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Why this biggest of all beasts, this creature that looms above you like a crustaceous dinosaur to use long words without squinting too closely on their meaning why this behemoth with the swishing trunk, should eat peanuts, contemptible peanuts, lies so deep in nature that the mind turns dizzy. It is small stuff to feed valor on a penny's worth of food in such a mighty hulk.
Moreover, he was not using full steam; to let her go would swamp the boat and wash the men off the laboring hulk. Lister knew the rope held because he felt the heavy drag. Although she rolled and plunged, there was no life in Terrier's movements. She was sluggish, embarrassed by the load she hauled. Lister thought about the men on board the hulk.
The look which David saw in her face was infinitely tender. She was smiling at the misshapen hulk in the door as she might have smiled at a little child. And David, looking back at the wide, deep-set eyes of the man, saw the slumbering fire of a dog-like worship in them. They shifted slowly, taking in the cabin, questing, seeking, searching for something which they could not find.
Said Captain Johnston, in the same vein: "If it had not been for that d d black hulk hanging on our stern we would have got along well enough; she did us more damage than all the rest of the Federal fleet."
Or, had a whale come bearing down from upper waters, as they sometimes do, there would have been a disturbance first, made by the spouting and slashing that our instinct at once would have told us came from some monster of the deep. Or, again, had it been the hulk of a vessel that could not stand some violent storm, oh, yes, we should have known what that was, too.
A temporary stair under flags ran right up to a ledge above the waterline: from which ledge little steel steps led here and there to the roof; round the edge of roof and ledge running two balustrades, surrounding the hulk; and over that upper portion, four times repeated in white letters ten feet high, the name BOODAH boomed itself.
Stede Bonnet, late gentleman of the island of Barbadoes, honorably discharged as major from the army of his Majesty, since turned sea-rover for no apparent cause, and now one of the most notorious plunderers of the coast, faced his last fight. Outnumbered nearly ten to one, his ship a stranded hulk, his cannon useless, surely he read his doom.
Reaching the quarter-deck, upon his knees he implored the captain to return. "Think, if it were your father, brother, or a son, in that hopeless condition, would you not render them all the assistance in your power?" "I have three brothers and a father upon the ocean," vociferated the demon; "for aught I know it may be one of them! but were they all aboard that hulk yonder, I would not return!
Here, though they had to clamber over hillocks and steep rocks, they got along quicker. Suddenly Bok, who was in front, uttered a shout. On the others hastening up they saw the cause of his astonishment. Beached in a little bay, with her topmasts gone and the hulk lying over on the port side, was a brig.
'I knew we shouldn't be drowned! said Avice hysterically. 'I thought we shouldn't too, said he. With the appearance of day a boat put off to their assistance, and they were towed towards the heavy red hulk with the large white letters on its side. The October day thickened into dusk, and Jocelyn sat musing beside the corpse of Mrs. Pierston.
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