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... deck , they began laughing at old Rangsley , who held forth in a thunderous voice , punctuated by hiccoughs : " They carried I aboord - a - cop - theer lugger and sinks I in the cold , co - old sea . ' It mortified me excessively that I ...
... deck , they began laughing at old Rangsley , who held forth in a thunderous voice , punctuated by hiccoughs : " They carried I aboord - a - cop - theer lugger and sinks I in the cold , co - old sea . ' It mortified me excessively that I ...
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... deck , his hands in his pockets . As he paused in his walk to spit into the sea beside me , Carlos said : " And you , my Juan , what will you do in this Jamaica ? " The sense that we were approaching land was already all over the ship ...
... deck , his hands in his pockets . As he paused in his walk to spit into the sea beside me , Carlos said : " And you , my Juan , what will you do in this Jamaica ? " The sense that we were approaching land was already all over the ship ...
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... decks . The only sounds that came out of her were the piping of boatswains ' calls and the tramping of feet . Imagining her to be going home , I felt a great desire to be on board . Ultimately , as it turned out , I went home in that ...
... decks . The only sounds that came out of her were the piping of boatswains ' calls and the tramping of feet . Imagining her to be going home , I felt a great desire to be on board . Ultimately , as it turned out , I went home in that ...
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... deck we heard a hubbub of voices , of people exchanging greetings , of Christian names called out joyously . A tumultuous shuffling of feet went on continuously over our heads . The ship was crowded with people from the shore . Perhaps ...
... deck we heard a hubbub of voices , of people exchanging greetings , of Christian names called out joyously . A tumultuous shuffling of feet went on continuously over our heads . The ship was crowded with people from the shore . Perhaps ...
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... decks were covered with a jabbering turmoil of negroes with muscular arms and brawny shoulders . All their shining ... deck ; but the passage that he made for himself closed behind him . Suddenly , in the pushing and hurrying , I came ...
... decks were covered with a jabbering turmoil of negroes with muscular arms and brawny shoulders . All their shining ... deck ; but the passage that he made for himself closed behind him . Suddenly , in the pushing and hurrying , I came ...
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Page 115 - he would die of grief. The general effect of the place was of vitality exhausted, of a body calcined, of romance turned into stone. The still air, the hot sunshine, the white beach curving around the deserted sheet of water, the
Page 110 - I would like best to see you marry my cousin. Once before a woman of our race had married an Englishman. She had been happy. English things last forever—English peace, English power, English fidelity. It is a country of much serenity, of order,
Page 355 - WHY have I been brought here, your worships?" I asked, with a great deal of firmness. There were two figures in black, the one beside, the other behind a large black table. I was placed in front of them, between two soldiers, in the
Page 108 - king, had fought against the French, had a price put upon his head by a special proclamation. He had known passion, power, war, exile, and love. He had been thanked by his returned king,
Page 165 - their long knives. They came in a disorderly, shouting mob along the beach, intending this not for an attack, but as a simple demonstration. The sight of the open gate struck them with wonder. The bishop's coach
Page 108 - et armis, a nun from a convent, incurring the enmity of the Church and the displeasure of his sovereign. He had sacrificed all his fortune in Europe to the service of
Page 349 - of my hair was concealed by the handkerchief bound under my hat; my footsteps echoed loudly under the vault, and I penetrated into the heart of the city. And directly, it seemed to me, I had stepped back three hundred years. I had never seen anything so old; this was the abandoned inheritance of an adventurous race, that seemed to have thrown all its might, all its
Page 404 - Who is it that refuses to drink a glass of brandy?' He asked me what countryman I was, and if I was an American." There were two others from the unfortunate