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...en selling their souls for love or power to some grotesque devil. The most ordinary intelligence can per- ceive without much reflection that anything ... ...ad been a very excellent master. And what greater kindness can one do to a seaman than to put him in the way of employment? Captain Froud did not see ... ... myself, as if already the story-teller were being born into the body of a seaman. But I heard on deck the whistle of the officer of the watch and rem... ...ly the futility of an enormous task, joined to a bodily fatigue such as no ordinary amount of fairly heavy physi- cal labour could ever account for. I... ...rs does not make a literary man, any more than the love of the sea makes a seaman. And it is very possible, too, that I love the letters in the same w... ...dim gleam of the lantern standing on the quay. He is worth a dozen of your ordinary Normans or Bretons, but then, in the whole immense sweep of the Me... ... of the mast. I had been given to understand long be- fore that he had the rating of a second-class able seaman (matelot leger) in the fleet which sai...

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...en selling their souls for love or power to some grotesque devil. The most ordinary intelligence can perceive without much re- flection that anything ... ...ad been a very excellent master. And what greater kindness can one do to a seaman than to put him in the way of employment? Captain Froud did not see ... ... myself, as if already the story-teller were being born into the body of a seaman. But I heard on deck the whistle of the officer of the watch and re-... ...ly the futility of an enormous task, joined to a bodily fatigue such as no ordinary amount of fairly heavy physical labour could ever account for. I h... ... does not make a liter- ary man, any more than the love of the sea makes a seaman. And it is very possible, too, that I love the letters in the same w... ...ot of the mast. I had been given to understand long before that he had the rating of a second-class able seaman (matelot leger) in the fleet which sai...

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...structible value that lay hidden in the petty and wearisome incidents, and ordinary characters with which I was now conversant. The fault was mine. Th... ...inated upon her bosom. It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.... ... the daily custom; and she must either sustain and carry it forward by the ordinary resources of her nature, or sink beneath it. She could no longer b... ...Pharmacopoeia, which so many learned doctors had spent centuries in elabo rating. This learned stranger was exemplary as regarded at least the outwar... .... Deny ing himself this freak, as unworthy of his cloth, he met a drunken seaman, one of the ship’s crew from the Spanish Main. And here, since he ha... ...ow, if never before, it answered a good purpose by enabling Hester and the seaman to speak together without risk of being over heard; and so changed ... ...without it. “Thy mother is yonder woman with the scarlet letter,” said the seaman, “Wilt thou carry her a message from me?” 195 Hawthorne “If the mes...

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...w young damsels lived, and what treat- ment they met with, and he was soon rating the women in 57 Charlotte M. Young no measured terms for the disres... ...was not so repugnant to all her feelings as to a modern maiden; it was the ordinary destiny of womanhood, and she had been used in her childhood to lo... ...ow not the name—and laid hands on a fisher’s smack, which Jock of Hull was seaman enough to steer with the aid of the lad on board, as far as Frieslan...

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...ped so far with me were a man named Helmar, a passenger like myself, and a seaman whose name I don’t know,—a short sturdy man, with a stammer. We drif... ...y the sea subsided slowly to a glassy calm. It is quite impossible for the ordinary reader to imag- ine those eight days. He has not, luckily for hims... ...tzi still flourishing? What a shop that was!” He had evidently been a very ordinary medical student, and drifted incontinently to the topic of the mus... ...ought of,—monsters manufactured by transferring a slip from the tail of an ordinary rat to its snout, and allowing it to heal in that position.” “Mons... ...nebrake in one direction, a dense tangle of palm-trees on the other, sepa- rating us from the ravine with the huts, and to the north the hazy horizon ...

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...ver, upon any romantic rigor in constructing this idea, and abiding by the ordinary standard of what is understood by publication, it is probable that... ...ing the relations of rank. The equation, so to speak, between rank and the ordinary expressions of rank, which usually runs parallel to the graduation... ...t from me they recoiled, one and all, as cannon shot from cotton bags. The ordinary course of our day’s warfare was this: between nine and ten in the ... ...establishment was under peculiar and contradictory circumstances. When my “rating,” or graduation in the school, was to be settled, naturally my al- t... ...ements of discomfort which it could develop, was entitled to an Ameri- can rating. But alas! Fuit Ilium; I have not seen the ruins of this ancient hot... ...ate branches of his 271 Autobiographic Sketches profession—navigation and seamanship, qualifications which are not very often united. After the death... ...a character to maintain with the sailors: he was respected equally for his seamanship and his shipmanship. 6 By the way, when it is considered that o... ...anish shipping and maritime towns was that which I have here retained. 6 “Seamanship and shipmanship”—These are two functions of a sailor seldom, sep...

