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Thus they continued for half an hour, running to the southward and eastward, when I noticed the Havanero, who had gradually crept up under the Josefa's lee quarter, hoist his colours and pennant, and fire a gun at her.
Most of the players were stretched out in peculiar convulsions. Old Spears sat with drooping head. Then a wild flaming-eyed giant swooped upon me. With a voice of thunder he announced: "I'm a-goin' to lick you, too!" After that we never called him any name except Rube. "Fellows, it's this way. You've got to win today's game. It's the last of the season and means the pennant for Worcester.
The Mayflower suddenly swung sharply to the westward, and a moment later a string of butterfly flags went fluttering to her masthead. The New York flung her answering pennant to the breeze, and, making another signal to the fleet, which probably meant “Stay where you are until I get back,” swung her bow to the westward and went racing for the game that the Mayflower had sighted.
Politicians of both sides, the press on all hands, were thundering denunciations upon the city of Damascus, sitting insolent and satiated in its exquisite bloom of pear and nectarine, and the deed itself was fading into that blank past of Eastern life where there "are no birds in last year's nest." If he voyaged with the crowd, his pennant would be lost in the clustering sails!
I entered the river without any disguise of any sort, showing British colours and the man-o'-war's pennant; and, as I had expected, our old friend Lobo soon came alongside in his gig, with his usual stereotyped smiles and bows, and offers to supply us with anything and everything that we might happen to want.
In such like gossipings passed our days away, for our voyage itself had nothing of adventure or incident to break its dull monotony; save some few hours of calm, we had been steadily following our seaward track with a fair breeze, and the long pennant pointed ever to the land where our ardent expectations were hurrying before it.
"Pennant! ah! ah! ah!" with his hands in uplifted admiration "I thought so Pennant. I said so to myself, for I know so many Pennants great family resemblance Great naturalist of that name any relation? Oh yes No I thought so from the first.
He was exceedingly thin; and might, as his associates asserted, have answered, when drunk, for a pennant at the mast-head, or, when sober, have served for a jib-boom. But these jests, and others of a similar nature, had evidently produced, at no time, any effect upon the cachinnatory muscles of the tar.
Pennant; and this was the first time he had ever been under fire, though he had imagined it enough to feel entirely at home. Another shot followed the first, and dropped into the water; and if it had gone fifty feet farther, it would have struck the boat. "Good again!" exclaimed the lieutenant. "I think that is about the range of those guns."
Pennant gives a description of this house, in a tour he made into North Wales in 1780: 'Not far from Dymerchion, lies half buried in woods the singular house of Bâch y Graig. It consists of a mansion of three sides, enclosing a square court.
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