Excerpt Details
...e Clyde in no familiar spirit, but looking askance on each other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes; but among English speakers distance and suspicion reigned supreme. The sun was soon overclouded, the wind freshened and grew sharp as we continued to descend the wid...

Full Text Search Details
... other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes... ... as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes; but ... ...t our ocean steamer was in sight. There she lay in mid-river, at the T ail of the Bank, her sea-signal flying: a wall of bulwark, a street of white de... ...editerranean, so there is a free or common accent among English-speaking men who follow the sea. They catch a twang in a New England Port; from a cock... ...n’s place of birth. So it was with Mr. Jones. I thought him a Scotsman who had been long to sea; and yet he was from Wales, and had been most of his l... ...lked the deck and looked round upon my fellow- passengers, thus curiously assorted from all northern Eu- rope, I began for the first time to understan... ...ound myself unable to decide if he were Scots, English, or Irish. He had certainly employed north- country words and elisions; but the accent and the ... ... you dare not lie, or a harbour impossible to enter with the wind that blows. The life of a North Sea fisher is one long chapter of exposure and hard ... ...omposure. Next day by afternoon, Lough Foyle being already far be- hind, and only the rough north-western hills of Ireland within view, Alick appeared...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting ...

Full Text Search Details
...lace of the young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon towe... ...f the young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower comm... ...path of glory along the tossing, white-crested waters. The wind was a keen north-east breeze, and might have been thought too severe by any but the ‘h... ... far out over the waters, with eyes of the same tint as the hair. Even the sea-breeze failed to give more than a slight touch of colour to her somewha... ...What will become of any of us?’ said Eleanor. ‘I was gaz- ing out over the sea and wishing we could drift away upon it to some land of rest.’ ‘The Gle... ...eys and minstrelsy, and the sun shines as it never does in this cold bleak north; and above all there is Margaret, dear tender Margaret, almost a quee... ...er disappeared, though whether he had perished in some brawl, been lost at sea, or sought for- eign service as far as possible from his queenly wife a... ...e Queen’s health had, however, been greatly shaken, the cold blasts of the north wind withered her up, and she died in the begin- ning of the year 144... ...n the plenishing, a lack of all beauty save in the wild and rugged face of north- ern nature, and it was hardly to be wondered at that young people, i...

Description Details
...Containing many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yachting expedition in the early 20th century combined with an adventurous spy story. It was one of the early invasion novels which predicted war with Germany and called for Bri...

Excerpt Details
Mystery, War stories, Spy stories, Sea stories, Travel

Description Details
...he Chronicles of Canada series. The fur hunters were explorers who had blazed a trail across a continent and penetrated to the uttermost reaches of a northern empire the size of Europe. But it was fur these explorers were seeking when they pushed their canoes up the Saskatchewan, crossed the Rocky Mountains, went down the Columbia. Fur, not glory, was the quest when the do...

Excerpt Details
...Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the mermaids -- Voyage of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears ...

Full Text Search Details
...THE CHRISTIANIZING OF THE GLOBE. DESCRIBING SUPERSTITIONS APPERTAINING TO THE SEA AND THE OBSTACLES WHICH STRANGE BELIEFS OPPOSED TO EXTENDED VOYAGE... ...MPRISING ALSO AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Centur... ...y -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of... ...Among the mermaids -- Voyage of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commer... ...sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destr... ... human life -- The greatness of ancient Carthage -- Venice the mistress of the sea -- Beliefs respecting the earth's shape -- Teachings of the great p... ... driven upon a strange shore -- Attacked by the natives -- A bold rover of the north -- A cruise among Atlantic islands -- A surprising discovery in G... ...apportions the world -- ' Discovery of the West Indies -- John Cabot discovers North America -- Voyages of the younger Cabots -- Shipwreck and loss of... ...dered by Indians -- A desperate fight in the sea -- Discovery of other islands north of New Zealand -- A profitable intercourse with the natives -- Ho...

