United States or Poland ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"A water-logged derelict, I think, sir," said the second officer quietly, coming down from aloft with the binoculars in their case slung across his shoulders; and our captain, without a word, signed to the helmsman to steer for the black speck. Presently we made out a low, jagged stump sticking up forward all that remained of her departed masts.
"We've been waiting 'n' watching, and not more'n a minute ago we were at the window looking along the edge of the Bay through the binoculars. You must have been under the ridge. My God! A little while ago I thought I was dying I thought I was alone in the world alone alone. But look look, Billy, I've got a fam'ly!" Little Mystery had climbed to her feet.
With our binoculars we saw that there was much confusion on the German decks as they hastily cleared for action. Our attack had evidently taken them completely by surprise and they had no flyers ready to dispute our mastery of the air. Presently General Wood re-entered the cabin. "I have a wireless from Commodore Tower saying that everything is ready.
Out of breath I stood up in the dusty waterless tank, and got out my binoculars. Towards where the crackle of machine-guns had been heard, I saw a bush-clad bank. Tucked up against it were horses and guns. Big Boche shells kept falling near, and the landscape was wreathed in smoke.
His last act was to cast a perfunctory glance in the direction of Arcadia House, and it seemed that his eye caught the flutter of something white. He raised the binoculars it was true, the signal was there, a handkerchief tied to the lattice-blind of the cupola window. Constans frowned and reflected.
Now, is she racing with that other chap; or is she running away from him?" He turned his binoculars upon the sternmost ship, which was also coming along at a great rate, and gradually lifting above the horizon. About half the length of her masts two of them was now showing; and as Mildmay focussed his lenses upon them an ejaculation of astonishment escaped his lips.
I had been here no more than three months when a Scientist was hot on my trail. A most disagreeable fellow, always sneaking about with binoculars, a camera, and, I fear, a gun. That is why you startled me for an instant. I thought you were he." "Oh," David cried, "I'm awfully sorry. I didn't bother you on purpose.
But his occupations are irregular undertaken by fits and starts, and never to be counted on. His evenings he usually devotes to poetry and pipes for the captain is obstinate, and sticks like most of us to his failings as well as his fancies. There is a certain eccentric individual with an enthusiastic temperament and blue binoculars who pays frequent and prolonged visits to the Keeling Islands.
Standing full in the morning glow of it was Marie-Anne Boulain. She was facing him. Her cheeks were flushed. Her red lips were parted. Her eyes were aglow with a fire which she made no effort to hide from him. In her hand she still held the binoculars he had left on the cabin table. He guessed the truth. Through the glasses she had watched the whole miserable fiasco.
The islet was also uninhabited; for he had a clear view of the whole of it, and could discover nothing that even remotely resembled a hut; no, not even with the aid of his binoculars. So, satisfied at length that he had found the kind of spot that Sir Reginald had in his mind's eye, Mildmay took the ship over the lagoon, allowed her to settle gently into the placid water, and let go her anchor.
Word Of The Day