Cooper's Novels, Volume 5Stringer and Townsend, 1852 |
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... port , completely concealed from the sea , as if in dread of visits like those which might be expected from craft resembling the suspicious stranger . This little port , not as large in itself as a modern dock in places like London or ...
... port , completely concealed from the sea , as if in dread of visits like those which might be expected from craft resembling the suspicious stranger . This little port , not as large in itself as a modern dock in places like London or ...
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... port . Ghita herself , however , owed her ascendency to her qualities , rather than to the adventitious advantage of being a grocer's or an inkeeper's daughter , her origin being unknown to most of those around her , as indeed was her ...
... port . Ghita herself , however , owed her ascendency to her qualities , rather than to the adventitious advantage of being a grocer's or an inkeeper's daughter , her origin being unknown to most of those around her , as indeed was her ...
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... port . We call a felucca , a felucca ; a bombarda , a bombarda ; a polacre , a polacre ; and a lugger , a lugger . This is , there fore , a lugger . " ' Maso spoke authoritatively , for he felt that he was now not out of his depth , and ...
... port . We call a felucca , a felucca ; a bombarda , a bombarda ; a polacre , a polacre ; and a lugger , a lugger . This is , there fore , a lugger . " ' Maso spoke authoritatively , for he felt that he was now not out of his depth , and ...
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... port of his Imperial and Royal Highness , that does not show its flag , thereby declaring its honest purpose , and its nation . My friends , are the guns in the battery loaded , as usual ? ” The answer being in the affirmative , there ...
... port of his Imperial and Royal Highness , that does not show its flag , thereby declaring its honest purpose , and its nation . My friends , are the guns in the battery loaded , as usual ? ” The answer being in the affirmative , there ...
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... port a mile or more , he tacked and looked up towards the haven . By this time , however , he had got so near in to the western cliffs , that their lee de- prived him of all air ; and after keeping his canvass open half an hour in the ...
... port a mile or more , he tacked and looked up towards the haven . By this time , however , he had got so near in to the western cliffs , that their lee de- prived him of all air ; and after keeping his canvass open half an hour in the ...
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Page 7 - 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 colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Page 168 - Returned the Chief his haughty stare, His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : — "Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
Page 156 - Wearied, I fell asleep: but now lead on; In me is no delay; with thee to go Is to stay here; without thee here to stay Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banished hence.
Page 104 - He saw with his own eyes the moon was round, Was also certain that the earth was square, Because he had journey'd fifty miles, and found No sign that it was circular anywhere...