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...d- ous sport, while a youth, and follower of the Earl of Essex: ‘Sir Peter Lee, of Lime, in Cheshire, invited my lord one summer to hunt the stagg. An... ...ts was one cause of his acquiring the title of the King of the Commons, or Rex Plebeiorum, as Lesley has latinized it. The usual prize to the best sho...

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...s double- seated buggy, his negro coachman beside him the two coach dogs, “Rex” and “Rox,” trotting under the rear axle. His horses were not showy, no...

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... the mast- head. “Where away?” demanded the captain. “Three points off the lee bow, sir.” “Raise up your wheel. Steady!” “Steady, sir.” “Mast-head aho... ...ontent them but the extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady lee of yonder warehouses will not suffice. No. They must get just as nigh t... ...ainting representing a gallant ship beating against a terrible storm off a lee coast of black rocks and snowy breakers. But high above the flying scud... ...ly plunged like fate into the lone Atlantic. 110 Moby Dick CHAPTER 23 The Lee Shore S OME CHAPTERS BACK, one Bulkington was spoken of, a tall, newlan... ...t to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven cr... ...383 Herman Melville CHAPTER 90 Heads or Tails “De balena vero sufficit, si rex habeat caput, et regina caudam.” Bracton, L. 3, C. 3. L AT I N FROM THE...

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...n, In our towdn did dwed’l (dwell,) She loved her husband dear i lee, But another man twyste as wed’l. Life on the Mississippi M... ...iloo, Ri too, riloo, rilay e, She loved her husband dear i lee, But another man twyste as wed’l. And so on—fourteen verses. I... ...me trip in three days, three hours, and twenty minutes. * In 1870 the “R. E. Lee” did it in three days and ONE hour. This last is called the fastest t... ...d was a shade under fourteen and three eighths miles per hour. In the “R. E. Lee’s” time the distance had di minished to about one thousand and thirt... ...ncess (New) “ “ 17 30 1870 Natchez “ “ 17 17 1870 R. E. Lee “ “ 17 11 FROM NEW ORLEANS TO CAIRO—1,024 MILES D. H. M.... ...ug mented, as to cost, splendor, and variety. There is a chief per sonage—’Rex;’ and if I remember rightly, neither this king nor any of his great f...

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...hat he had done the same with his two other sisters, T ertia, whom Marcius Rex, and Clodia, whom Metellus Celer had married; the latter of whom was ca... ...eys could make little way. But his own ships were driving before it upon a lee shore of cliffs and rocks running sheer to the water, where there was n...

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...wine-cup. For what saith the text, Vinum lætificat cor hominis; and again, Rex delectabitur pulchritudine tua. “Till which merry meeting, we wish you ... ...nsive knave, who sees his neighbours blind side, and knows how to keep the lee-gage when his passions are blowing high. But valour is a sturdy fellow,...

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... miscella- neous hands. Who is it that the King (Able-man, named also Roi, Rex, or Director) now guides? His own huntsmen and prick- ers: when there i... ...e Scylla hardly weathered, here is Aristocrat Charybdis gurgling under his lee! The patient Hero of two Worlds almost loses temper. He accelerates, do... ... rush, undrowned, before the wind. Need- less to struggle; to fling helm a-lee, and make ‘bout ship! A bewildered Convention sails not in the teeth of...

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...me miscellaneous hands. Who is it that the King (Able-man, named also Roi, Rex, or Director) now guides? His own huntsmen and prickers: when there is ...