...vered with hair, but tailless, and of proportions greatly exceeding that of an ordinary man. From the description which he gives, we must believe that... ...gradually diminished in size, until sixty years ago she was no larger than an ordinary vessel. She still remained, however, a place of punishment for... ...rinning from her ports, a skeleton captain walking her bridge, the corpse of a seaman on the lookout, and a ghost taking his trick at the wheel. She i... ..., by name Bernard Fokke, of the seventeenth century. He was a reckless, daring seaman who, that he might carry the more sail in a high wind, cased his... ... he has still to go. Every rock in the ocean is laid down on the maps, and the seaman knows exactly what course to take to secure the safety of his ve... ... The men were robust and powerful, and their strength was equal to that of two ordinary seamen. For weapons they used bows and arrows, but they were o... ...st passage, completed the fleet. These five vessels, well provisioned, and all rating as A1, sailed under a favoring wind until they reached the Equin...

...body can pre- tend, for a moment, on behalf of the Dean, that there is any ordinary and natural tendency in human thoughts, which could ever turn to i... ...red landsmen. John Williams, however, who had been occasionally rated as a seaman on board of various Indiamen, &c., was probably a very accomplished ... ...cumstance depended Mary’s life. Had she been sent abroad for supper at the ordinary time of ten or eleven o’clock, it is almost certain that she, the ... ...after the departure of Mary), he (the watchman), when re-entering upon his ordinary half-hourly beat, was requested by Marr to assist him in closing t... ...y; and ‘a nice letter’ ought to mean a letter that is very delicate in its rating and in the choice of its company. 2 Thus Milton, who (in common wit...

..., because of the enchant ment in my clothes. And yet it was nothing but an ordinary suit of fifteen dollar slop shops. Still, I was sane enough to n... ...mean. Matters were about as I expected to find them. The “foun tain” was an ordinary well, it had been dug in the ordinary way, and stoned up in the ... ...t doesn’t have to have any brains. They are good to have, of course, for the ordinary exigencies of life, but they are no use in professional work. I... ...alous of his due of respect and but sparing of outgo to strangers till their rating and quality be assured, but trouble yourself not, as concerning th... ...ng shop I came to, up a back street, I got a rough rig suitable for a common seaman who might be going on a cold voyage, and bound up my face with a l...

...and forgetfulness. But there is a frailty, by com- parison with which this ordinary flux of the human race seems to have a vast duration. Cases there ... ...ectators, in many a fifth part of that amount,) births and deaths be- came ordinary events, which, in a small modern theatre, are rare and memorable; ... ...s absolutely faultless, she seemed to the random sight as little above the ordinary height. Possibly from the dignity of her person, assisted by the d... ...ith disappointment, as it may be supposed to act upon the poor shipwrecked seaman, alone and upon a desolate coast, straining his sight for ever to th... ...losophic in- terest belongs to it as a case of authentic history, commemo- rating a great revolution for good and for evil, in the for- tunes of a who...

...ait the fugitives. Berenger was to present himself in the palace as in his ordinary court attendance, and, contriv- ing to elude notice among the thro... ...bly she would have surrendered an infant born in purple and in pall to the ordinary lot of its contem- poraries; but the exertions and suffering she h... ...e from the secret poison she fancied it contained; while Sir Marmaduke was rating the constables for taking advantage of his absence to interpret the ... ...quest him to come and speak to my Lord, was a stout, honest, experi- enced seaman, who was perfectly at home in the Bay of Biscay , and had so strong ... ...aris was a more serious undertaking in the sixteenth century than the good seaman Master Hobbs was aware of, or he would have used stronger dissuasive... ...t journey as the most distressing period of his life. They were out of the ordinary highways, and therefore found the hiring of horses often extremely...

...f bricklayers, of all those who express their fundamental sentiment in the ordinary course of their activities, by the work of their hands. The work o... ...me. He has the knowledge of simple hearts. Long Tom Coffin is a monumental seaman with the individuality of life and the significance of a type. It is... ...ead when we have five minutes to spare, the usual hired books published by ordinary publish- ers, printed by ordinary printers, and censored (when the... ...rt, whose whole range of ideas, could they be investigated, would be found ordinary, if not base, because they have been adopted in compliance with so... ...r a period of probation and training I had imposed upon myself as ordinary seaman on board a North Sea coaster, I had come up from Lowestoft— my first... ...- ing out a deliberate plan of making out of myself, in the first place, a seaman worthy of the service, good enough to work by the side of the men wi... ...mp-trim- mer, mate, master, engineer, and also all through the innumerable ratings of the Navy up to that of Admi- ral, has done well. I don’t say mar...

... a gentleman pulling in a canoe, and smoking a narghilly, had attracted no ordinary attention. He rowed about a hundred yards ahead of the boats in th... ...n Bowie contemplated: the boldest and most daring perhaps ever imagined by seaman. It is this which has been so wrongly described by European annalist... ...h- ington forbade its publication; and it was but lately that the faithful seaman told it to me, his grandson, on his hundred- and-fifteenth birthday.... ...luck for me—as it diminished the chances of my de- tection. When, with the ordinary ceremonies, the kitmatgars 171 Burlesques and consomahs had expla... ... army: with this great benefit to it, that I only con- sumed as much as an ordinary mortal. We were then, as far as the victuals went, 126 mouths; as ... ... Father Drono (who piqued himself upon his Latinity) on the stone commemo- rating the death of her late lord:— Hic est Guilfridus, belli dum vixit avi...