cargo of building-timber. Up to this time the colony had certainly flourished, and the ca... ...s to partially keep the pursuing Mexicans at bay. In the mean time, stones and timbers of every kind torn from demolished buildings were thrown into t... ...considerable town on the northern shore of the lake, where he put together the timbers of his fleet of thirteen brigantines, each of which he manned w... ... a Buccaneer ship, careened over on her side. The carpenters were caulking her timbers, and it was the sound of their busy hammers which first caught ... ...Spanish party of observation had camped, nothing was left but some smouldering timbers and the hides of a few bullocks that had been killed for food. ...

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...g for a swim. Suddenly, he faced me and shouted: “Over there...see them...pirate boats!” “What?” “Over there, the other way...those three boats...s... ... other way...those three boats...see the red shields at the bow...Turkish pirates...they’re attacking Mytilene. I’ll row for the beach. Hang on.” H... ... the bow high. I thought we would capsize but before I could make out the pirate ships he beached us and we scrambled ashore, drenched and shoeless.... ... rollers.” P Villa Poseidon 641 B.C. My girls still carry on about the pirate raid. Gyrinno found a short sword and brought it to me. “Look, I s... ...e and Alcaeus had bellowed over their victory. Victory? I pushed away the pirate’s sword, and said: “It would be better if there were no pirates.” ... ...terment—and beyond that! The pioneer has this in his mind, as he hacks at timber, removes stumps, sprouts corn. Deep inside me, like a blue pool, I ... ...u- LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 535 nicated through transit and tapes, through timberland acreage. They arranged life in useable proportions. This was a ...

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...of an English Opium-Eater rapidly approaching him. Suddenly the supporting timbers below him gave way; a convulsive heave of the billowing flames seem... ...nd, please the wind, will take up such a position as to rake both of these pirates by turns. The two dialogists are introduced walking out after break... ...the water. After such plain speaking, nobody can wonder much at the junior pirate (Landor) muttering, ‘It will be difficult for us always to refrain.’...

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...he river steamboats as they beat the filthy water, at the floating logs of timber lashed together lying off certain wharves, his shining eyes darted a... ...ehind Mrs Higden’s chair, with great valour on both sides, those desperate pirates returned hand-in-hand to their stools, across the dry bed of a moun... ...r. They found a tree near by in a corner, and a blacksmith’ s forge, and a timber yard, and a dealer’s in old iron. What a rusty portion of a boiler a... ...nap) is a man of wealth. Conse- quently says he, ‘And, gentlemen, when the timbers of the Vessel of the State are unsound and the Man at the Helm is u... ... lovers to the altar, might have been fancied to inflame the ardour of his timber toes. Be it as it might, he gave his moor- ings the slip, and follow... .... ‘But you wouldn’ t have fetched a bundle under your arm, from among that timber, if such was your game!’ said Riderhood. Nevertheless it was a relie...

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... crammle aboon the grees, for there be a many of ‘em, and miss, I lack belly timber sairly by the clock.” He hobbled away, and I could see him hurry... ...it!” I went over and read, “Edward Spencelagh, master mariner, murdered by pirates off the coast of Andres, April, 1854, age 30.” When I came back M...

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...fishermen, which crew will annoy me immensely, whilst if, by chance, there were among you any who have seen the sea —” “Oh! don’t let that trouble you... ...boat like an admiral.” “See,” said D’Artagnan, “what an admirable thing chance is!” D’Artagnan pronounced these words with an indefin- able tone of fe... ...moment the man with the feathers ceased to gesticulate, and, with his hands placed upon his knees, was following, half-bent, the effort of six workmen...

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...,” he said. “In a beastly little channel she hadn’t no business in—dodging pirates. It was before they’d put the kybosh on that business. And there’d ... ...ered houses and sheds, its creeper-invaded sugar-mill, its little jetty of timber and canes, was very still in the morning heat, and showed never a si...

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...med to have been there for a very great while; for the resemblance to boat timbers could scarcely be traced. “Well, Jupiter picked up the parchmen... ... I reply that the skull, or death’s-head, is the well- known emblem of the pirate. The flag of the death’s head is hoisted in all engagements. “I ... ...d link in your chain—you will not find any especial connexion between your pirates and a goat—pirates, you know, have nothing to do with goats; they a... ...stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders. Had the pirate recovered his money, there the affair would have dropped. It seemed ... ...in which a secret of this kind would most naturally have been written by a pirate of the Span- ish main. As it was, I assumed the cryptograph to be En... ... immerse the whole head, while the accidental aid of the smallest piece of timber will enable us to elevate the head so as to look about. Now, in the ... ...ds, in such a manner as to afford me a convenient retreat between the huge timbers of the ship. I had scarcely completed my work, when a footstep in t... ... long ago. * * * * * * * * I have been looking at the timbers of the ship. She is built of a material to which I am a stranger. T...