Excerpt Details
...hs Nicola as she brushes past him and goes into the bedroom. Stef and Nicola live in a ground floor flat on the outskirts of a seaside town on the north Kent coast in England. The flat is large, as the building, built in the eighteen hundreds and of Victorian design, was originally built for a wealthy land owner to be a home for his large family of nine children; and as...

Table of Contents Details
...on Brighton Moors’ Last Sigh: Spain Granada Wien on Vespa: Austria Vienna Medieval Magyars: Hungary Budapest Chapter 2 North America Maple Crunch: Canada Bolton, Ontario Niagara, Ontario Montreal Quebec City Calgary Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Chapter 3 Flying kangaroo: Australia Sydney Brisbane Cairns Chapter 4 Asia Rainbow ...

Full Text Search Details
...estless, endlessly moving ! Thralls of the circling ocean, waves of the sea - Attend your Father Hudson, the Ageless, the Majestic! [ 9 I TREA... ...toop, daughters of ether, ye clouds of the mountains ! Rise, sons of the sea, most ancient re- tainers, Flow towards your father's need! the Rive... ...ount Washington - And where the haughty deer on Hudson's Bay Sniffs the north wind, We bring you Mist. Chorus of Women. From the rank low- lands ... ...nd thought of everything, From the mossy citadels, And the cities of the sea; Timeworn tales of prophecy We are bringing in our singing To your n... ...norable death. This is thi twentieth year of sodden Fighting by land and sea and soldier's As hot as heart could wish, - boy gen- s, in Holland, F... ... open book, and a child may read it. Arno2d. I would not speak; but the sea-bottom of me [ 58 I OF BENEDICT ARNOLD Is being raked to the surface...

Full Text Search Details
... Region’s area of responsibility is bound by the Hawaiian Archipelago in the north, American Samoa and U.S. Pacifc Remote Island Areas in the south, ... ...Taniguchi, KTA Super Stores, President Chris Tatum, Marriott, Vice President North Asia, Hawai‘i and South Pacific James C. Tollefson, The Chamber of... ...is- mology reports and geothermal information. And surrounded by a deep blue sea rife with rich ecosystems, coral reefs and sea life, Hawai‘i’s oceano... ...pture of thermal and geothermal heat energy, wave energy, and the harvest of sea microbes that help reduce carbon dioxide, which APEC representatives ... ...m Kamehameha Schools Kyo-ya Hotels & Resorts (Sheraton Waikiki Resort) Northrop Grumman Corporation Outrigger Enterprises Group Palapalai Chun K...

Full Text Search Details
...ntis Atlantis (or Atlantica) was described in antiquity as a large island in the sea to the west of the known world (the Western Ocean), near the... ...onspiracy theorists place Atlantis all over the map - from an island in the Aegean Sea (Thera, or Santorini it suffered an earthquake in 1640 BC an... ...eart.com/billh/julian.html Canada Following a series of rebellions, the British North American colonies achieved self-government in 1848. But t... ...0. Southerners, dependent on industrial imports as they were, supported free trade. Northerners were vehement trade protectionists. The federal gove... ...ippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Another four - Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas - joined them only after... ...nion supporters in Gainesville, Texas. Similar events took place in Shelton Laurel, North Carolina. The Ku Klux Klan was the paramilitary arm of th... ...r in all formerly Confederate states. http://dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Region/North_America/United_ States/Wars/Civil_War/ http://dmoz.org/S... ...alled MSK. Seaquakes are earthquakes that start on land and then travel into the sea at the speed of sound (about 1.5 kilometers per second). ... ...of US dollars. Casualties: 5700 killed and 3000 injured. Side effects: Seismic sea waves (tsunamis) struck Hawaii, Japan, and the Pacific coast...

