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What a feeling of loneliness, almost of despair, infects the landsman's mind, as he recedes from an unfamiliar port sees crowds watching listlessly his vessel's departure crowds, of whom not one feels an interest in his fate; and then, turning to the little world within, beholds but faces he knows not, persons he wots not of!
Then David nudged Jack, and waked him. "Speak low now, Jack." "What is it, sir?" "Land ahead." Jack looked out, and there was a mountain of jet rising out of the sea, and, to a landsman's eye, within a stone's throw of them. "Is it the French coast, sir? I must have been asleep." "French coast? no, Channel Island smallest of the lot." "Better give it a wide berth, sir.
The pure light-green waves were crested with foam, which curled over and over, and never stopped rolling. The deck lay over at a dreadful slant to a landsman's eye; indeed, notwithstanding holding on to everything I could catch, I fell four times during the morning. With difficulty I reached the saloon, where the passengers had assembled for breakfast.
It was open and, what was better, it opened inward. Also, it was of steel with a stout brass ring on the lock, this ring taking the place of what on a landsman's door would have been a knob. Terence Reardon and Michael J. Murphy listened. From within came a medley of gentle sighs, snores and the slow, regular breathing of sleeping men. Softly Mr.
The kind of vessel they used in the tenth century is the craft of most peculiar interest to Canadian history, though it has never been noticed there except by the merest landsman's reference. The special type to which this vessel belonged was already the result of long development. The Vikings had a way of burying a chief in his ship, over which they heaped a funeral mound.
After a quarter of an hour of violent exertion, I did not appear to be much nearer to her; but, observing her more closely, I could see, even with my landsman's eyes, that something was the matter with her. Portions of her mast and rigging were gone, and one large sail at her stern appeared to be fluttering in the wind. But it mattered not to me what had happened to her.
Time is a panacea for every ill; and after the lapse of ten or twelve days, as the brig was drawing towards the latitude of Bermuda, my sickness disappeared as suddenly as it commenced; and one pleasant morning I threw aside my shore dress, and with it my landsman's habits and feelings. I donned my short jacket and trousers, and felt every inch a sailor!
The voyage The "Dolphin" and her crew Ice ahead Polar scenes Masthead observations The first whale Great excitement. And now we have fairly got into blue water the sailor's delight, the landsman's dread, "The sea! the sea! the open sea; The blue, the fresh, the ever free."
The sea as well as the wind had decreased. Now the sails were taken in one by one. "Stand by with the anchor," cried the captain. "Let go!" A plunge was heard, and the hempen cable flew quickly out. The vessel rode head to wind with her stern to the shore, not perceived by any but the seamen, so hardly could a landsman's eye pierce the thick gloom around.
I recollect how painfully awkward and out-of-place it looked there, cramped between ruled black edges and smelling of landsman's ink this thing that had to do essentially with air and vast colored spaces.
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