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Updated: June 30, 2025
Up comes the schooner's head to the wind, the sails flapping with the noise of thunder blocks rattling against the deck, as if they wanted to knock their brains out ropes dancing about in galvanised coils, like mad serpents and everything to an inexperienced eye in inextricable confusion; till gradually she pays off on the other tack the sails stiffen into deal-boards the staysail sheet is let go and heeling over on the opposite side.
But they were established merely with the view of raising the shares in the market. The projectors took the first opportunity of a rise to sell out, and next morning the scheme was at an end. Maitland, in his History of London, gravely informs us, that one of the projects which received great encouragement, was for the establishment of a company "to make deal-boards out of saw-dust."
The walls were bare, and painted in stone-colour; the floors, devoid of carpet; the beds, of hangings; the windows, of blinds; and, excepting in the thief-taker's own audience-chamber, there was not a chair or a table about the premises; the place of these conveniences being elsewhere supplied by benches, and deal-boards laid across joint-stools.
In seasons of rain The Sahara creates this wood quickly, it then perishes for want of rain. Sometimes wood for building is brought from Tripoli, i. e., deal-boards. Our caravan brought some doors for a mosque, made of deal. This evening was a grand celebration of divine worship in the house of the Rais, and a Marabout chanted verses from the Koran.
And now be so good as to take your papers off of the table, so that I can lay the cloth." De Vlierbeck got up and did as he was asked. Lenora covered the deal-boards with a snowy napkin and placed on it two plates and a dish of potatoes.
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