Full Text Search Details
...cale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witches mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravin‘d salt-sea shark, Root of hemlock digg‘d i‘ the dark, Liver of blaspheming... ...spirits, which sucked on the marks found on his body, and did much harm both by sea and by land, especially by sea, for he confessed he being at Lun... ... tumbling up and down with waves, and soon after it sunk directly down into the sea, when all the rest sailed on in safety; then he confessed, he ma... ...erve and eaten improve the hearing and memory. Oil extracted from the shells of sea-snails, which have the turning and curvature of the ears, also t... ... which fixed salt is to be joined to the liquor when filtrated. ―Next take sea salt, well purified, melted, and, by setting it in a cold place, ... ...led Swaffham in Norfolk, and dug under an apple tree in a certain garden on the north side of the town I should find a box of money; but I have some... ...usand francs. FOLK-LORE OF PINS. POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS. – Why, however, north country people are so persistent in their refusal to give one ... ...dit to the process of divination. The vulgar notion, still prevalent in the north of England, of thə hazel‘s tendency to a vein of lead ore, se...

Full Text Search Details
...to India. I could not envisage life without you now, my darling Rosita. Will you brave that long sea journey and all those strange people to be with... ...len and Rosita watched with tears filling their eyes as the tugs steered the Prince George out to sea and the tall figure of Sir Terence disappeared... ...sing ferocity of the gale, as the ship bucked and reared in the troughs and crests of the raging sea, like a wild stallion endeavouring to shake off... ...h?‘ The voyage continued without too much further drama except for the appearance in the Arabian Sea of several Arab dhows, obviously slave ships, ... ... and I will have to comply to avoid further delay. You lads ride on. Follow the city walls to the North Gate, where I will meet you after making sur... ... John?’ ‘At the end of this road which skirts the lake,’ answered the Scotsman. ‘In fact, in the north of the City. The Residency is, of course, bui... ... masters of the State. ‘There is the fort, which is about six miles, as the crow flies, from the northern gate of the city. It was built by the Mogu... ..., but no, I must start on my return journey before nightfall. My platoon is waiting for me at the North Gate.’ Taking a glass from the tray, John Ma... ...haritably dubbed. The elder and prettier had married a British soldier who had been killed on the North West Frontier and she and her younger sister...

Full Text Search Details
... ] 2 ] (rwgu BYrau mhlw 1 - pMnw 1125) How is one to be ferried across the sea of existence without the Guru’s Word? Without the Lord’s True Name, t... ...tood without any distinction. He had travelled not only throughout India’s north, east, south and west but also far beyond into Afghanistan, Arabia,... ...it is not only open to all persons from the four directions of the world (north, east, south, west) but also open to all persons whether belonging ...

Full Text Search Details
..., with no other difference, than that the one is in harbour and the other out at sea. Well: but if that which the text declares should be as little a... ...ice; they shall sing for the majesty of the Lord; they shall cry aloud from the sea:” Isa. xxiv. 14. of all which we shall speak expressly in due ti... ...veth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and... ...made. First: in the fiftieth chapter verse 3, he speaketh thus, “For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land... ...tain that nothing of the kind was accomplished upon her, when the nation of the north under Darius and Cyrus came against her. That nation far from ... ...And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thro... ... therein, shall sing for Babylon; for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the Lord.” Rev. xviii. 20. “Rejoice over her, thou heav... ...vens, and ye that dwell in them. W oe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, becaus... ...th, which brought up, and which led, the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and...

Full Text Search Details
...e we could remember Christopher Columbus as well as the man who opened the Northwest passage, who is less renowned. It is not easy to give up the... ...er. It shouldn’t be difficult to see the analogy between the Mediterranean Sea and the uterus of a woman. They both have a very similar shape. What... ...iano”, where she shows how it can draw a human life into the depths of the sea, where there is only a profound silence, and beauty that brings death ... ...ter for chocolate”, if it can help refresh your memory. As the god of the sea, Neptune will attack Ulysses, his ship and his crew many different ti... ...eative one, that can help him build a raft that will be able to handle the sea. We can thus deduce that human beings are endowed with curative power... ...le they were still on land, and they discovered the connection between the North Star and the destination they wanted to reach. We can choose to ... ...the destination they wanted to reach. We can choose to make our SELF our north star. But we must learn to listen to it for a long time so we can u... ... know how to confidently establish our route. Four stars other than the North Star comprise the "cup" of the Big Dipper, and unless we look at th... ...e Big Dipper, and unless we look at them as well, we cannot know where the North Star lies. Therefore, when we are establishing our destination we...

