Cooper's Sea Tales, Band 4Stringer and Townsend, 1857 |
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... craft has a very close resemblance to the gull or the hawk , as it poises itself in the air , or is swooping down upon its prey . The lugger has less of the beauty that adorns a picture , perhaps , than the strictly latine rig ; but it ...
... craft has a very close resemblance to the gull or the hawk , as it poises itself in the air , or is swooping down upon its prey . The lugger has less of the beauty that adorns a picture , perhaps , than the strictly latine rig ; but it ...
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... craft , it served to urge her through the water at the rate of some three or four knots in the hour ; or quite as fast as an ordinarily active man is apt to walk . Her motion was nearly unobservable to all on board , and might rather be ...
... craft , it served to urge her through the water at the rate of some three or four knots in the hour ; or quite as fast as an ordinarily active man is apt to walk . Her motion was nearly unobservable to all on board , and might rather be ...
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... craft this vast distance ! Why , Ghita , it is a voyage from Elba to Livorno , and yet , I dare say , England is twenty times farther . " 66 Signore , I know little of England , but I have heard that it lies beyond our own sea . This is ...
... craft this vast distance ! Why , Ghita , it is a voyage from Elba to Livorno , and yet , I dare say , England is twenty times farther . " 66 Signore , I know little of England , but I have heard that it lies beyond our own sea . This is ...
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... craft , her- self , had been given in a way to puzzle all the proficients in Saxon English that Porto Ferrajo could produce . It had been distinctly enough pronounced by some one on board , and at the request of the quarantine ...
... craft , her- self , had been given in a way to puzzle all the proficients in Saxon English that Porto Ferrajo could produce . It had been distinctly enough pronounced by some one on board , and at the request of the quarantine ...
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... craft had just arrived from Inghilterra , whose name , in the dialect of that island , was " Ving - y - Ving ; " which meant " Ala e ala , ” in Italian ; a cognomen that struck the listeners as sufficiently absurd . In confirmation of ...
... craft had just arrived from Inghilterra , whose name , in the dialect of that island , was " Ving - y - Ving ; " which meant " Ala e ala , ” in Italian ; a cognomen that struck the listeners as sufficiently absurd . In confirmation of ...
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admiral anchor Andrea Barrofaldi answered Raoul appearance boat breeze cabin called canvass Capri Captain Cuffe Captain Rule Caraccioli Carlo Giuntotardi carronades chase circumstances Clinch coast commander Corsica countenance course craft crew deck duty Eccellenza Elba Elbans enemy English escape Etooelle exclaimed eyes favour feeling felt felucca Feu-Follet fire followed French Frenchman frigate Ghita girl Griffin guns hand hauled heard heart honour hope hour Ischia island Italian Ithuel Jack-o'-Lantern Judge Advocate land le Feu-Follet lieutenant light look lugger Lyon manner mariners Maso matter minutes Monsieur Yvard Naples Nelson never night officer passed podestâ port Porto Ferrajo prisoner Proserpine Raoul Yvard render Ringdove rocks sail seamen seen ship shore side Signor Vice-governatore Sir Frederick Sir Smees smile soon standing stranger tell Terpsichore thee thing thou thought truth vessel Ving-y-Ving Vito Viti Winchester wind wish yawl young