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... canal. Scylla and Charybdis face each other in the Strait of Messina. The boats and ships that want to pass through the strait have a very hard tim...

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...Kabbalah. Q: We can compare our situation in this world to sailing in a small boat that is carried away in a mighty stream. We are unable to do anyt... ...come to? A: We can escape disaster only if we add an engine of our own to the boat, called a “screen.” The Kabbalah helps us acquire that screen. Wi...

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...tain. Everything. Hell, decades ago a guy named Jules Verne wrote about a boat that went underwater. Everyone said that was crazy talk until the sub...

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...forpreni ĝin de li, kaj revenu kiel eble plej baldaŭ. ” Do la tri musoj faris boaton por si kaj ekvelis al la lando de la magiisto. Atinginte laĉefurb... ...s al la palaco, postlasante nur la blindan muson sur la bordo por prizorgi la boaton. Post tio ili atendisĝis la nokto. La magiisto kuŝiĝis en sia lit... ...ensrapide la lama muso kaptis la valoregan talismanon kaj forportis ĝin al la boato. Imagu la malesperon de la magiisto kiam li vekiĝis kaj la bronza ... ... ili ĉiuj kriis samtempe. “Mi, ” diris la blinda muso, “ĉar sen mia gardo nia boato estus drivinta en la vastan maron. ” “Tute ne, ” kriis la muso kun... ...i tiu dizerta insulo kaj tie n u niajn mizerajn vivojn. ” Dirite, farite. La boato atingis la insulon, kaj la musoj surteriĝis. 10 LA BRONZA RINGO ... ...as la bronza ringo! Estas la talismano!” ili kriis goje, kaj, reenirinte sian boaton, ili baldaŭ atingis la insulon de musoj. Estis ĝustatempe, ĉar la... ...n, kaj tuj la ŝipo fendiĝis. Ses ŝipanoj, el kiuj mi estis unu, surmarigis la boat- on, liberiĝis de la ŝipo, kaj ni remis ĉirkaŭ 15 kilometrojn, ĝis ... ...n al la ondoj; kaj post eble duona horo la vento per subita bato renversis la boaton. Kio poste okazis al miaj kunuloj en la boato, aŭ tiuj kiuj eskap... ...d- orienta bordo de la insulo, mi observis tre for en la maro ion aspektantan boato renversita. Mi detiris miajn ŝuojn kaj ŝtrumpojn, kaj vadinte du-t...

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...the Tana (Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai) described the Arvut as two people on a boat, when one of them began to drill a hole in the boat. His friend asked...

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...nly went aboard the Lady Vain at Callao, and who had been considered drowned, was picked up in latitude 5' 3 S. and longitude 101' W. in a small open boat of which the name was illegible, but which is supposed to have belonged to the missing schooner Ipecacuanha....

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... was picked up in latitude 5' 3" S. and longitude 101' W . in a small open boat of which the name was illegible, but which is supposed to have belonge... ...em. We could not stand up to look about us, because of the pitching of the boat. The two other men who had escaped so far with me were a man named Hel... ... the first day we said little to one another, and lay in our places in the boat and stared at the horizon, or watched, with eyes that grew larger and ... .... I stood out against it with all my might, was rather for scut- tling the boat and perishing together among the sharks that followed us; but when Hel... ...his hands. They grappled together and almost stood up. I crawled along the boat to them, intending to help Helmar by grasp- ing the sailor’s leg; but ... ...asp- ing the sailor’s leg; but the sailor stumbled with the swaying of the boat, and the two fell upon the gunwale and rolled overboard together. They... ... in my face, for my voice was inaccessible to me. “You were picked up in a boat, starving. The name on the boat was the `Lady Vain,’ and there were sp... ...d like a dirty skin-purse full of loose bones, and all the business of the boat came back to me. “Have some of this,” said he, and gave me a dose of s... ...esitation, “you know I’m dying to hear of how you came to be alone in that boat. Damn that howling!” I thought I detected a certain suspi- cion in his...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Eilean Aros. It was a beautiful morning in the late July when I set forth on foot for the last time for Aros. A boat had put me ashore the night before at Grisapol; I had such breakfast as the little inn afforded, and, leaving all my baggage till I had an occasion to come round for it by sea, struck right across the promontory with a c...

