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Among them were suffragists, answering the taunt of the other sex, showing that in war as well as in peace the world needed them; it had to find a place for them on board the most badly crowded transport. Never having been on an ocean-liner before, Jimmie did not know that it was crowded; it did not trouble him that there was hardly room for a walk on the decks.
The cut was a natural stronghold, opening sidewise on the face of the shore, so as to be invisible from the open water. It was deep enough for an ocean-liner, but too narrow for a big steamer to enter with her own power. Bedient turned into the thick, thorny undergrowth, which lined the eastern wall of the Inlet, and made his way around its devious curvings, silently and slowly.
The captain's Chinese boy glided up unobserved and stood at attention. "Captain say missy please come top-side right away. Wantchee see Bird Island." Percival, still holding her hand, smilingly shook his head. "Damn Bird Island!" he murmured softly. Of all the places in the world where a flirtation can germinate, blossom, and bear fruit overnight, an ocean-liner is the most propitious.
Sometimes Tweel would show us through a hall that would have housed an ocean-liner, and he'd seem to swell with pride and we couldn't make a damn thing of it! As a display of architectural power, the city was colossal; as anything else it was just nutty! "But we did see one thing that registered. We came to that same building Leroy and I had entered earlier the one with the three eyes in it.
A paddle-wheel ocean-liner The hens, the cow, and the carpenter W. D. Ticknor Our first Englishman An aristocratic acrobat Speech that beggars eulogy The boots of great travellers Complimentary cannon The last infirmity of noble republican minds The golden promise: the spiritual fulfilment Fatuous serenity Past and future The coquetry of chalk cliffs Two kinds of imagination The thirsty island Gloomy English comforts Systematic geniality A standing puzzle The respirator Scamps, fools, mendicants, and desperadoes The wrongs of sailor-men "Is this myself?"
These steamers deserve the name of floating hotel or palace much more than even the finest ocean-liner, because to their sumptuous appointments they add the fact that they are, except under very occasional circumstances, floating palaces and not reeling or tossing ones.
A troop-ship has no longer a name, but although the ship we boarded at Port Melbourne docks was designated by the number A 14, it was not hard to discover that we were on a well-known ocean-liner, for on life-buoys and wheelhouse the paint was not so thick that inquisitiveness could not see the name that in pre-war days the Aberdeen line proudly advertised as one of their most comfortable passenger-carrying ships.
Jimmie helped to get his friend the "wobbly", and passed him on to be lowered with a rope. By that time the deck had got such a slant that it was hard to walk on it; the bow was settling, and the stern rearing up in the air. Never could you have realized the size of an ocean-liner, until you saw it rear itself up like a monstrous mountain, preparatory to plunging beneath the waves!
And, among all the rose and gold and white, the ocean-liner, a glittering immensity of helpless strength, was being hauled and butted into her dock, like some harpooned sea-monster, by a swarm of blunt-nosed, agile little tugs. Jack Pennington thought that he had never seen Imogen looking so "wonderful" as on this morning. The occasion, to him, was brimming over with significance.
In great excitement she rushed to the bridge to find the captain, but he was not there. Five interminable minutes had been lost before she found him and stated her case. The captain of an ocean-liner is too used to false alarms to be easily excited, and it was only after another thorough search was made, and no trace of Bobby and the Englishman found, that Captain Boynton concerned himself.
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