Travels at HomeHarper & brothers, 1910 - 142 Seiten |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ain't bank began bend big bell Bixby bluff reef boat boat's boys By-and-by captain Carson City coach dead deck dollars feet flour flour-sack Gold Hill gone Gridley Gulf of Mexico half twain hand head heard horse hour hundred and fifty hundred miles Hyde Indians Island Jack land leadsmen look Louis MARK TWAIN mate memory minutes Mississippi Mississippi River Missouri Morgan mountain mouth Nevada never night Orleans passengers Paul Jones pilot pilot-house pipe of peace plain PONY EXPRESS pony-rider Posey County presently pretty quarter twain ranch river Roop sack sage-brush Salle San Francisco Sanitary seemed shoal shore side snag snatch Soto steamboat steamboatman stood stretched talk tell there's thing thoroughbrace thousand tion took town trip turned United States Attorney up-stream Virginia VIRGINIA CITY waited watch wheel WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS wonderful
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 25 - After all these years I can picture that old time to myself now, just as it was then : the white town drowsing in the sunshine of a summer's morning; the streets empty, or pretty nearly so ; one or two clerks sitting in front of the Water street stores, with their splint-bottomed chairs tilted back against the walls, chins on breasts, hats slouched over their faces, asleep — with shingle-shavings enough around to show what • Hannibal, Mo.
Seite 112 - IN a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the " pony-rider " — the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacramento, carrying letters nineteen hundred miles in eight days ! Think of that for perishable horse and human flesh and blood to do ! The pony- rider was usually a little bit of a man, brimful of spirit and endurance.
Seite 113 - ... beat" was a level straight road or a crazy trail over mountain crags and precipices, or whether it led through peaceful regions or regions that swarmed with hostile Indians, he must be always ready to leap into the saddle and be off like the wind! There was no idling-time for a pony-rider on duty.
Seite 45 - Bixby lifted his voice and the weightier his adjectives grew. When he closed the window he was empty. You could have drawn a seine through his system and not caught curses enough to disturb your mother with. Presently he said to me in the gentlest way— 'My boy, you must get a little memorandum book, and every time I tell you a thing, put it down right away.
Seite 25 - ... skids" on the slope of the stone-paved wharf, and the fragrant town drunkard asleep in the shadow of them,- two or three wood flats at the head of the wharf, but nobody to listen to the peaceful lapping of the wavelets against them; the great Mississippi, the majestic, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile- wide tide along, shining in the sun; the dense forest away on the other side,- the "point...
Seite 59 - 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 so closely as to brush the overhanging foliage with her 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 should strike it, and destroy a quarter...
Seite 38 - It also gave me a chance to get acquainted with a youth who had taken deck passage — more's the pity; for he easily borrowed six dollars of me on a promise to return to the boat and pay it back to me the day after we should arrive. But he probably died or forgot, for he never came. It was doubtless the former, since he had said his parents were wealthy, and he only traveled deck passage because it was cooler.* I soon discovered two things.
Seite 30 - Louis wharf, and humbly inquired for the pilots, but got only a cold shoulder and short words from mates and clerks. I had to make the best of this sort of treatment for the time being, but I had comforting day-dreams of a future when I should be a great and honored pilot, with plenty of money, and could kill some of these mates and clerks and pay for them.
Seite 39 - I soon discovered two things. One was that a vessel would not be likely to sail for the mouth of the Amazon under ten or twelve years; and the other was that the nine or ten dollars still left in my pocket would not suffice for so impossible an exploration as I had planned, even if I could afford to wait for a ship. Therefore it followed that I must contrive a new career. The Paul Jones was now bound for St.
Seite 34 - ... always where I could see and hear. He felt all the majesty of his great position, and made the world feel it, too. When he gave even the simplest order, he discharged it like a blast of lightning, and sent a long, reverberating peal of profanity thundering after it. I could not help contrasting the way in which the average landsman would give an order with the mate's way of doing it. If the landsman should wish the gangplank moved a foot farther forward, he would probably say: "James, or William,...