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...AUTIFUL MORNING in the late July when I set forth on foot for the last time for Aros. A boat had put me ashore the night before at Grisapol; I had suc... ...t coun- try, two storeys high. It looked westward over a bay, with a pier hard by for a boat, and from the door you could watch the vapours blowing on... ...of the poisonous viper of the land. On calm days you can go wandering between them in a boat for hours, echoes following you about the labyrinth; but ... ... tide begins to run again, and above all in heavy weather, there is no man could take a boat within half a mile of it, nor a ship afloat that could ei... ...he Hebrideans. And, indeed, I think he had some claim to be called saint; for, with the boats of that past age, to make so rough a passage, and land o... ...d there was nothing for it but to stand on the far shore and whistle for Rorie with the boat. I had no need to repeat the signal. At the first sound, ... ...like of it unknown in all our waters, followed for some years the passage of the ferry- boat, until no man dared to make the crossing. ‘He will be wai... ...changes. The garden was fenced with the same wood that 11 Merry Men I had noted in the boat; there were chairs in the kitchen covered with strange br... ...ermaids, and sea-horses that had come ashore upon the islands and attacked the crews of boats upon the sea; and my uncle, in spite of his incredulity,...

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... window coming off to dine in the dinghy of a fourteen-ton yawl belonging to Marlow my host and skipper. We helped the boy we had with us to haul the boat up on the landing-stage before we went up to the riverside inn, where we found our new acquaintance eating his dinner in dignified loneliness at the head of a long table, white and inhospitable like a snow bank....

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...o Marlow my host and skipper. We helped the boy we had with us to haul the boat up on the landing-stage before we went up to the riverside inn, where ... ...der- ably.” Marlow smiled. “I’ve seen her, at least once.” “The finest sea-boat ever launched,” declared Mr. Powell sturdily. “Without exception.” “Sh... ...ntinue: with such disposition what prevents women—to use the phrase an old boatswain of my acquaintance applied descriptively to his captain—what pre-... ...en him up. I did not like to be beaten. That’s why I hired Dingle’s decked boat. There was just the accommoda- tion in her to sleep a man and a dog. B... ...arefully I did not know of their existence. One afternoon, I made Powell’s boat out, heading into the shore. By the time I got close to the mud- flat ... ... good luck than by good manage- ment. The sun had set some time before; my boat glided in a sort of winding ditch between two low grassy banks; on bot... ...t was. I hailed him with a loud shout. Got no answer. After making fast my boat just astern, I walked along the bank to have a look at Powell’s. Being... ...pected and lonely places. “The stillness was oppressive. I went back to my boat, made some coffee over a spirit-lamp, devoured a few biscuits, and str... ...nk as though he meant to step on board, stretched his muzzle right over my boat, blew heavily once, and walked off contemptuously into the dark- ness ...

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...1. The Dedication: to Cornelius 2. Tears for Lesbia’s Sparrow 2b. Atalanta 3. The Death of Lesbia’s Sparrow 4. His Boat 5. Let’s Live and Love: to Lesbia 6. Flavius’s Girl: to Flavius 7. How Many Kisses: to Lesbia 8. Advice: to himself 9. Back from Spain: to Veranius 10. Home Truths for Varus’s girl: to Varus 11. Words against Lesb...

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...PART I: UP AGAINST THE DRAFT 1. Steward brings his 1-A letter to the boat club 2. Brandt and Morris argue about the Vietnam war 3. O’Rourke steps in to bring the crew on task 4. Morris offers Steward a way out of the draft 5. Brandt asks about his dad’s experience in World War Two 6. Bran...

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...Excerpt: At a dimly remote period in the history of Brabant, communication between the Island of Cadzand and the Flemish coast was kept up by a boat which carried passengers from one shore to the other. Middelburg, the chief town in the island, destined to become so famous in the annals of Protestantism, at that time only numbered some two or three hundred hearths; a...

