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There is a Cromwellian fort at Tresco, on a narrow rock jutting into the sea. Prehistoric relics are too numerous to be mentioned here in detail, and equally numerous are traces of shipwreck. In Tresco Gardens there is one terrace devoted entirely to the figure-heads of vessels that have been cast on these shores. Agnes, and St.
The honor of adding Alaska to the national domain belongs to the statesmen who at the time controlled the Washington Government. They were not figure-heads in the transaction. They were the vital, moving forces. Victories with Which Diplomats Have no Concern. Just the contrary is true of cases like that of the conquest of Texas.
He was a tolerably good workman, and had already carved several figure-heads, in what he intended for feminine shapes, and looking pretty much like those which we see nowadays stuck up under a vessel's bowsprit, with great staring eyes, that never wink at the dash of the spray.
The others, even the wounded one, had made off as soon as they had caught sight of the hovering Golden Eagle. Even from the height at which they were the boys could see that the dead animal had an enormous pair of tusks, no doubt extremely valuable. "We ought to have them there figure-heads," commented Ben Stubbs. "What do you say if we drop down and get them?" Frank looked at his watch.
And I propose, further, to insist that this Commission be composed of manufacturers and business men, and that we dispense with all figure-heads, and I can promise you this, that the first question which shall engage the attention of these men shall be an immediate revision of our tariffs.
Phoenician ships seem to have been placed under the protection of the Cabeiri, and to have had images of them at their stem or stern or both. These images were not exactly "figure-heads," as they are sometimes called. They were small, apparently, and inconspicuous, being little dwarf figures, regarded as amulets that would preserve the vessel in safety.
Either the Moko artists copied the style of the skilful carvers of panels, door-posts, clubs, and the figure-heads on the prows of canoes, or the wood-carvers borrowed and reproduced the lines and curves of the Moko.
"Ships" -and his keen glance, turning away from my face, ran along the vista of magnificent figure-heads that in the late seventies used to overhang in a serried rank the muddy pavement by the side of the New South Dock "ships are all right; it's the men in 'em. . ."
'You may wait awhile with that, my lad, he answered; and, to our astonishment, recommended us to go and clean our faces and prepare to drink some tea at his table. 'Thank you very much, captain, we'll do that when we 're on shore, said we. 'You'll have black figure-heads and empty gizzards, then, by that time, he remarked. We beheld him turning over the leaves of a Bible.
Besides these surface designs, a considerable variety of designs is used in giving decorative form to solid objects such as the handles of swords and paddles, the ends of main roof-beams in the houses, posts used in various rites and in the construction of tombs, the figure-heads of war-boats.
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