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...n their pockets, or in belts. Some of these documents, care- fully unwrinkled and dried, were little less fresh in appear- ance that day, than the pre... ...be under ordinary circumstances, after having been opened three or four times. In that lonely place, it had not been easy to obtain even such common c... ... My darling son would have been sixteen on Christmas-day next. He was a most amiable and obedient child, early taught the way of salvation. We fondly ... ...e sun; on the top of the Cross, the letters I.H.S.; on the left arm, a man and woman dancing, with an effort to delineate the female’s dress; under wh... ...here, and the mistress had got into jail through deluding Jack. When I at last ended this night of travel and got to bed, I failed to keep my mind on ... ...istance as on a burn- ing-glass, I felt that now, indeed, I was in the dear old France of my affections. I should have known it, without the well- rem... ...and five loaves. I suppose when Thisman, M.P ., and Thatman, M.P ., and the Public-blessing Party, lay their heads together in course of time, and com...

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...t the time, and the death of Goguelat remained a mystery of the prison. Such were the veterans of France! And yet I should be disingenuous if I did no... ...building. I had never the heart to look for any length of time—the thought that I must make the descent in person some dark night robbing me of breath... ...e one else should make the trial, they had better still why it should not be themselves. Others, again, condemned the whole idea as insane; among thes... ...erent if you had re- ceived your commission. Properly speaking, you are not yet a combatant; I have ceased to be one; and I think it arguable that we ... ...answer. All day the dogs were kept unsparingly on the alert, and the drove pushed forward at a very unusual and seemingly unwelcome speed. All day Sim... ...u! You don’t seem to know when you have a good lodger; but I know perfectly when I have an honest landlady! Rowley, unstrap the valises!’ Will it be c...

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...elain were not unworthy of it. The furni- ture was the same mixture of the ordinary and the choice, either worn and shabby, or such as would suit a vi... ... that sort never know how to speak to a lad,’ said Louis. ‘It is their own rating that they ought to blame.’ ‘Not T om Madison, I know,’ said Mr. Hold... ...he dinner-table; the Earl concealing anxiety and vexation, under more than ordinary punctilious politeness; the Viscount doing his share of the honour... ... and treating him like a spoilt child. He insisted on Mary’s seeing their ordinary sitting room, which nature had intended for a housekeeper’s room, ... ...ve on board?’ ‘Ye’d both of ye make more mischief than work,’ said the old seaman, who had been looking from one to the other of the young men, as if ... ...ier month than in these small lodgings, built by the old retired merchant- seaman evidently on the model of that pride of his heart, the Eliza Priscil...

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...e brushing away. He shook off the suspicion to some extent, on their sepa- rating first from their hostesses and then from each other, by the aid of a... ...a mild Hindoo, too noiseless almost for her nerves, or simply a barefooted seaman on the deck of a ship— Pasquale offered to sight a small salver, whi... ...but he hadn’t even the amount of curiosity that he would have had about an ordinary friend. He might have shaken himself at moments to try, for a sort...

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...ou believe me? Oh, you modest creature. Well, let me assure you that under ordinary circumstances it would have been a good shot. Y ou are sufficientl... ...young lady of spirit and position drawn into an ugly affair like that. Any ordinary young lady, I mean. Well, the fellow asked nothing better than to ... ...ou? “Our Mr. Stafford takes it all in with downcast eyes… I am a competent seaman, he says, with his sly, modest air. A ship’s chief mate has no doubt... ...anegyric of a very fine sailor, a member of the ship’s company, having the rating of the captain’s coxswain. He was known on board as Cuba Tom; not be... ...youngster on joining the service was put under the charge of a trustworthy seaman, who slung his first hammock for him and often later on became a sor... ...over then that, no Spaniard being forthcoming for the service, this worthy seaman with the unique pigtail and a very high character for courage and st... .... “‘We must get him to perspire as soon as possible,’ said Davidson in his ordinary voice. ‘Y ou’ll have to give him hot drink of some kind. I will go...

