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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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...s to the king: they have letters for him. Ere we were two days old at sea, a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us chase. Finding ourselves too s... ... wood to stone, Convert his gyves to graces; so that my arrows, Too slightly timber’d for so loud a wind, Would have reverted to my bow again, And not...

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...he sand with a slight down- ward inclination, and being neatly shored with timbers. From my den, which faced the river-front, I was able to watch the ... ... that. Can’t you fill in the rest yourself? Make the hero save a girl on a pirate-galley and marry her or do something.” ‘Y ou’re a really helpful col...

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... who had put her body together on lovely lines out of the hardest tropical timber fastened with the purest copper. Goodness only knows in what part of... ... lieve. My opinion is that she was old enough to have been one of the last pirates, a slaver perhaps, or else an opium clipper of the early days, if n...

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... last I heard from him, he rather thought Weldon, of De Witt, was our best timber for repre- sentative, all things considered. But you there must sett... ...r questions of ad valorem or specific duties on foreign goods, or live-oak timber contracts, they are not fit to decide these vastly important matters... ...or, at the best, as no better than out- laws. Y ou will grant a hearing to pirates or murderers, but noth- ing like it to “Black Republicans.” In all ... ...you will say that this is a question exclusively our own. We treat them as pirates. They are our own citizens, or persons employed by our citizens, pr... ...commanders of suitable vessels to defend themselves against and to capture pirates. His author- ity has been exercised in a single instance only. For ... ... authorize the commanders of sailing vessels to recapture any prizes which pirates may make of United States vessels and their cargoes, and the consul... ...ho is required to build a bridge with a dull axe, a broken saw, and rotten timber. It is true that I have some very good green timber, which will answ...

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...d them in their mail. They made the wild fire ready and caused men to cast timber in the moat, till the deep fosse was filled. When this was done they... ... his own knife. Thus throughout Somerset and a great part of Dorset, these pirates spoiled and ravaged at their pleasure, finding none to hinder them ... ...g of Norway, and Gonfal, jarl of the lawless Orkneys, from whence sail the pirates in their ships. From the parts beyond the seas came Ligier, holding...

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... bas-relief the lower floor of most of them. In one place these transverse timbers are cov- ered with slate and mark a bluish line along the frail wal... ...ho- mas and bought, for a mere song, merchandise that had been captured by pirates, and took it to ports where he could sell it at a good price. If th...

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...y has advantages superior to any other nation in our resources of iron and timber, with inexhaustible quantities of fuel in the immediate vicinity of ... ... been removed or sus- pended from that position on a charge of having sold timber and stone from the island for his private benefit. Mr. Pickett is a... ...m Grant, Sherman, Thomas and Rosecrans satisfac- tory, but not important. Pirate Florida captured by the Wachusett October 7, on the coast of Brazil....

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...e the sea, which makes the atmo- sphere proportionally brisk and wholesome. There is little timber except pines, and the greater part of the country l... ...h critic he often caused unmixed distress. But the rest is the same; I could not finish The Pirate when I was a child, I have never finished it yet; P... ... but roads that had no 159 Robert Louis Stevenson beauty or interest; for, as there was no timber, and but little irregularity of surface, you saw yo...

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...d chains, ropes and rings, undermost parts of posts and piles and confused timber defences against the waves, lie strewn about, in a brown litter of t... ...ced rags of the bills of last year’s Circus, I came to a back field near a timber yard where the Circus itself had been, and where there was yet a sor... ...d that now chronicles these recollections—in which his father figured as a Pirate, and was shot for a voluminous catalogue of atrocities: first im pa... ...obvious. The leather trade will be ruined, by the introduction of American timber, to be manufactured into shoes for the fallen English; the Lord Mayo...

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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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...hich had been a barrier became a high- way, and at last out of a tangle of pirate polities came the great struggle of Carthage and Rome. The history o... ...h a purpose as hurling a missile. Their first guns had barrels of coopered timber, and the world waited for more than five hundred years before the ex... ...nt, now a half-submerged boat, now a cow, now a huge fragment of a house’s timberings, now a muddle of packing-cases and scaffolding. The things clapp...

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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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...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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...re fifty are making fifty thousand francs a year! Bah! I would sooner turn pirate on the high seas than have my soul shrivel up inside me like that. H... ...planter, to have slaves, to make a few snug millions by selling my cattle, timber, and tobacco; I want to live an absolute monarch, and to do just as ...

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... see the right propor- tion of sand, &c., know how to choose a good lot of timber, fit handles for tools, &c. ‘Many trades need not be attempted; but ... ... Wadrokala, his child- wife, and many of our boxes. We had to carry up the timber first from the beach, and it was rather hot work, as also the carpen... ...e blacks, the best way they can. The vessel takes be- sides 14,000 feet of timber, 6,000 shingles for roofing, and boxes of books, &c., &c., without e... ...be tied up in bundles of boarding, battens, about 14,000 or 15,000 feet of timber in all. Yesterday I was with the Primate; I went up indeed on Monday... ...er. Abundant supply of water, though the summer has been dry. ‘Much of the timber has been carted up, more has been stacked at the top of the hill. Th... ..., &c. ‘4. That all other vessels engaged in the trade should be treated as pirates, and confiscated summarily when caught. ‘5. That a small man-of-war...

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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...

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... base of the mansion; the field, wide as a park, dotted with its an- cient timber; the wood, dun and sere, divided by a path vis- ibly overgrown, gree... ...hing to an Italian bandit; and that could only be surpassed by a Levantine pirate.” “Well, whatever I am, remember you are my wife; we were married an... ...ust was well laid by the thunderstorm, and, where the low hedges and lofty timber trees on each side glistened 270 Jane Eyre green and rain-refreshed... ...f the manor-house, you could see nothing of it, so thick and dark grew the timber of the gloomy wood about it. Iron gates between granite pillars show...

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...neur, Arm at lordly bow on hip, Fingers trimming his moustachios, Eyes for pirate fellowship. III Home sat she that owned him master; Like the flower ... ... claim the tax. Nor foe thy blow, Though wood be good, And shriekingly the timber cracks: The ground we crowned Shall speed the seed Of younger into s...

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...brushwood; but it bore the marks of retrenchment; there was hardly a large timber tree on the estate, enclosures had been begun and deserted, and the ... ... don’t know, my Lord. Once you told me of some En- glish Sir, as kills the pirates, and is some sort of a king. I thought, may be, now you’d tell me w...