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And it was well that I did so, for the Russians were in the very act of launching a torpedo at the moment; indeed they actually did launch it, but by one of those extraordinary flukes that sometimes happen, and are so difficult to describe convincingly, one of our shots struck the weapon at the instant that it issued from the tube, wrecking its propeller and rudder and sending it to the bottom.
A warp was next passed over the port bow of the ship outside the fore-rigging, and then inboard again through the gangway, and secured to the bow of the boat, sufficient slack being left to allow her to go astern. However, just as we were launching the boat a sea struck her, and stove in two planks of the port bilge.
I address this last-minute appeal to every single member of the community, the champion warriors in the army of Bahá’u’lláh, which since launching the Plan formulated by the Center of His Covenant never succumbed to defeat nor was thwarted in its purpose, to arise resolutely, volunteer instantly to fill the gap in the main defenses of the home front and register total victory ere the termination of the second year of the Second Seven Year Plan.
Do not let us be afraid when 'the things that can be shaken' shake, but let us see in the shaking the attendant of a new curriculum on which the great Teacher is launching His scholars, and let us learn the new lessons of the old Gospel which He is then teaching. III. Thirdly, note the participation in the Father's love which is the issue of the knowledge of the Father's name.
He was stockholder of munition factories as big as towns, and of navigation companies launching a ship every half year. The Emperor was interesting himself in these works, looking benevolently on all those who wished to aid him. Besides this, Karl was buying land.
"Ah, a time bomb!" "Naturally." "And if Hilmer should be late?" "He is always on time... And, besides, there is a special reason. He wants the launching accomplished on the stroke of noon." "And if he comes too early?" "Impossible. He went south last week ... you knew that, of course. And he doesn't get into San Francisco until late that morning.
"But that will delay us at least forty-eight hours, and the launching date is so near at hand," protested the inventor. "You'd better put your launching off two days, Mr. Pollard, than take any chances of having a bad connection in your fuel feed pipes," argued the foreman. "Confound such luck!" growled Pollard, turning away.
"It will be best to wait till the sea goes down, when we shall be able to get the boat into the water with less risk of her being swamped than at present." They, however, paid no attention to his orders, and continued their preparations for launching the boat.
Goldsmith on this occasion drew on himself the attention of the company by launching out with enthusiasm on the poems recently given to the world by Chatterton as the works of an ancient author by the name of Rowley, discovered in the tower of Redcliffe Church, at Bristol. Goldsmith spoke of them with rapture, as a treasure of old English poetry.
Yonder, I said to myself, is the battle-field of a soul, struggling with its last great foe; yonder the central crisis of all time and all eternity; yonder the heaving breast, the eager, onward look, the unravelling of mystery, the launching of a soul upon eternal seas.
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