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... Lyon , who was just sixty years old , having worked his way up to his present rank by dint of long and arduous services , owing his last commission and his command to the accident of having been a first - lieutenant at the battle of ...
... Lyon , who was just sixty years old , having worked his way up to his present rank by dint of long and arduous services , owing his last commission and his command to the accident of having been a first - lieutenant at the battle of ...
Page 248
... Lyon , here . I was a lieu- tenant less than three years since , and couldn't afford half a year . But all you old Agamemnons think as much of your little Nel . as it he were a pretty girl ; isn't it true , Lyon ? " " I dare say it may ...
... Lyon , here . I was a lieu- tenant less than three years since , and couldn't afford half a year . But all you old Agamemnons think as much of your little Nel . as it he were a pretty girl ; isn't it true , Lyon ? " " I dare say it may ...
Page 249
... Lyon ? " " No , Sir Frederick ; not being inquisitive , I hear but little of what is going on in the fleet . My orders are to report myself and ship to Captain Cuffe , for service , which I have the honour now to do . " " Well ...
... Lyon ? " " No , Sir Frederick ; not being inquisitive , I hear but little of what is going on in the fleet . My orders are to report myself and ship to Captain Cuffe , for service , which I have the honour now to do . " " Well ...
Page 254
... Lyon , " that the craft was a lugger ? " " A felucca - lugger , Signor Capitano , - nothing more nor less than that , on my honour . " " And all these honourable officers well know , " observed Raoul , ironically , " that a felucca ...
... Lyon , " that the craft was a lugger ? " " A felucca - lugger , Signor Capitano , - nothing more nor less than that , on my honour . " " And all these honourable officers well know , " observed Raoul , ironically , " that a felucca ...
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... Lyon , " accordin ' to the laws of Scotland , issue , and a few pairtenant expressions , will splice a couple as strongly as ye ' ll be doing it in England before either of the archbishops . " " As this is Italy , it is not probable ...
... Lyon , " accordin ' to the laws of Scotland , issue , and a few pairtenant expressions , will splice a couple as strongly as ye ' ll be doing it in England before either of the archbishops . " " As this is Italy , it is not probable ...
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
The Jack O'lantern: (Le Feu-follet) Or, The Privateer James Fenimore Cooper Affichage du livre entier - 1845 |
The Jack O'Lantern: (Le Feu-follet;) Or, the Privateer, Volume 1 James Fenimore Cooper Affichage du livre entier - 1842 |
The Jack O' Lantern; (Le Feu-follet;) Or, The Privateer James Fenimore Cooper Affichage du livre entier - 1843 |
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a-head admiral anchor Andrea Barrofaldi appearance boat breeze cabin called canvass Capitano Capri Captain Cuffe Captain Rule Caraccioli Carlo Giuntotardi carronades chase circumstances Clinch coast commander course craft crew deck duty eccellenza Elba Elbans enemy English escape Etooelle exclaimed eyes favour feeling felt felucca Feu-Follet Few-Folly fire followed forecastle French Frenchman frigate Ghita girl Griffin guns hand hauled heard heart honour hour Ischia island Italian Ithuel Jack O'Lantern judge-advocate land Le Feu-Follet lieutenant light look lugger Lyon manner mariners Maso matter mind minutes Monsieur Yvard Naples Nelson never night officer passed podestà port Porto Ferrajo prisoner Proserpine Raoul Yvard render Ringdove rocks sail seamen seen serpine ship shore side Signor Vice-governatore Sir Frederick Sir Smees smile soon stand stranger tell Terpsichore thee thing thou thought truth vessel vice-governor Ving-y-Ving Vito Viti Winchester wind wish yawl young
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Page 184 - If ever you have looked on better days; If ever been where bells have knolled to church; If ever sat at any good man's feast; If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear, And know what 'tis to pity, and be pitied; Let gentleness my strong enforcement be : In the which hope, I blush, and hide my sword.
Page 290 - WHITE as a white sail on a dusky sea, When half the horizon's clouded and half free, Fluttering between the dun wave and the sky, Is hope's last gleam in man's extremity.
Page 358 - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure...
Page 169 - A justice of the peace, for the time being, They bow to, but may turn him out next year ; They reverence their priest, but disagreeing In price or creed, dismiss him without fear ; They have a natural talent for foreseeing And knowing all things ; — and should PAKK appear From his long tour in Africa, to show The Niger's source, they 'd meet him with — We know.
Page 1 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters ; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse : And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.