Great Sea Stories of All Nations, by Giovanni Boccaccio, David Bone, Joseph Conrad ..: And Many Others from Ancient Greece to Modern JapanHenry Major Tomlinson |
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Page 480
... reached forth the other with impatient wavings ; others , shading their eyes from the vivid sunlight , sat far out on the rocking yards ; all the spars in full bearing of mortals , ready and ripe for their fate . Ah ! how they still ...
... reached forth the other with impatient wavings ; others , shading their eyes from the vivid sunlight , sat far out on the rocking yards ; all the spars in full bearing of mortals , ready and ripe for their fate . Ah ! how they still ...
Page 546
... reached by the flame , her guns exploded — a loud and awful sound in the night above the Roads . We stood and watched that sea picture , and we watched in silence . We are seeing giant things , and ere this war is ended we shall see ...
... reached by the flame , her guns exploded — a loud and awful sound in the night above the Roads . We stood and watched that sea picture , and we watched in silence . We are seeing giant things , and ere this war is ended we shall see ...
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... reached his failing sense . The stragglers came in one by one ; sixty - five ships only of the hundred and thirty who , in July , had sailed out of Corunna full of hope and en- thusiasm . In those hundred and thirty had been twenty ...
... reached his failing sense . The stragglers came in one by one ; sixty - five ships only of the hundred and thirty who , in July , had sailed out of Corunna full of hope and en- thusiasm . In those hundred and thirty had been twenty ...
Contents
LUCIAN OF SAMOTHRACEHow Lucian of Samothrace Voyaged to | 15 |
BIBLICAL LITERATURE | 46 |
ANON The Story of AbdAllah of the Land and AbdAllah of the | 53 |
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