United States or Comoros ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
For here are docks for the repairs I dare not say of how many vessels, and ship-houses for the construction of one knows not how many more, and work-shops and arsenals and stores of timber and iron well-nigh inexhaustible. This is to have more than a hundred ships. This is to create productive capacity out of which may come many hundred ships, when they are wanted.
The lofty ship-houses in which vessels are constructed, and the long stone rope-walk, with its curious machinery, also attracted their attention. So interested were they in these things, that nearly two hours elapsed before they started for home. On their way back to the hotel, Joseph entertained Alfred and Oscar with some incidents of his life. His mother, he said, died when he was quite young.
Sometimes one of these monster precipices had the slight inclination of the huge ship-houses in dockyards then high aloft, toward the sky, it took a little stronger inclination, like that of a mansard roof and perched on this dizzy mansard one's eye detected little things like martin boxes, and presently perceived that these were the dwellings of peasants an airy place for a home, truly.
"The rocket sped high in air, paused a second, and burst in showers of many colored lights; and, as it did so, the well-set trains at the ship-houses, and on the decks of the fated vessels left behind, went off as if lit simultaneously by the rocket. One of the ship-houses contained the old 'New York, a ship thirty years on the stocks, and yet unfinished; the other was vacant.
Sometimes one of these monster precipices had the slight inclination of the huge ship-houses in dockyards then high aloft, toward the sky, it took a little stronger inclination, like that of a mansard roof and perched on this dizzy mansard one's eye detected little things like martin boxes, and presently perceived that these were the dwellings of peasants an airy place for a home, truly.
Word Of The Day