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... stupidity; it had no pronounced charac- teristics whatever; it was simply ordinary, irresponsive, and unruffled. The only thing his aspect might have... ...n the very day of writing, entered him regularly on the ship’s articles as Ordinary Seaman. “Be- cause I can do the work,” he explained. The mother ag... ...y day of writing, entered him regularly on the ship’s articles as Ordinary Seaman. “Be- cause I can do the work,” he explained. The mother again wept ... ...swift and changeable currents — tangled facts that nevertheless speak to a seaman in clear and definite language. Their speech appealed to Captain Mac... ...dirty as ap- plied to the weather implying only moderate discomfort to the seaman. Had he been informed by an indisputable authority that the end of t... ...anour and the hoarse voice, he had none of the classical attributes of his rating. His good nature almost amounted to imbecility: the men did what the... ...ck,” continued Jukes with warmth. After the whisper of their shouts, their ordinary tones, so distinct, rang out very loud to their ears in the amazin...

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...a mottled bronze, to which sickness soon changes the rich berry-brown of a seaman’s complexion in the tropics. On the quarter-deck was one whom I took... ...quite rotten. Still, she was tolerably tight, and but little more than the ordinary pumping of a morning served to keep her free. But all this had not... ...t was quite plain that the captain stood in awe of him. So far as courage, seamanship, and a natural aptitude for keeping riotous spirits in subjectio... ...ocked hat and feather. In addition to these articles, they merely wore the ordinary costume of their race—a slip of native cloth about the loins. Ind... ...arboard watch, and the other for the larboard. By prescription, the oldest seaman in each claims the treat as his, and, accordingly, pours out the goo... ...ssened them. Unlike most of his countrymen, he was, if anything, below the ordinary height; but then, he was all compact, and un- der his swart, tatto... ...is attitude, the men, rejoiced at seeing him thus humbled, left him; after rating him, in sailor style, for a cannibal and a coward. Ben was attended ...

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.... T emple and I contemplated these proceedings as matters belonging to the ordinary phenomena of feasting. We agreed that gentlemen were always the la... ...bin there was no smack of the preacher in him. His men said he was a stout seaman, mad on the subject of grog and girls. Why, it was on account of gro... ...e not like one of those tract-fellows. You’re a man we can respect, a good seaman, master of your ship, and hearty, and no mewing sanctimoniousness, a... ... of it went: ‘ And there was your father apolo- gizing, and the margravine rating him,’ etc. My father, as it happened, was careful not to open his li... ...e 202 The Adventures of Harry Richmond same tone, more effective than the ordinary language of con- viction, ‘He does not think it.’ The rage of a yo... ...r share of it in her bosom from that time, proudly appeased. They were not ordinary peasant children, and happily for them they had another friend tha... ... as it’s the worst for men. Poor Billy Bulsted, for instance, a first-rate seaman, and his heart’s only half in his profession since he and Julia swor... ... first speaker, as they swung round to parade the pier, and passed on nar- rating. ‘Not an hotel, if it is possible to avoid it,’ my aunt Dor- othy, w... ...at deal is due to you, I know; but I can’t pay a jot of it while you go on rating my father like a madman.’ ‘Harry!’ either my aunt or Janet breathed ...

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...r. This additional pungency on the part of the fair young creature led, on ordinary occasions, to such slight consequences as the co- pious dilution o... ...n conclusion, to Mr Tigg, with his hat, ‘any lady or gentleman, possessing ordinary strength of mind, to say whether he’s a disagreeable-looking chap ... ... a-coming out strong at last. These are the circumstances that would try a ordinary mind; but I’m uncommon jolly. Not quite as jolly as I could wish t... ...bin-boy, and years upon years too inexperienced to be accepted as a common seaman. His dress and manner, too, militated fatally against any such propo... ... no deadly element were peering in at every seam and chink, and no drowned seaman’s grave, with but a plank to cover it, were yawning in the unfathoma... ...- mate of his quality, and relieved his breast of the oppressive burden of rating him in secret as a nameless and obscure individual. ‘Say her brother...

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...ention of which will recommend itself to you, I know, as one possessing no ordinary claims to your sympathy and approbation, and the proposing of whic... ...the profession of an artist, I disdain to stoop to ask for charity, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, on behalf of the Artists. In its broader ... ... something of a personal tone. I am not here advocating the case of a mere ordinary client of whom I have little or no knowledge. I hold a brief to ni... ... that it was an undergraduate of Harvard University who served as a common seaman two years before the mast, and who wrote about the best sea book in ... ... and happiness of mankind. And in a celebration like the present, commemo rating the birth and progress of a great educational establish ment, I rec...

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...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...

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..., 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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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... 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...