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Then, sais you, in a starn voice like a boatsan's trumpet for if you want things to be remembered, give 'em effect, "Aim high," Sir, sais you. Then like my old father, fetch him a kick on his western eend, that will lift him clean over the table, and say 'that's the way to rise in the world, you young sucking parson you. "Aim high," Sir.
And this is a very important subject, very indeed. There is a monstrous deal in what you say, though you have, I must say, rather a peculiar, an unusual, way of puttin' it. Don't you stay another minit though, nor say another word, for your life; but bow, beg pardon, hold in your breath, that your face may look red, as if you was blushin', and back out, starn fust.
I guess if they won't look ahead for the future, they'll larn to look behind, and see if there's a bank near hand 'em. "A bear always goes down a tree starn foremost.
"Let her starn drift down stream, Jasper," said the man of the woods to the young mariner of the lake, who had dispossessed Arrowhead of his paddle and taken his own station as steersman; "let it go down with the current.
I seed men warn't wanted there, it warn't the custom so airly, so I polled out o' that creek, starn first. They don't like men in the mornin', in England, do the ladies; they think 'em in the way. "'What on airth, shall I do? says I, 'it's nothin' but rain, rain, rain here in this awful dismal country.
The Spanish word is estrella, a modified derivative, but still one that bears in its structure the marks of its Latin origin; the French word étoile is a still more altered product of word evolution. Even in the German stern, Norse stjern, Danish starn, and English star we may recognize mutual affinities and common ancestral structure.
As we came alongside, the captain of her, my friend Obediah, as I had no difficulty in guessing, from his very out of the way configuration, dark as it was, called out, "I says, Paul, who have you got in the starn sheets there?" "A bloody spy, captain; he who was with the overseer when he peppered your sheathing t'other morning." "Oho, bring him on board bring him on board.
If you thinks well, sir, let us heave at her to-day, as afore, by superior orders. Then it come into your mind to try t'other end a bit, and you shift all the guns and heavy lumber forrard to give weight to the bows and lift the starn, and off her will glide at the first tug to-morrow, so sure as my name is Zebedee. But mind one thing, sir, that you keep her, when you've got her.
"She's still hard and fast on the reef, and never another plank sprung from the starn, as far as I can see!" This was good news; and Mr Meldrum, with the mate, hastened to join the carpenter on his perch above.
Sir John, this is an awful predicament!" exclaimed the rebuked Noah; "a ra'ally awful situation for a human Christian to have his enemies lying athwart both bows and starn!" "While there is life there is hope; but it is always best to be prepared for the worst he who is thus prepared never can meet with a disagreeable surprise. Messrs.
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