...The puff died away immediately, however, and no damage was done beyond the splitting of the foretopsail. Dirk Peters treated Augustus all this day wit... ...ds, he designed, should the season prove favourable, to push on toward the pole. Accordingly, on the twelfth of De- cember, we made sail in that direc... ... give some brief account of the very few attempts at reaching the southern pole which have hitherto been made. That of Captain Cook was the first of w... ...he other. Captain Cook concluded that this vast field reached the southern pole or was joined to a continent. Mr. J. N. Reynolds, whose great exertion... ...- erations obliged him to retreat, he could have penetrated, if not to the pole itself, at least to the eighty-fifth parallel. I have given his ideas ... ...again looked doubt- ful, as nothing was to be seen in the direction of the pole but one apparently limitless floe, backed by absolute mountains of rag... ...were much amused with the conduct of Too-wit in one instance. The cook was splitting some wood near the galley, and, by accident, struck his axe into ...

..., of mud, turf, or large blocks of the slate. Many workmen were engaged in splitting up the slates, or loading wagons with them, rude wild-looking men... ...f rock, crossed by a foot-bridge of planks, guarded by a handrail of rough poles. The doctor had traversed it, and gone a few paces beyond, when, look... ...of self-humiliation. “I can’t say little pitchers have long ears, to a May-pole like you, Norman,” said he; “I think I ought rather to apologise for h... ...ot it for me. Come in, Polly, they have found it out. Did you not hear her splitting with laughing outside the window? I would not let her come in for... ...alm tree-one of the many sailors’ graves scattered from the tropics to the poles, and which might be the first seed in a “God’s acre” to that island, ... ...ld a crowd, above whose heads rose the apex of a triangle, formed by three poles, sustaining a rope and huge stone. “Here comes Dr. Spencer,” she said...

... almost non-existent to him, but she could not. It was as if the pivot and pole of his life, from which he could not escape, was his mother. And in th... ...udicrous importance. “You feel as if you could scoop up the folk like tad- poles, and have a handful of them,” he said. She laughed, answering: “Yes; ... ...on in silence. When they came to the swing bridge he sat down on the great pole, looking at the stars in the water. He was a long way from her. She ha... ...e leave Clara out of count, and take simply women? But he thought that was splitting a hair. “When I had Baxter, actually had him, then I did feel as ...

...been cut off short at five feet, and bound round the ends, to prevent them splitting, with bands of copper; but he could do more with those stumps tha... ... a roaring and a grunting and bubbling, and I saw the tent cave in, as the pole snapped, and begin to dance about like a mad ghost. A camel had blunde... ...ved, and it took a stick and hit me on the neck.” (That was my broken tent pole, and I was very glad to know it.) “Shall we run on?” “Oh, it was you,”... ...y plunged forward in the mud, and managed somehow to run their yoke on the pole of an ammu- nition wagon, where it jammed. “Now you have done it,” sai...

...t to say ‘Thank you’ to Satan if he helped me?” “Don’t roll about up there splitting reasons with me,” said the novice. “Come back to the Ford and tha... ... (the brook was too narrow for sculls), and Una punted with a piece of hop-pole. When they came to a very shallow place (the Golden Hind drew quite th... ...dds ‘tween us regardin’ heads, nei- ther. You had it back at me with a hop-pole. How did we get home that night? Swimmin’?’ ‘Same way the pheasant com...

...only par- tially—and stood it on the ground. A bare lopsided weatherbeaten pole was planted in the ashes there, and had been there many a year. Hard b... ...s planted in the ashes there, and had been there many a year. Hard by this pole, his lantern stood: lighting a few feet of the lower part of it and a ... ...le clear trail of light into the air. ‘He can never be going to dig up the pole!’ whispered Ve- nus as they dropped low and kept close. ‘Perhaps it’s ... ...nd then went at it like an old digger as he was. He had no design upon the pole, except that he measured a shovel’s length from it before beginning, n... ...as good as gone already.’ ‘Y ou mean the little one of the three, with the pole atop, sir.’ ‘Yes,’ said Mr Boffin, rubbing his ear in his old way, wit... ...elf, flinging up her money to the church-weathercocks, and racing off at a splitting pace for the workhouse?’ ‘I don’t understand you.’ ‘Don’t you? Or...

...as simpli- fied the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly ... ...ian Government agent and one of those responsible for the recent arrest of Poles. Bakunin, of course, repudiated the charge, and George Sand wrote to ... ... revive an- cient oppressions. Is it to be supposed, for example, that Na- poleon, if he had been born into such a community as Kropotkin advocates, w...

...ecomes aware of a revolting individuality. He sees before him the opposite pole of deity. The river-god had too little of a con- crete character. Jupi... ...approach is merely an accident, and contingent upon our being engaged in a polemical discussion of Protestantism in relation to Popery. That, however,... ...alilean fanatics. Out of similar no- tions have risen the absurdities of a polemic Bible chronol- ogy, &c.* Meantime, if a man sets himself steadily t... ...horized by that church, it is commonly called The Vulgate. But, in a large polemic question, unless, like the Romish church, we uphold a secondary ins... ...rtance could follow. It is clear that a Christianized earth never can want polemic miracles again; polemic miracles were wanted for a transitional sta... ...fused, that the main purpose and drift of this science was a sort of hair- splitting process, by which doubts might be applied to the plainest duties ...

... because it is necessary to the fish’s activi- ties—to its life. The north pole is a significant element in the environment of an arctic explorer, whe... ...g distinctions for the sake of making them, an exercise reprobated as hair splitting, but is insight into an affair with reference to acting. Wisdom h... ...preciation value. “ If we take something which seems to be at the opposite pole, like poetry, the same sort of statement applies. It may be that, at t... ...sure, knowing and doing, man and nature. These influences have resulted in splitting up the subject matter of education into separate studies. They ha...

...a of the whole thing. At a stroke all that anxiety about wasting votes and splitting votes, which is the secret of all party political manipu- lation ... ...ith the submarine and the flying machine and the Marconigram and the North Pole successfully achieved. In the tumult of realisations it perhaps escape... ...to our service a score of hitherto unsus- pected metals; we clamber to the pole of our globe, scale every mountain, soar into the air, learn how to ov...

...Old Hickories,” with rude likenesses of the old general upon them; hickory poles and hickory brooms your never-ending emblems; Mr. Polk himself was “Y... ...his freedom? In ignorance of his legal emancipa- tion he is kept chopping, splitting, and plowing. Others 161 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol T...