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"Do you see the line of the Race?" said Bramble; "it seems strong to-night." Bramble referred to what is called by the mariners the Race of Portland, where the uneven ground over which the water runs creates a very heavy sea even in a calm. Small smuggling vessels and boats, forced into it in bad weather, have often foundered.

They left the restaurant, roamed about the streets, and foundered again in the depths of a cafe, where they philosophised. They had come by degrees to raking up the memories of their childhood, and this ended by filling their hearts with sadness. One o'clock in the morning struck when they decided to go home. However, Sandoz talked of seeing Claude as far as the Rue Tourlaque.

"I wonder what he meant by a dog's heart?" she thought to herself, as she left the old woman sitting by the hole in the roof pricking out the parchment in all faith that she earned her money, and looking every now and then through the forests of masts for the brig with the hank of flax flying, the brig that had foundered fifty long years before in the northern seas, and in the days of her youth.

She made a good boy of him; but the poor feller went down with the rest in the gale of 1875, on the Grand Banks. John had hard luck. The next trip all hands foundered. They reckoned she went down at the anchorage. "Have some beans, won't ye?" asked the skipper abruptly, as if he had been deluded by some trick into a gloomy frame of mind and was determined to shake it off then and there.

So we passed out of the trench into a soapy, slippery mud which had been ploughed ground in the autumn, now become lathery with the beat of men's steps. Our party became separated when some foundered and tried to hoist themselves with both boot-straps at once. The CO. called out in order to locate us in the darkness, and the voice of an officer in the trenches cut in, "Keep still!

"His lordship don't know nothing about the vicarage," bellowed out the butler, opening the hall-door only half way, so that his face just appeared above the lock. "Oh, dear! oh, dear!" said Mrs. Wilkinson. "Just let me down into the hall, and then I will explain it to you." "Them 'orses 'll be foundered as sure as heggs," said the post-boy. Mrs.

Here were Colorado Jim and the pards on foundered horses, pursuing a rapid individual who was escaping only too easily. Never desert a comrade. The Triangle X boys uttered whoops, and joined the game at speed. Not gaining as rapidly as they wished, they produced long revolvers and began to shoot. It is a little difficult to hit anything from a running horse.

His Majesty's pilot gave a knowing look, and laid his hand on his breast "No more of dat if you love me, massa." "Well, well, it don't signify now, my boy; she will never give you that trouble again foundered all hands lost, Peter, but the two you see before you." "Werry sorry, Massa Plinter, werry sorry What! de black cooksmate and all? But misfortune can't be help.

Swiggart, better known as Old Smarty, told me in confidence that "she wouldn't stand no foolishness"; and he added, reflectively, that she was something of a "bull-dozer." I knew that Old Smarty had sold his boarder an aged and foundered bronco for fifty dollars, and that within twenty-four hours the animal had been returned to him and the money refunded to Miss Birdie.

But he did not find out until King told him, and that was many days later, when a terrible cloud no longer threatened India from the North. Oh, a broken blade, And an empty bag, And a sodden kit, And a foundered nag, And a whimpering wind Are more or less Ground for a gentleman's distress. Shades of a gallant past confess! How many fights were won with less? I think I envy you!" said Courtenay.