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"Dans le quoi?" "I believe I have not given the real Parisian pronunciation to this word, which the French call bal-lay", continued the reader, with great candour. "Belay, or make all fast, as we say on ship-board. Mr.
"Hoist away on your forward tackle," ordered the Captain. "Belay! Make fast! Now get a hold of this guy. Lively there, you men. Noble, aloft on the booms and shoulder her over." She canted clear of the groove in the chocks as they swung the forward davit out and the Captain stepped abaft the men who hauled. "Lively now," he called. "Don't keep those chaps waiting, men. After davit tackle, haul!
She turned to blaze at Cap'n Ira and Prudence. "He picked her up somewhere some low creature! But I'll show them both up; that's what I'll do. I'll make them both sorry for cheating me. I guess you folks have got a heap of money, and that fellow and that girl are trying to get it all. But they won't. I'll have my rights or " "Belay that!" exclaimed Cap'n Ira suddenly.
Weather sheet's home! ``Lee sheet's home! ``Hoist away, sir! is bawled from aloft. ``Overhaul your clew-lines! shouts the mate. ``Aye, aye, sir! all clear! ``Taut leech! belay! Well the lee brace; haul taut to windward, and the royals are set. These brought us up again; but, the wind continuing light, the California set hers, and it was soon evident that she was walking away from us.
Belay all that, my charmers;" and so he went on whistling and shouting, until we had studding-sails extended below and aloft on either side, and both royals set, and were running along at the rate of some seven or eight knots an hour before a light breeze. Harry and I on all occasions lent a hand when we thought we could be of use, and Tom did not fail to bestow his approving remarks upon us.
The bird repeated the sentence two or three times, and then mounting to the top of its master's head cried out "Pipe all hands, hoist away boys, belay there!" Then as if satisfied with its nautical performance, descended to old Alec's hand, and sang two or three tunes very distinctly.
By this time we had dragged the criminal to a post, to which Bowling tied him with a rope he had provided on purpose; after having secured his hands and stripped his back. Syntax, I believe you are an honest man, d'ye see and I have a respect for you but for all that, we must, for our own security, d'ye see, belay you for a short time."
As soon as the prisoner was cast loose, he commanded to pipe down, or in other words, to dismiss the people to their usual occupations, when I went up to him, and touched my hat. "Oh! you are come, are you? Pipe belay there send everybody aft on the quarter-deck." My commission was then read all hats off in respect to the sovereign, from whom the authority was derived.
He seemed invulnerable, a thing too great to strike or defy, like the white squalls that swooped from the horizon and made of the vast Villingen a victim and a plaything. His full, boastful eye traveled over them absently, and they cringed like slaves. "Belay, dere!" came his orders, overloud and galling to men surging with cowardly and insufferable haste. "Lower tobsail haul! Belay!
"Brace round the foreyard round with it; set the jib that's it fore-top-mast staysail haul never mind if the gale takes it out of the bolt-rope" a thundering flap, and away it flew in truth down to leeward, like a puff of white smoke. "Never mind, men, the jib stands. Belay all that down with the helm, now don't you see she has stern way yet?
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