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"Humph! a sailing-vessel bound for Copenhagen; and the captain's a villanous-looking fellow, you say?" said the detective, in a thoughtful tone. "He's about the villanousest I ever set eyes on," answered Mr. Tibbles. "Well, Sawney, it's a bad job, certainly; but I've no doubt you've done your best."
Both Phillis and I thought he would be a month on the seas. Phillis began to speak, but her voice did not come rightly at first. It was a little higher pitched than usual, when she said, 'We thought he would be a month if he went in a sailing-vessel, or perhaps longer. I suppose he went in a steamer? 'Old Obadiah Grimshaw was more than six weeks in getting to America, observed cousin Holman.
"Overhaul your clewlines!" shouts the mate. "Aye-aye, sir, all clear!" "Taut leech! belay! Well the lee brace; haul taut to windward!" and the royals are set. What would the captain of any sailing-vessel of our time say to that? He would say, "The man that wrote that didn't learn his trade out of a book, he has been there!"
Interfere with her no further yourself, but have all in readiness to quit England, as you had before proposed, as soon as Violante be in your power." "All is in readiness," said the count. "Levy has agreed to purchase a famous sailing-vessel of one of his clients.
Greek fishing-boats are plying hither and thither; one noble sailing-vessel, with all sails set, is slowly ploughing her way down toward the Dardanelles probably a grain- ship from the Black Sea and the smoke from a couple of steamers is discernible in the distance.
Satisfaction is the foe to progress. As long as you are fully satisfied, you are like a sailing-vessel in a dead calm. The sea about you may be very smooth. Everything may be very peaceful and serene. But all the time this calm prevails you are getting nowhere; you are at a standstill.
Nor did his removal affect the acquisitiveness of his successor, who loyally followed in his footsteps. As soon as a sailing-vessel arrived in the Roads, the galley fire had to be put out before she was allowed to come into the Mole. All cooking was done ashore at a cookhouse that was loathsomely dirty.
In the earlier days of American history it was the intelligent, self-reliant part of the European communities who dared the expense and hardship of the long sea voyage by a sailing-vessel, and faced the exigencies of the New World. The immigrants of those days were mostly farmers and skilled mechanics, who brought with them the habit and prestige of success.
The sense of distance, the long weeks at sea in a sailing-vessel, the new country and the new people, all impressed themselves upon a very sensitive mind, a mind which, even without such emotional preparation, was ready to respond to any deeply emotional appeal. Then came the appeal.
In the throat of the English Channel a blundering steamship did her best to run them down, and actually rasped sides with the sailing-vessel as she tore past into the night; but nobody made an attempt to jump for safety on to her decks, nobody even took the trouble to swear at her with any thing like heartfelt profanity.
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