Full Text Search Details
...rted, but destroyed? Doth he not launch his church forth as into a boisterous and fatal sea, which should ever beat hard against her course, or by f... ...ntioned as the subject of the f ifth seal, but fully described under the beast from the sea with ten crowned horns, and the beast like a lamb which ... ...e proper in their true sense to Satan the piercing serpent. The passing through the Red Sea has been by the apostles declared to be the emblem of ba... ...d his apostles; or to spiritualize them altogether, which is to be lost; in a shoreless sea of conjecture, speculation, and outrageous extravagance.... ... Lord liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven t... ...ll yield up her dead, and the sea shall yield up her dead, and they shall come from the north, and the south, and the east, and the west, and sit do... ...t II. -236- two, Seleucus and Ptolemy, whom the same Daniel calleth the king of the north and the king of the south. But this seemeth nothing in... ... where it established itself from its youth; that is, towards the south of Asia, and the northern part of Africa. In this part, or toward this side, ... ...flourished in the primitive ages; and, besides all this, a very vast empire towards the north of Europe and Asia. The second head of the beast consi...

Full Text Search Details
...ign of Divisions”. Here, the three zones of much higher living standards - North America, European Union and Far-East Asia – are rather separated from... ...just to pray. THE TEMPLE Yes, this was the place. On the right side of the North road, the old priest had told him, you shall find the three pines. Th... ...gymen slowly 55 walking toward this sanctuary-pool, and around he saw the sea of exalted faithful - dancing, singing, crying, shouting, jostling, fig... ...e shape of a tree and offer God our fruits or blossoms. Or we may become a sea into which our Beloved will swim, taking Himself the form of a sea-crea...

Full Text Search Details
...s. Are the birds somehow blinded by the light? Are the waves hitting the sea? The metaphor flutters its flag like a rainbow. Chthonian wasps' nest... ... eagle is gathering the air with unfolded feathers. By saucy wavings the Northern wind lightly punches me. The clouds hang like foul chandeliers ... ...et is limping. Through the night's mud stars are walking with boots. The sea tortures its entrails in the pier town. Evening switches off the sky. ... ...e drizzle... and so much melancholy! THE WINTER King in the streets - the North wing, with empty pockets. White statues in the sifted lava of time.... ...ng in the streets, Crivãtul The north wind Cu buzunarele goale." with empty pockets." ... ...nipresent in the majority of his poems: the time / myself, the clouds, the sea / the bird, the universe / breeze, infinite / rain, desert / flowers, s...

Full Text Search Details
...edy” Dante condemns him to hell, after having him die during at a storm at sea, while passing through the columns of Hercules. We, however, know tha... ...g who was driven by this same kind of anguish, and he traveled by land and sea in search of this secret. He, however, did not leave us a role model ... ...erpretation I want to propose. The journey of Ulysses in the Mediterranean Sea is a re-edition of Ulysses’ voyage inside his mother’s womb. The wom... ...he mother’s womb contains the fetus. He faced traumas in the womb, and at sea he faces monsters that he must overcome. All of Ulysses’ experiences... ... that he must overcome. All of Ulysses’ experiences during his journey by sea, whether good or bad, are things he had already gone through during h... ...abirinto marino” {The Marine Labyrinth}), that runs from east to west, and north to south. A monster is hiding at almost every turn of the labyrinth,...

Full Text Search Details
...ilee. He lived in Sidon (a city in today’s Lebanon) and in Meron (in the north of Israel), and established a seminary in the Western galilee, not f... ...cording to tradition, Rashbi and his son fled to Piqiin, a village in the north of Israel, where they hid in a cave and delved into the secrets of t... ... savvy. Hot topics nowa- - days are climate change, global warming, rising sea levels, and the start of the new hurricane season. “The Big Thaw” is w...