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...ation between the Island of Cadzand and the Flemish coast was kept up by a boat which carried passengers from one shore to the other. Middelburg, the ... ...is own pasturage, and the task of separating the tares from the wheat. The boat that served to carry passengers from the Island of Cadzand to Ostend w... ...t surrounded the open country, or among the tall reeds of the marshes. The boat was full. “What are you waiting for? Let us put off!” they cried. Just... ...h, like a peasant who had laid himself down on the ground to wait till the boat should start, and had slept till the sound of the horn awakened him. W... ...house or the police? As soon as the man appeared on the jetty to which the boat was moored, seven persons who were standing in the stern of the shallo... ...noise, and talked among themselves as though there were no one else in the boat; yet close beside them sat a man of great importance in the district, ... ...t each other, was separated from the passengers in the forward part of the boat by the bench of rowers. The belated traveler glanced about him as he s... ...ations of respect that provoked scornful tittering at the other end of the boat. An old soldier, inured to toil and hardship, gave up his place on the... ...ose traverse beams, like the backbone of a fish, that hold the planks of a boat together. A young mother, who bore her baby in her arms, and seemed to...

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...Some time after Three Men in a Boat, George, Harris and Jerome decided to go on a cycling holiday through Germany.This relaxed and gently humorous story of the three friends wandering in and around the Black Forest is coloured by anecdotes, odd tales and J...

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...of a plain and downright homely heroine? Isn't a heroine by definition beautiful? Well, Edna Ferber, in her well known style that later produced Show Boat and Giant, tells us about just such a heroine in the first of these four special short stories. They are special to me because of their insight into the deep courage and faith of 'ordinary' people, people like most of us...

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...This 1904 maritime adventure is set in the Great Lakes region, upon water and in wood. Our hero is caught in a smuggling scheme and may lose his boat and his sweetheart. With a fast pace and interesting plot, the story is made realistic with very modern bad-guys. (Summary by Brenda Price)...

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...e Land That Time Forgot is a science fiction novel, the first of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Caspak trilogy. His working title for the story was The Lost U-Boat. Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, the story ultimately develops into that of a fantastical lost world. (Adapted from Wikipedia.)...

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...Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone in a small boat. He personally rebuilt an 11.2 metre sloop-rigged fishing boat that he named the Spray. On April 24, 1895, he set sail from Boston, Massachusetts. More than three years later, he returned to Newport, Rhode Island, on Jun...

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...peedboat in its escape. “Hope he makes it, whatever he’s been doing.” shouts Stef in excitement. “Probably speeding and scaring the locals in a boat like that.” laughs Simon. “Wrong time of day to be doing any smuggling.” confirms Stef, seeing Nicola behind them he asks; “Did you see that Nic?” “Don’t see what all the excitement is about; apart from a boat esca...

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...ter they arrived in that new world, In spite of his dissuasion, seized a boat, 32 LyricalBallads I And all alone, set sail by silent moonlight ... ...ain fold Saw on the distant lake his twinkling oar Or watch’d his lazy boat still less’ning more and more My father was a good and pious man, ... ...LINES LINES LINES LINES LINES W W W W W ritten when sailing in a Boat At EVENING ritten when sailing in a Boat At EVENING ritten when sailin... ... EVENING ritten when sailing in a Boat At EVENING ritten when sailing in a Boat At EVENING ritten when sailing in a Boat At EVENING ritten when sailin... ... EVENING ritten when sailing in a Boat At EVENING ritten when sailing in a Boat At EVENING How rich the wave, in front, imprest With evening twili... ...vening twilights summer hues, While, facing thus the crimson west, The boat her silent path pursues! And see how dark the backward stream! A l... ...eard the pilot’s cheer: My head was turn’d perforce away And I saw a boat appear. The pilot, and the pilot’s boy I heard them coming fast:... ...t is the moss, that wholly hides The rotted old Oak stump. The Skiff boat ner’d: I heard them talk, “Why, this is strange, I trow! Where a... ...“I am a fear’d.”—“Push on, push on!” “Said the Hermit cheerily.” The Boat came closer to the Ship, But I nor spake nor stirr’d! The Boat c...

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...ed if he felt her up in the water and fucked her afterwards her mates would stop spreading rumours he was queer. The cars screeched to a halt at the boat ramp. Everyone piled out and headed for the small beach until Bob’s girlfriend reckoned there’d be eels and leeches in the river, so she refused to go down. Then the others also chickened out, saying it was too dark, pro...

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...nd, in Blackpool and the two go off for what they believe to be secret fling in Llandudno. But after the death of Fanny's friend, Mary, in a pleasure boat accident at Blackpool the secret is revealed and the the two families are thrown into disarray. The leading light of the so-called Manchester School of realist dramatists, Stanley Houghton wrote Hindle Wakes in 1911 and ...