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Receiving no answer, he immediately repeated, in a shorter, quicker call, "Forecastle, there?" "Sir," answered Jack Tier, who by this time had come to his senses. "Who has the look-out on that forecastle?" "I have it, sir I, Jack Tier. You know, sir, I was to have it from two 'till daylight." "Ay, ay, I remember now. How does the brig ride to her anchor?" "As steady as a church, sir.
What hindered them from marching off in a body? Perhaps the Israelitish matrons stood sentry in rotation round the kitchens, while the young ladies scoured the country, as mounted rangers, picking up stragglers by day, and patrolled the streets, keeping a sharp look-out at night. IV. Their continuance in Jewish families depended upon the performance of various rites necessarily VOLUNTARY.
It was Stevenson's watch, and as he walked the poop he stopped suddenly, for the look-out reported a sail to the W.S.W. Foster came on deck at once and went aloft In a quarter of an hour it was evident that the stranger bore towards them. The wind was south-east, and very little of it. "What are you going to do?" asked the mate. "I fancy this is one of the Dutchmen who are on the look-out for us."
At about one o'clock, as I calculated, I awoke Jackson, and bade him keep an eager look-out and not to spare his ear in putting it against the night, "for," says I, "there's nothing to be done with the eyes; it's all for the hearing at such a time as this, mate, and what you can't watch for you must listen for; and wake me up to any sound you may hear, that our three throats may hail together.
By five in the morning all were astir, and jokes and laughter and shrill unaccountable cries would rouse us up, and go on all day, save when school and chapel came to sober them. 'The Bishop had not lost his Eton tastes, and only liked to see them play games, and the little fat merry-faced lads were always on the look-out for a bit of fun with him.
Their leader did not fail to keep a look-out on every side sometimes hurrying on ahead to the top of a rock, from whence he could take a glance over the country around to ascertain whether any one was moving; still they did not appear to be very anxious, and they must have been aware of the exact spot in which Kepenau and his tribe were encamped, while they knew that they were not likely to encounter other foes.
The chase continued till evening, when suddenly the look-out at the mast-head shouted, "Land, ho!" "Where away?" cried the captain. "Right ahead," sang out the man. "I'll run her ashore sooner than be taken," muttered the captain, with an angry scowl at the schooner, which was now almost within range on the weather quarter, with the dreaded black flag flying at her peak.
I was reflecting on the best situation for a Consul in Northern Sahara. The point would be Touat, the nucleus of many routes, the great highways of commerce in The Desert. From this point a British Consul could keep a sharp look-out on the French, moving southward. A Mussulman doctor told me with great solemnity this morning, that five hundred years were necessary to go round the world.
"You see, youngsters, what confidence I place in you," he observed. "I could not venture to shut my eyes if I didn't feel sure that you would keep a bright look-out. It is for your good besides, that you may know how to act when left in command of a boat." The midshipmen suspected that Rhymer thought more of his own comfort than of benefiting them. They passed several small islands.
These arrangements consisted of a ladder to be placed at a window, and the goods that she intended taking to be ready on the back of a horse, and were all carried out by two of the domestic men-servants who had been bribed, and who also undertook to keep a good look-out until the eloping party had got quite clear.
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