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... proved to be my own. It appeared that one of the 12 Poe in Five V olumes timber-bolts having started and broken a passage through the copper, it had... ...ng hold of him it was found that he was attached by a rope to the floating timber. This rope, it will be remembered, I had myself tied around his wais... ..., was lifted, by the force of the water rushing in, entirely from the main timbers, and floated (with other fragments, no doubt) to the surface—August... ...se boards strong tem- porary stanchions should be erected, reaching to the timbers above, and thus securing every thing in its place. In cargoes consi... ...ng, Greely and Allen, had gone over to the mate, and were resolved to turn pirates. He put several questions to Augustus which he did not then exactly... ...gged as I have never seen one rigged either before or since. Down its main timber there ran a succession of stout iron hooks, and others in the same m...

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...our yards would spread, or our masts carry , to get clear; but finding the pirate gained upon us, and would certainly come up with us in a few hours, ... ...mock upon. NOV . 2. – I set up all my chests and boards, and the pieces of timber which made my rafts, and with them formed a fence round me, a little... .... MAY 10-14. – Went every day to the wreck; and got a great many pieces of timber, and boards, or plank, and two or three hundredweight of iron. MAY 1... ...e 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 wate... ...p, that I might be ready when it was ebbed out; and by this time I had got timber and plank and ironwork enough to have built a good boat, if I had kn... ... and two more cutting off the boughs, and reducing it to a log or piece of timber. With inexpressible hacking and hewing I reduced both the sides of i... ...em, I wanted to know what they had to say why I should not execute them as pirates taken in the fact, as by my com- mission they could not doubt but I...

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...e miner, the builder of the furnace for smelting the ore the feller of the timber, the burner of the charcoal to be made use of in the smelting- house... ...iderable rent. In many parts of Scotland and Wales it affords none. Barren timber for building is of great value in a populous and well-cultivated cou... ...od which, for want of roads and water-carriage, can be sent to market; the timber is left to rot upon the ground. When the materials of lodging are so... ... scarce employ his best lands more advanta- geously than in growing barren timber, of which the greatness of the profit often compensates the lateness... ... conveniently be had for fuel, it may sometimes be cheaper to bring barren timber for build- ing from less cultivated foreign countries than to raise ... ...le than it really was. The French colony of St. Domingo was established by pirates and freebooters, who, for a long time, neither required the protec-... ...ies with which it is carried on. The protection of trade, in general, from pirates and freebooters, is said to have given occasion to the first instit...

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...; the other a gibbet, with some chains hanging to it which had once held a pirate. The man was limping on towards this latter, as if he were the pi- r... ...f drifting down the river on a strong spring-tide, to the Hulks; a ghostly pirate calling out to me through a speaking-trum- pet, as I passed the gibb... ...have struck it out of flint and steel, and have made a noise like the very pirate him- self rattling his chains. As soon as the great black velvet pal... ... recognized – “it was all said and done in half a minute, behind a pile of timber in the Dockyard – ‘Y ou’re a-going to be discharged?’ Yes, I was. Wo... ...ough for years off duty, what mountainous country of accumulated casks and timber, how many rope-walks that were not the Old Green Copper. After sever... ...f her head, in and out, hammers going in shipbuilders’yards, saws going at timber, clashing engines going at things unknown, pumps going in leaky ship...

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...tion; said it was abnormal. She was all right, not a scratch on her, not a timber started any where. I said it was wonderful, while we were greasing ... ...proached by a serpeant, would not excuse herself and break for the nearest timber. He did not answer my ques tion, but rebuked me for inquiring into ... ...ensibly) author of the same. Some of these, in these years and later, were pirated, but he made no protest. Then—1610 11—he returned to Stratford and ... ...states men, generals, admirals, discoverers, prize fighters, mur derers, pirates, conspirators, horse jockeys, bunco steerers, misers, swindlers, ex...

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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...

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...sed and drank sweet wine; A herdsman came from inland valleys, Crying, the pirates drove his swine To fill their dark beaked hollow galleys. I called m... ...ling vale and rivery glen; And under the blinking of the stars Fell on the pirates by the deep, And hurled them in the gulph of sleep: These hands won... ...e. Were not our beds far off I’d ring the bell, Stand under the rough roof timbers of the hall Beside the castle door, where all is stark Austerity, a... ...rk declivities. A WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD 285 VIII HER VISION IN THE WOOD DRY timber under that rich foliage, At wine dark midnight in the sacred wood, T... ...ons, ake but poor shows, Because children demand Daddy long legs upon This timber toes, Because women in the upper storeys demand a face at the pane, ...

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...elf is not an ideal. A successful highwayman showed courage of a sort, and pirate crews have been known to fight with courage or per- haps only with r... ...s blown down by the wind, a great strong piece of wood, a baulk of squared timber, was displaced several feet as if by enchantment. I looked at my com... ...good strong wooden quay shaken loose, iron bolts snapped, a baulk of stout timber splintered. Now, suppose that quay had been of granite (as surely it...

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...ch had been sent to all the European courts. “Bonaparte treats Europe as a pirate does a captured vessel,” said Count Rostopchin, repeating a phrase h... ...azaar and the Povarskoy, as well as the barges on the Moskva River and the timber yards by the Dorogomilov Bridge, were all ablaze. Pierre’s way led t... ...osseum. The cabmen he met and their passengers, the carpenters cutting the timber for new houses with axes, the women hawkers, and the shopkeepers, al...

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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...