 Fully to realize the marvellous precision required in laying the great steamer in her marks in that murky waste of water, one should know that not only must she pick her intricate way through snags and blind reefs, and then shave the head of the island...  Travels at Home - Seite 59von Mark Twain - 1910 - 142 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1875 - 782 Seiten
...time, too, before his exploit ceased to be talked about by river men. Fully to realize the marvelous precision required in laying the great steamer in...stern, but at one place she must pass almost within arm's reach of a sunken and invisible wreck that would snatch the hull timbers from under her if she... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1901 - 506 Seiten
...time, too, before his exploit ceased to be talked about by river men. Fully to realize the marvelous precision required in laying the great steamer in...stern, but at one place she must pass almost within arm's reach of a sunken and invisible wreck that would snatch the hull timbers from under her if she... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1908 - 504 Seiten
...time, too, before his exploit ceased to be talked about by river men. Fully to realize the marvelous precision required in laying the great steamer in...stern, but at one place she must pass almost within arm's reach of a sunken and invisible wreck that would snatch the hull timbers from under her if she... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1903 - 504 Seiten
...time, too, before his exploit ceased to be talked about by river men. Fully to realize the marvelous precision required in laying the great steamer in...stern, but at one place she must pass almost within arm's reach of a sunken and invisible wreck that would snatch the hull timbers from under her if she... | |
 | Charles Whibley - 1908 - 360 Seiten
...and its shoals are things to fear and to fight. Fully to realise the marvellous precision {he writes] required in laying the great steamer in her marks...stern, but at one place she must pass almost within arm's reach of a sunken and visible wreck that would snatch the hull timbers from under her if she... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1917 - 544 Seiten
...time, too, before his exploit ceased to be talked about by river-men. Fully to realize the marvelous precision required in laying the great steamer in...stern, but at one place she must pass almost within arm's reach of a sunken and invisible wreck that would snatch the hull timbers from under her if she... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1917 - 536 Seiten
...time, too, before his exploit ceased to be talked about by river men. Fully to realize the marvelous precision required in laying the great steamer in...stern, but at one place she must pass almost within arm's reach of a sunken and invisible wreck that would snatch the hull timbers from under her if she... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1917 - 550 Seiten
...time, too, before his exploit ceased to be talked about by river-men. Fully to realize the marvelous precision required in laying the great steamer in...stern, but at one place she must pass almost within arm's reach of a sunken and invisible wreck that would snatch the hull timbers from under her if she... | |
 | Charles Swain Thomas - 1919 - 416 Seiten
...time, too, before his exploit ceased to be talked about by river men. Fully to realize the marvelous precision required in laying the great steamer in...stern, but at one place she must pass almost within arm's reach of a sunken and invisible wreck that would snatch the hull timbers from under her if she... | |
 | Ernest Clark Hartwell - 1921 - 440 Seiten
...time, too, before his exploit ceased to be talked about by rivermen. s Fully to realize the marvelous precision required in laying the great steamer in...the head of the island so closely as to brush the over-10 hanging foliage with her stern, but at one place she must pass almost within arm's reach of... | |
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