United States or Fiji ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
He can be as technical as he pleases, and the reader takes him on faith, and rollicks along with him, bewildered, possibly, but trusting and happy. And Clark Russell has not only been charming. He has been useful, too, and Foc'sle Jack owes him a debt of gratitude.
"Where away?" cried everyone eagerly. "Right off the lee-bow there, don't you see it?" At that moment a faint cry came floating over the black water, and died away in the breeze. The single word "Hurrah!" burst from our throats with all the power of our lungs, and we bent to our oars till we wellnigh tore the rollicks out of the boat.
She spreads her light, gauzy, grey, and shockingly inadequate, skirts, and romps and rollicks away, giving one a fleeting impression of a bold and most disorderly ballet girl. "She" is quite the proper mode of address, for there can be no mistake as to the sex. The male is a slim individual, not half the length, and about one-fourth of the circumference of the female.
I don't like paddles. After we're safe away I'll try to rig up rollicks for them." "Now, then, in with you and shove off."
We were a lantern-jawed, scarecrow lot, and our general appearance emphasized the story we had to tell of the privations we had suffered. We had scarcely strength enough to lift the oars into the rollicks, much less pull the boat through a choppy sea.
I don't like paddles. After we're safe away I'll try to rig up rollicks for them." "Now, then, in with you and shove off."
Deep and definite the shadows, offspring of lordly light and steadfast leaves not mere insubstantialities, but stars deep sculptured in the grey rock. And when an intemperate sprite romps and rollicks, and all the features of prettiness and repose are distraught under the bluster and lateral blur of a cyclone, still do I revel in the scene.
Word Of The Day