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Updated: July 17, 2025
Richard solicits a passport. Maynard's answer. The alarm given. King Richard's flight through Germany. Richard concealed near Vienna. His messenger. Torturing the messenger. The king a captive. The archduke imprisons Richard in Tiernsteign. The emperor buys the prisoner. It was now late in the season, and the autumnal gales had begun to blow.
I don't like to talk of family squabbles, even to my most intimate friends." "So we may look for some family breezes and squalls ere long, if not gales," said Gildart with a laugh. Kenneth shook his head gravely.
Yea; he is held to be a bigger knight than even Sir Launcelot of the Lake or Sir Tristram of Lyonesse or Sir Lamorack of Gales. Wherefore I beseech you to turn about and go away whither you have come whilst there is still the chance for you to escape." Nevertheless, in spite of the danger in this quest, I am still of the same mind as I was when I came hither.
After four hundred years of maritime progress, the passage of the narrow strait that separates Newfoundland from Labrador remains still rough and dangerous, even for the great steel ships of to-day. We can imagine how forbidding it must have looked to Cartier and his companions from the decks of their small storm-tossed caravels. Heavy gales from the west came roaring through the strait.
I have been at sea ever since I was a boy, and in more hurricanes and gales of wind than I can well count up, and yet I never was shipwrecked, and here I am alive and well," answered Captain Johns, to whom the question had been put. "But, captain, there is a saying, `the pitcher which goes often to the well gets broken at last."
But before they were ready to begin their building operations in earnest, the long-expected change of weather or rather the change of the seasons had come upon them, and their work was somewhat retarded by the setting in of heavy rains, accompanied by terrific thunderstorms and occasional heavy gales of wind.
At the very period when he was driven under by adverse gales, his young friend, who had gone into business about the same time, found himself under the necessity of employing a clerk. He offered Jones a salary of four hundred dollars, the most he believed himself yet justified in paying.
The newspaper he himself bought and continued, under the name of the "Sheffield Iris." Still retaining his affection for the family, he passed into the household of what was left of them, and supplied to the three sisters of the elder Joseph Gales the place of a brother, and, wifeless and childless, lived on to a very advanced age, content with their society alone.
We experienced at this time a succession of gales from the S.W., against which we, on several occasions, found it useless to contend: the waves on the river being heavy and short; and the boat, driving her prow into them, sent the spray over us and soon wet us through.
Just as the gales of tongues blow from the breast of the opinionative, so is it carried this way and that, driven forward and backward, and the light is overclouded to it, and the truth unseen. And to, it is before us.
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