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"Oh!" shrieked Dot, but her cry was smothered by the noise made by the sailor's fist, as he banged it down on the table. "Avast!" he roared fiercely. "You put down that there jack-knife. Didn't the Cap'n say as you wasn't to tease your sister?" "Oh, yes!" cried the boy; "I forgot. It was only my fun." "Your fun!" cried the sailor, looking his ugliest. "Don't you cry, my pretty.
Being essentially Scotch, Jim managed to time his meals so as to last over. And sometimes if a boat was stuck on a sand-bar he did the MacFadden act for a whole day. It became a sort of joke in the office, and we hear of Mr. Bass, the agent, shouting up to the pilot-house of a steamboat, "Avast there, sir, for five minutes until Jim Hill stows his hold."
Easy, then, my hearties," he added, seeing that the fishermen were approaching him again, with ropes in their hands. "Avast! stow your handcuffs." In spite of his oaths and struggles, the inebriated mariner was firmly bound, hand and foot, and placed in the centre of the assembly.
"We know exactly what you meant to do, and we don't care; for now, you see, you can't do it." And the captain looked at him calmly, and proceeded to fill a pipe. "If Abe Gray " Silver broke out. "Avast there!" cried Mr. Smollett. "Gray told me nothing, and I asked him nothing; and what's more, I would see you and him and this whole island blown clean out of the water into blazes first.
The other glanced up the angular height of his antagonist. "Try it," he said, squaring his sturdy little figure. "Try it, and I'll climb your main riggin' and dance a jig on that dog-vane of a head of yourn." This alacrity for combat clearly backed down Ward. In his rampageous life his tongue had usually served him better than his fists. "Avast, shipmate!" called the Cap'n, in his best sea tones.
We got up to it before the fish appeared; our oars were out of the water; our harpooner standing up and watching eagerly every sign of the approach of our expected prey, guiding by signs the boat-steerer, who, with his oar, was silently impelling on the boat by sculling. "Gently, boys there's her eddy two strokes more now avast pulling!"
"Hold on, hold on, won't ye?" cried Stubb to the body, "don't be in such a devil of a hurry to sink! By thunder, men, we must do something or go for it. No use prying there; avast, I say with your handspikes, and run one of ye for a prayer book and a pen-knife, and cut the big chains." "Knife?
"Oh, come now, Handy, this thing has gone far enough. I appreciate all you did for me in an emergency, but there's no necessity for keeping up the deception any longer. I tell you I have an important engagement " "Hold! Avast heaving and take a hitch," interrupted the veteran. "Give me no more of that important engagement business in mine. I have some say in this matter, I have."
"We must leave the raft to take its chance, sir, while we chase the mistico, I suppose," asked Saltwell. "Yes, by all means haul up a couple of points on the starboard tack." "Port the helm. Larboard fore braces. Starboard after braces," cried Saltwell. "Avast," exclaimed Captain Fleetwood, who had been looking at the raft through his glass. "Starboard the helm again. Keep her as she was.
So impatient were they to get over the road that they could not be prevailed upon, at any of the numerous inns where they pulled up for refreshment, to stop long enough to have the wheels properly greased, crying out at the delay: "Avast there! she's had tar enough," and so on again.
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