Jacob FaithfulMardoch, 1842 - 394 páginas |
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... called a lighter , and upon the river Thames , at low water , that I first smelt the mud . This lighter was manned ( an expression amounting to bullism , if not construed kind - ly ) by my father , my mother , and your humble servant ...
... called a lighter , and upon the river Thames , at low water , that I first smelt the mud . This lighter was manned ( an expression amounting to bullism , if not construed kind - ly ) by my father , my mother , and your humble servant ...
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... called out for him in a harsh voice ; but Joe was out of hearing , and as mute as a fish . Joe opened not his mouth in reply , neither did my father . My mother then quitted the cabin , and walked round the lighter , looked into the dog ...
... called out for him in a harsh voice ; but Joe was out of hearing , and as mute as a fish . Joe opened not his mouth in reply , neither did my father . My mother then quitted the cabin , and walked round the lighter , looked into the dog ...
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... called out by the superinten- dent or proprietor , at the delivery or shipment of a cargo , or was once a month for a few minutes on shore to purchase necessaries . I cannot recall much of my infancy : but I recollect that the lighter ...
... called out by the superinten- dent or proprietor , at the delivery or shipment of a cargo , or was once a month for a few minutes on shore to purchase necessaries . I cannot recall much of my infancy : but I recollect that the lighter ...
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... called " Mother ! " but there was no answer . The lamp fixed against the after bulk - head , with a glass before it , was still alight , and I could see plainly to every corner of the cabin . Nothing was burning — not even the curtains ...
... called " Mother ! " but there was no answer . The lamp fixed against the after bulk - head , with a glass before it , was still alight , and I could see plainly to every corner of the cabin . Nothing was burning — not even the curtains ...
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... called to the sense that I was in a busy world , and had my own task to perform . The last words of my father- and his injunctions had ever been a law to me - were , " Mind , Jacob , we must be up at the wharf early to - morrow morning ...
... called to the sense that I was in a busy world , and had my own task to perform . The last words of my father- and his injunctions had ever been a law to me - were , " Mind , Jacob , we must be up at the wharf early to - morrow morning ...
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a'ter appeared barge Barnaby Battersea Beazeley better boat Brentford cabin called Captain Turnbull cried deck Domine's Drummond eyes fast father feel felt Fleming followed frigate Fulham girl give grog half hand happy hath head hear heard heart hour human natur Jacob Faithful Jerry Abershaw Knapps knew lady laughing lieutenant lighter looked Marables master mind minutes morning mother never night nose old Stapleton old woman passed perceived Pigtown pipe poor pulled Putney Bridge Quince recollect replied Mary replied old replied the Domine replied Tom returned river river Thames round sail Sarah schooner ship shore soon suppose Tagliabue TAUCHNITZ tell thee there's thing thought tide Titania to-morrow told Tom's took Turnbull's turned walked watch waterman Wharncliffe what's wherry wife Wimbledon Common wind Winterbottom wish young young Tom
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Página 235 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Página 92 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast And fills the white and rustling sail And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee.
Página 90 - Then are they glad, because they are at rest : and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be.
Página 220 - OH ! the days are gone, when Beauty bright My heart's chain wove ; When my dream of life from morn till night Was love, still love. New hope may bloom, And days may come Of milder, calmer beam, But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream : No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.
Página 110 - ... mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind!
Página 80 - That you be carried from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and there to be hanged by the neck till you are dead ; and may the Lord have mercy on your soul...
Página 246 - I to myself, a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.
Página 341 - Love and liberty's all our own. No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us...
Página 143 - Twas post meridian , half-past four, By signal I from Nancy parted, At five she lingered on the shore, With uplift eyes and broken-hearted." "I calculate you are no fool of a screamer," said the American, shoving off his boat from the barge , and pulling to his vessel. "And I calculate you're no fool of a liar,
Página 104 - All sense of danger's drown'd, We despise it to a man : We sing a little, And laugh a little, And work a little, And swear a little, And fiddle a little, And foot it a little, And swig the flowing can...