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"And how'll they make harbor, not knowin' what to sail by?" "That bit of a craft would never stand half a gale, and if she meets th' ice she'll crumple up like an eggshell." "And they'll be havin' some nasty weather, I says. We'll never hear o' she again or any o' them on board." "Unless by the mercy o' God."
But though the first rage of the storm was terrible enough, its fierceness did not come to its height till about one o'clock in the middle watch. Long before then the sea had grown mountainous, and the dance of our eggshell of a brig upon it was sickening and affrighting.
"But you've a good, solid cranium as I've often told you. Not much to get hurt above the ears mostly bone all the way through. Not easy to crack, like some of these eggshell heads." Lawford felt the effects of the blow, however, for the rest of the evening. His father was away and so he had no support against the organized attack of the women of the family.
Chad had solved the mystery, Aunt Nancy came yesterday. I found the table set for four, its chief feature being a tray bearing a heap of eggshell cups and saucers I had not seen before, and an old-fashioned tea-urn humming a tune all to itself. "De colonel's out, but he comin' back d'rektly," Chad said eagerly, all out of breath with excitement. Then followed the information that Mr.
She chipped an eggshell and took a bit of dry toast. "All those who appear in Vanity Fair are celebrated, aren't they?" she said. "I suppose so," Eustace said. "For many different things." "Of course." "Can you refuse the editor's request?" "I don't know why I should." "Exactly. Tell me when you have written to him, and what you have written, Eustace." "Yes, Winnie, I will."
They had already mustered in the field at an earlier season of the year, in considerable force. Calling themselves "the desperates," and bearing on their standard an eggshell with the yolk running out to indicate that, having lost the meat they were yet ready to fight for the shell they had swept through the open country, pillaging and burning.
No one would have suspected what treasures were concealed within the rough trunk of that old oak but for an accident. Madam herself was the culprit. In carrying out an eggshell, broken at one end and of no further use, she dropped it near the foot of the tree. To her this was doubtless a disaster, but to me it was a treasure-trove, for it told her well-kept secret.
But when the door behind Helen, urged by the wind through the broken casement, banged to, the man made his first lightning-like sign. He dashed the lamp to the floor, where it burst like an eggshell, and darkness leaped into the room as an animal pounces.
Perhaps it was lucky they did not succeed in this attempt, for the boat would no doubt have been crushed like an eggshell on the rocks. Instead, they began to float down parallel with the coast, carried on the crest of the big tide-bore which every day passes down the east coast of Kadiak between the long, parallel islands which make an inland channel many miles in extent.
Twenty minutes before I had awakened from a sort of swoon and was overwhelmed with misery; and now here was I taking a collected view of my situation, even to the extent of being willing to believe that on the whole it was perhaps as well that I should have been hindered from putting to sea in my little eggshell.
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