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'And the gun of our nation's natal day At the rise and set of sun, Shall boom from the far north-east away To the vales of Oregon. And ships on the seashore luff and tack, And send the peal of triumph back." Mr Stanton, a Democratic representative from the slave state of Tennessee Polk's own observes, that war about Oregon
"Luff now, all you can, quarter-master," cried the captain. "Send the men aft directly. My lads, there is no time for words I am going to club-haul the ship, for there is no room to wear. The only chance you have of safety is to be cool, watch my eye, and execute my orders with precision. Away to your stations for tacking ship. Hands by the best bower anchor.
"I'd have kept to weather of the bark, where we'd have had room to luff, if I'd expected that burst of wind," he explained. "Did you hurt yourself against the coaming, Mrs. Nairn?" The lady smiled reassuringly. "It's no worth mentioning, and I'm no altogether unused to it. Alic once kept a boat and would have me out with him."
We had scarcely gone a quarter of a mile before a noble crane came sailing across our course with his head tucked in between his shoulders, his long stilt-like legs projecting astern of him, and his slowly- flapping wings almost touching the water at every stroke. "There's a chance for you, Hawkesley," exclaimed our genial second luff; "let drive at him.
Wilder followed the boat with his eyes, for a moment; but his thoughts were recalled by the voice of the pilot, who again called, from the forward part of the ship, "Let the light sails lift a little, boy; let her lift keep every inch you can, or you'll not weather the slaver. Luff, I say, sir; luff."
A prairie schooner. A long canvas-covered wagon used especially by emigrants crossing the prairies. Skimmer-bugs. Bugs that skip or glide over the surface of the water. Luff. To turn the head of a vessel towards the wind. Hard-a-port is a direction given to the helmsman, meaning to put the helm quickly to the port or left side.
The discovery of the presence of the English ship did not appear to have caused any uneasiness to her commander, for he did not deviate a hairbreadth from his course, but stood on, maintaining his luff, the only indication that he had observed the Adventure at all being the display of the yellow flag of Spain, which he had hoisted to the head of his ensign staff within five minutes of the time when he cleared the island.
I will luff up a little more, and we shall pass ahead of them however hard they paddle." So saying he sat down, hauled in the sheet and headed nearer to the wind. "The fellows behind won't see them for some time," he said. "The canoes must be four miles away at least, and I don't suppose they could see each other more than half that distance, being so low in the water.
At this, I turned and sang out to the bo'sun that we were near to running upon the weed, and, in the same moment, he shouted to the helmsman to luff, and directly afterwards our starboard side was brushing against the great outlying tufts of the point, and so, for a breathless minute, we waited.
"But don't be letting me prevent you from keeping a look-out, Mr Simple. You Hoskins, you're half a point off the wind. Luff you may. I think, Mr Simple, that Captain O'Brien didn't pick out the best man, when he made Tom Alsop a quarter-master in my place." "Why, he is a very steady, good man, Swinburne." "Yes, so he is; but he has natural defects, which shouldn't be overlooked."
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