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"Confound the luck of it, this is some convoy or other, but we must try if we can pick some of them out." "Haul down the studding-sails! Luff! bring her to the wind! Let us see what we can make of them." O, for the Hector, the Albion, and a frigate, and we should take the whole fleet and convoy, worth some millions!
Luff, as I remember, was put in the Inquisition, and Perrot in their Bedlam, or hospital for madmen.
"Do him power ob good. Drive de fit right away from him," answered Quin, as he remorselessly dashed another bucket of cold water upon the patient. "Dat's wat dey call de water-cure." "Go away dar!" screamed Cyd. "Luff dis chile lone." "Don't, Quin; he does not like it," said Lily. "'Pose he don't; nobody likes de medicine." "But you may kill him," added Dan. "Kill him!
"Do you see the sloop, sir?" I hailed. "No," returned Smellie from his post at the wheel, stooping and peering straight into the darkness. "I cannot make her out from here. Do you see her?" "Yes, sir," I replied joyously; "there she is, broad on our port bow. Luff, sir, you may." "Luff," I heard Smellie return; and the schooner's bows swept round until they pointed fair for the distant object.
The man at the helm was watching the luff of the sail and whistling away gently to himself, and that was the only sound excepting the swish of the sea against the bows and around the sides of the ship.
Now there is rationality in giving a fresh nip to a rope, or in looking well at your mats, or even in crowning a cable; but damme, priest, if I see the use luff, luff, you lubber; don't ye see, sir, you are steering for Garmany!
It had never taken me like that before; but the want of her took and shook all through me, like the wind in the luff of a sail. I could not speak if I had wanted; and if I could, I would not. I was ashamed to be so much moved about a native, ashamed of the marriage too, and the certificate she had treasured in her kilt; and I turned aside and made believe to rummage among my cases.
If it ceases, the sail is unnecessarily full, and you are not keeping a good `luff, and you must turn the wheel a shade to the right; if it increases, you are sailing rather too near the wind, and must press the wheel a trifle to the left. Do you understand me?"
Luff to a hair, boy; luff her short into the wind, and try a half-board." The man at the helm obeyed the order. Releasing his hold of its spokes, the wheel made a quick evolution; and the ship, feeling a fresh impulse of the wind, turned her head heavily towards the quarter whence it came, the canvas fluttering with a noise like that produced by a flock of water-fowl just taking wing.
They were, says Mr Stephen, and the end was that the men of the island seeing no help was toward, as the ungrate women were all of one mind, made a wherry raft, loaded themselves and their bundles of chattels on shipboard, set all masts erect, manned the yards, sprang their luff, heaved to, spread three sheets in the wind, put her head between wind and water, weighed anchor, ported her helm, ran up the jolly Roger, gave three times three, let the bullgine run, pushed off in their bumboat and put to sea to recover the main of America.
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