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The suffering Trimble put a stop to this by shouting: "Avast wi' the maunderin' nonsense! Push on, lads, and leave this old hulk be. Many a goodly man have I seen drop in the jungle. What matters it? Speed ye to Cap'n Bonnet." "Here is one pirate that won't desert a shipmate," declared Bill Saxby. "And how can we push on without you, old True-Penny, to lay your nose to the trail?
It was quite a walk, but in his eagerness Bob covered the ground in short time. As he was passing a clump of bushes, not far from his destination, he was surprised to hear a voice calling sharply from the darkness: "Avast there!" "Who is it?" asked Bob. "It's me," replied Captain Obed in his husky voice. "I hid out here to signal you so's you wouldn't be followed." "Followed? Who by?"
"Anchor's at the bow, sir," said the boatswain, which report went through the same channels as before, till it reached the executive officer. "Hoist away on the jib and flying-jib halyards! Avast heaving! Pawl the capstan! Stopper the cable! Cat and fish the anchor!" shouted the first lieutenant. "Port the helm!" The Young America was clear of the ground.
Even at the present day the city of Novogorod presents an aspect of singular melancholy; avast inclosure indicates that it was formerly large and populous, and you see nothing in it but scattered houses, the inhabitants of which seem to be placed there like figures weeping over the tombs.
'Here's a black passage to Captain Penfeather curse him!" says a voice. 'Aye, says another, 'by knife or bullet or and here he falls to singing of a knife and a bullet and a hook. 'Avast! says a third voice.
"Avast heaving!" added the lieutenant; and he had taken the command, paying no attention to the fact that he was the second mate under the new order of things, and the engineer did not remind him that he was the chief officer. "Let off the cable a couple of notches, so that the anchor will not break out. Make fast to the bitts, French, but don't foul it with the towline."
On they came, square shouldered, narrow flanked, tall, strapping fellows, tumbling and rolling about the piazzas in knots of three and four, until, at the corner of King Street, they came bolt up upon a well known large, fat, brown lady, famous for her manufacture of spruce beer. "Avast, avast a bit" sung out one of the topmen "let the nobs heave a head, will ye, and let's have a pull."
We hear them before they are seen, and it is always the same dreadful song: "Avast belay, yo ho, heave to, A-pirating we go, And if we're parted by a shot We're sure to meet below!" A more villainous-looking lot never hung in a row on Execution dock.
"I remember something that happened to Billy Longbow " began Sam Mason. "Avast, Sam!" interrupted Jack Tiller; "Billy Longbow ain't in it with Mr. Mole at a yarn." Hunston was, meanwhile, getting into a very bad state of mind. The mechanical arm was resuming its invidious advance its mysterious yet none the less terrible attack.
Starting at the unforeseen concluding exclamation of the so suddenly scornful old man, Stubb was speechless a moment; then said excitedly, "I am not used to be spoken to that way, sir; I do but less than half like it, sir." "Avast! gritted Ahab between his set teeth, and violently moving away, as if to avoid some passionate temptation.
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