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Anybody would have to admire them as they came scooting past. When they thought they were close enough to the Breakwater and some went pretty close up or down would go the wheel, according to which end of the jetty they came in by, around they would go, and across the flats and down on the fleet they would come shooting.
Reached Boulogne in safety, and in high spirits made our way on board the steamer, deposited our traps below, came on deck, and prepared for the ordeal. A high north-wester had been blowing all day, and as we ran along behind the breakwater, I could see over it the white and green waves fiendishly running, and showing their malign eyes sparkling with hungry expectation.
"Oh, we will see about that," replied the physician with a sly look at Cora. "There is a telephone in Breakwater " "Duncan Bennet! If I thought I should be late for the `clearing-up' to-morrow I would start right now," declared Clip most emphatically. "Oh, you won't be. We will fix it so the `clearing-up' will be late for you.
On their way across from St. Kitts the adventurers overhauled a small vessel bound to the same port as they were. From the crew of this vessel they learnt that the harbour at St. Domingo was formed, like so many others in the West Indies, by a long sandspit, acting as a natural breakwater.
Architecture of Protection. This is architecture intended to protect men or their possessions from violence of any kind, whether of men or of the elements. It will include all churches, houses, and treasuries; fortresses, fences, and ramparts; the architecture of the hut and sheepfold; of the palace and the citadel: of the dyke, breakwater, and sea-wall.
Belle pointed to a little pavilion in sight of the breakwater. "Let's go over there and sit down a few minutes," she said. "It's a waste of good material to go indoors on a night like this."
Next morning she gave him fifty cents. "Braboy," she said, "ye 've be'n helpin' me nicely wid the washin', an' I 'm going ter give ye a holiday. Ye can take yer hook an' line an' go fishin' on the breakwater. I 'll fix ye a lunch, an' ye need n't come back till night. An' there 's half a dollar; ye can buy yerself a pipe er terbacky.
The men at home, pale and frowning, bit nervously at the ends of their cigars, and, from the lee of the boats drawn up on the sand, studied the lowering horizon with the tense penetrating gaze of sailormen, or nervously watched the harbor entrance beyond the Breakwater on whose red rocks the first storm waves were breaking.
"Carlotta Leghorn to Buenos Ayres; shipping oil one way and hides the other. She's over there" pointing in the direction of the breakwater "beastly old hulk!" "Buenos Ayres yes! Can you hide me anywhere on board?" "How much can you give?" "Not very much; I have only a few paoli." "No. Can't do it under fifty and cheap at that, too a swell like you." "What do you mean by a swell?
"If they keep the breakwater in decent repair, it'll come in handy again." "Yes," burst out Peter. "But, of course, that's where illustrations are so little good: you can't press them. And in any case no engineer worth his salt would sit down by his breakwater and smoke a pipe till the sea came in handy again. His job is to go after it." "True for ye, boy.
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