Murphy's MasterB. Tauchnitz, 1873 - 286 Seiten |
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Seite 229 - Why that's my own island !" O, it's a snug little island ! A right little, tight little island, Search the globe round, none can be found So happy as this little island.
Seite 149 - ... stock, and for lesser hurts proportionably. X. The captain and quartermaster to receive two shares of a prize ; the master, boatswain, and gunner, one share and a half, and other officers one and a quarter.
Seite 37 - ... through the darkened land of sleep, towards the far-off luridlighted town. It may have been that one was in the mood for such thoughts, but one did not seem to have realized the restlessness of that city, where no sleep is, till, as the train neared Waterloo that night, to bring the Sleeper home, one saw " in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn," and felt that there can never fall the night, nor ever quite work cease.
Seite 146 - She answered, that as to hanging, she thought it no great hardship, for were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn Pirate, and so infest the seas that men of courage must starve...
Seite 131 - She showed no colours ; and as she drew nearer, I made her out to be a schooner, full of hands all in white shirts, and with a whole tier of great guns. ' " Where does this sloop belong to ? " hailed she. ' " To London," .said I ; "from Barbadoes." ' " We know that," was the answer.
Seite 131 - I made up my mind, that if the worst came to the worst, I would take that gentleman round the waist and jump into the sea with him, at any rate. " 'And who are we, think you?' said he, when I got upon deck. "'Sir,' said I, '/ believe you are gentlemen of fortune belonging to the sea.
Seite 229 - Then why does this mealy-mouthed gentleman talk about his hopes f ' resumed the other with irritation. 'If my people are not happy here, I'll know the reason why. And, look you, happy or not, they shall go nowhere else ' — he brought his fist down on the table with an emphasis that made the glasses ring again — ' nowhere else, so help me Heaven, save to the dickens. — Fishing ? No ; they shall not so much as fish, unless I give them my royal permission so to do. That was why I hanged Pat Doolan...
Seite 240 - ... seemed to come from no particular quarter, expecting to descry the smoke. But there was no smoke to be seen. He saw the New Town people running along the shore, and presently others from the harbour meeting them, each party, as he rightly guessed, believing that the vessel came from the opposite side of the island to that on which they were. The whole population, of late so depressed and sluggish, seemed to have wakened into life, clustering together in dark masses, and with a murmurous hum,...