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A few minutes more and they heard the sound also the sharp ring of a sledge upon the ice, and the beat of horse hooves as it drew nearer. Now horses were prizes greatly in demand at the English fort, and Rogers was eager to obtain possession of this prize.
"Dat very good advice, Massa Gascoigne," observed Mesty. This plan was acted upon; only three men were left in the lateens, and four in the galliot, and the vessels, in obedience to the orders, sheered off on both sides of the Rebiera, who made all sail and started ahead of the prizes.
At this moment Mesty jumped up the side. "Massa Easy, I hear row-boat not far off." "So do we, Mesty. Gascoigne, jump into the boat tell the men in the prizes to make all sail right out, and leave us to defend their retreat stay on board of one and divide your men." "Dat all right, Massa Easy. Mr Gascoigne, be smart and now, sar, cut cable and make sail; no time get up anchor."
"I picked them to meet Scannel and Boynton. And I'll bet they beat 'em, too." "Why didn't you enter the doubles?" asked Clint. "Oh, I had enough to do looking after the thing," replied Amy, "and getting through the singles." Clint smiled. "I reckon the real reason was that you didn't want to hog the show and take both prizes, eh?" "No fear of that, I guess," answered the other evasively.
He was the winner of numerous prizes, and he also wrote a great deal of music for the violin. His greatest pupil was Sarasate. Alard married the daughter of Vuillaume, one of the best violin makers of France, and through him became the owner of one of the most beautiful Stradivarius violins. Alard died in Paris, February 22, 1881.
You must have read the proclamations of our governors in the West Indies, and therefore remember that one dated at Guadeloupe, and another dated at the City of San Domingo, both declare, without farther ceremony, all American and other neutral ships and cargoes good and lawful prizes, when coming from or destined to any port in the Island of St.
If, right after that, I ask him to put on lavender gloves and a topper and distribute the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School, there will be a divorce in the family. He would pin a note to the pincushion and be off like a rabbit. No, my lad, you're for it, so you may as well make the best of it." "But, Aunt Dahlia, listen to reason. I assure you, you've got hold of the wrong man.
It appeared a huge joke that this seedy, broken-down man, without a person in the wide world to respect him or believe in him, could ever have been justified in any of our high hopes could ever have stood in the places we filled now, and, like us, securely counted on winning the prizes of life. Then he produced the little white envelopes which he had hitherto forgotten, and we read that Mrs.
Nelson's captains competed eagerly for the command of French prizes, which were better built and from superior designs. The American frigates of 1812 were incomparably better than the corresponding classes in the British service were; and so on in many other instances.
They had each got a whale alongside, and were carrying every rag of canvas they could spread, in order to get in with their prizes. Our old acquaintance, the CHANCE, was there, the three others being her former competitors, except those who were disabled, still lying in Port William.
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