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"Helm's a lee!" cried the captain, and the head-sheets were let go; "raise tacks and sheets!" and the fore-tacks and main sheets were cast off; while the weather crossjack braces and the lee main braces were belayed, ready to be let go at a moment's notice, and the opposite braces hauled taut.
"Of what consequence is it, in what sea, or on what voyage, a seaman goes into his watery tomb? but for thee, my hapless and playful Eudora, I could wish another fate ha! she tacks! the sea-green lady has an instinct for her children, after all!" The brigantine was in stays. In ten or fifteen minutes more, the vessel was again abeam of the raft, and to windward.
There, indeed, was a vessel, standing directly in, threatening even to cross their very track. She was close on a wind, with her larboard tacks aboard, and had evidently just shaken everything, in the expectation of luffing past the point without tacking. Could she succeed in this, it would be in her power to stand on, until compelled to go about beneath the very cliffs of the town of Sorrento.
We got the starboard tacks aboard, we cast off our weather braces and lifts; we set in the lee braces, and hauled forward by the weather bowlings, and hauled them right, and belayed them, and hauled over the mizzen tack to windward, and kept her full and by as near as she would lie.
But it became time to go on board, and Captain Blockstrop, coming by where Alice sat, said, laughing, "I hope you are not giving my officer too much marmalade, Miss Brentwood? He is over-young to be trusted with a jam-pot, eh, Tacks?" "Too young to go to sea, I should say," said Alice. "Not too young to be a brave-hearted boy, however!" said the Captain.
Mammy was bending over, examining something at her feet. Five ragged strips of pink calico lay along the floor, each held fast at one end by a rusty tack driven into the puncheons. Ivy had grown tired of her bondage, and had tugged and twisted until she got away. The faithful tacks had held fast, but the pink calico, grown thin with long wear and many washings, tore in ragged strips.
But they want me to identify her; and they've sent three officers with me not policemen, you'll notice, because this is an army matter, and before we make an end of it we'll be in the army zone." I don't know just what he saw in my eyes; but it seemed to bother him. He fidgeted a little; as he approached the crucial point, his gaze evaded mine. "Now, then, we'll come down to brass tacks, Mr.
The tacks came out from England in packages made to suit the needs of the English market. They were labelled, quite truthfully of course, "Best English Tacks," and each package contained an ounce, two ounces, or four ounces in weight, and was priced in plain figures at so much in English money. The trader had continual trouble with those packages.
But the very first result of the specializing tendency was to send the man of business, the politician, and the lawyer off on separate tacks. Business interests became so absorbing that they demanded all of a man's time and energy; and he was obliged to neglect politics except in so far as politics affected business.
The wind, being adverse, necessitated several tacks, and on one of them the boat passed so near Webb and Amy that they recognized Mr. Barkdale, the clergyman, who, as he sped by, saluted them. When the boat had passed on about an eighth of a mile, it tacked so suddenly and sharply that the unwary minister was rolled out upon the ice.
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