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As a consequence, the whole of our five ships hit her together on the broadside, tearing her planking with their underwater beaks, and sinking her before we had backed clear from the engage. But if we thus brought the enemy's number down to five, and so equal to our own, the advantage did not remain with us for long.
Like blocks of concrete in a building, they can slide a bit on each other, but friction holds them till they slip with a jar and we have earthquakes. This is one of the planetary blocks. We see Eros from Earth intermittently, for when this thing turns broadside it reflects a lot of light; edge on it does not reflect so much." It was a desolate bit of rock.
He went bounding down the vast broadside, spring after spring, like an ibex. He grew small and smaller till he became a bobbing pigmy, away down toward the bottom then disappeared. We turned and peered over the other side forty seconds eighty seconds a hundred happiness, he is dead already! two minutes and a quarter "There he goes!" Too true it was too true. He was very small, now.
Round to the right the ship swung as upon a pivot; then, caught by the wind, she settled gently broadside to the mole.
No, by George! every spar is standing," exclaimed the captain, as the smoke from the Champion's broadside cleared away. She immediately again came to the wind.
Richard's boat, meanwhile, had contrived to shoot the weir, and was swinging, bottom upward, broadside with the current down the rapid backwater. "Will you let it go?" said the damsel, eying it curiously. "It can't be stopped," he replied, and could have added: "What do I care for it now!" His old life was whirled away with it, dead, drowned. His new life was with her, alive, divine.
As if in answer, another flag fluttered up the Nevski's halliards. "He will send a boat," interpreted Maclean. A short period of fret and fume ensued, then a small steam launch rounded the Nevski's bows, and sped like a gray-hound across the intervening space. The Nevski now presented her broadside to the Saigon, and all of her six guns were trained upon the English steamer's decks.
When they came close to the wreck they found her head was lying about north, so that the great wind and sea were beating right on her broadside, and a strong tide was also running in the same direction right across the ship.
The pilots rang the bell for the engineers to "come ahead," and as the Boxer turned out into the river, thus bringing her broadside guns to bear on the boat, two more shells completed the ruin. The rebels were caught in their own trap. Their boat was sinking, half their number either dead or wounded, and all who were able to swim were springing into the water and making for the nearest shore.
Some effected their escape, but others were overtaken by the fire-ships, and were seen surrounded by flames. The frigate had been kept under weigh, firing sometimes at the fire-ships as they sailed by, and at others at boats which were supposed to be English. As the fire reached the guns of the burning ships they were discharged right and left, and a whole broadside was poured into the frigate.
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