The Naval Annual: Or, Stories of the Sea for M.DCCC.XXXVI. Containing The Pirate, and The Three Cutters

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Longmans, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1836 - 315 Seiten
 

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Seite 28 - Dont waste your time at family funerals grieving for your relatives: attend to life, not to death: there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and better.
Seite 25 - Grecian champion, when enveloped in unnatural clouds and darkness, is the appropriate political supplication for the people of every country not yet blessed with free institutions : — "Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore, Give me TO SEE, — and Ajax asks no more.
Seite 130 - This was all very delightful ; and it so happened that Edward had four or five times contrived, during the last year, to meet Clara without discovery and again and again to exchange his vows. It was agreed between them that, when he quitted the station, she should quit her father and her home, and trust her future happiness to an Englishman and a heretic. It may be a matter of surprise to some of our readers that the admiral should not have discovered the frequent visits of the Enterprise...
Seite 254 - Smugglers do not arm now — the service is too dangerous; they effect their purpose by cunning, not by force. Nevertheless, it requires that smugglers should be good seamen, smart, active fellows, and keen-witted, or they can do nothing. This vessel has not a large cargo in her, but it is valuable. She has some thousand yards of lace, a few hundred pounds of tea, a few bales of silk, and about forty ankers of brandy — just as much as they can land in one boat. All they ask is a heavy gale or a...
Seite 245 - Let us go on board. — You observe the guns are iron, and painted black, and her bulwarks are painted red ; it is not a very becoming colour ; but then it lasts a long while, and the dock-yard is not very generous on the score of paint — or lieutenants of the navy troubled with much spare cash. She has plenty of men, and fine men they are ; all dressed in red flannel shirts, and blue trousers ; some of them have not taken off their canvas or tarpaulin petticoats, which are very useful to them,...
Seite 223 - Edgcumbe : if you have not been at Plymouth, the sooner that you go there, the better. At Mount Edgcumbe you will behold the finest timber in existence, towering up to the summits of the hills, and feathering down to the shingle on the beach. And from this lovely spot you will witness one of the most splendid panoramas in the world. You will see — I hardly know what you will not see — you will see...
Seite 245 - She is a cutter ; and you may know that she belongs to the Preventive Service by the number of gigs and galleys which she has hoisted up all round her. She looks like a vessel that was about to sail with a cargo of boats. Two on deck, one astern, one on each side of her. You observe that she is painted black, and all her boats are white. She is not such an elegant vessel as the yacht, and she is much more lumbered up.
Seite 196 - ... address the court, there was an anxious pause for some minutes. The day was fast declining, and most parts of the spacious Court House were already deeply immersed in gloom; while the light, sober, solemn and almost sad, gleamed upon the savage and reckless countenances of the prisoners at the bar. The sun had sunk down behind a mass of heavy yet gorgeous clouds, fringing their edges with molten gold. Hawkhurst had spoken fluently and energetically, and there was an appearance of almost honesty...

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