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Joining their horny hands over the rough table at which they sat, they wished each other Merry Christmas in their can of grog; and one of them the elder too, with his face all damaged and scarred with hard weather, as the figure-head of an old ship might be struck up a sturdy song that was like a gale in itself.
By the way, where did you learn that my cousin attempted to take the Bronx into Pensacola Bay?" asked Christy curiously, though he was using up the time he could not yet improve. "It was not your cousin at all who attempted to take the vessel into Pensacola Bay; it was Galvinne, for Corny only acted as a figure-head, as I intend to use you.
I mentioned before, that when Swinburne joined us at Plymouth, he had recommended a figure-head being put on the brig. This had been done at O'Brien's expense not in the cheap way recommended by Swinburne, but in a very handsome manner. It was a large snake coiled up in folds, with its head darting out in a menacing attitude, and the tail, with its rattle appeared below.
There was the old Dido, she put in here about two years ago, and sent one watch off on liberty; they never were heard of again for a week the natives swore they didn't know where they were and only three of them ever got back to the ship again, and one with his face damaged for life, for the cursed heathens tattooed a broad patch clean across his figure-head.
I suppose few commanding-officers will allow of this liberty; for it must be owned that as Jack's taste in female beauty, and in the disposition and colours of dress, are borrowed from a very questionable model, his labours in adorning the figure-head are apt to produce strange monsters.
"Oh, father," said Walter, "why will you not see that the prize is a living woman, a woman with a will of her own, and not a French eagle, or the figure-head of a ship? Now do listen to reason." "Not a word," said the Colonel, marching off. "But excuse me," said Walter, "I have another thing far more important to speak to you about: this unhappy lawsuit."
The mournful shake of the head was eloquently negative. "And yet you will not resume that life for which alone you were educated?" "I will not, and I cannot." "Well, you must either go on the highway or marry a fortune." "Look at this figure-head look at this scar. No no one will ever splice with such an old ravelled-out rope-yarn as Andrew Pigtop. The road is no longer a gentlemanly profession.
"Lord love ye, shipmate that's the spirit!" said a voice below me, "But keep the wind o' them don't let 'em rake ye douse your figure-head. Lie low, shipmate, lie low and trust to your comrade Adam Penfeather and that's me. Patience is the word!"
"In Edinburgh, in the Canongate, there stands a tenement known as Morocco Land, over the second floor of which leans forward, like a figure-head, the wooden statue of a Moor, black and naked, with a turban and a string of beads; and concerning this statue the following tale is told. "In the reign of King James or King Charles I. I cannot remember which there happened a riot in Edinburgh.
This was how the Catholic Church in Red River stimulated the diseased vanity and the lawless spirit of this thrice-dangerous Guiteau of the plains. I have already said that Bruce was put up by Riel as a mere figure-head. When the end of the pretence had been accomplished, this poor scare-crow was thrown down and Louis Riel assumed the presidency of the Provisional Government.
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