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"Do you know, Plimsoll is one of the most gifted" he was holding a match to his pipe as he spoke "gifted young artists in the country and two days ago he was literally hungry " David took his pipe from his mouth and looked at Peter to see the effect of his words. "It's very sad, very" Peter Knott's tone was sympathetic "but after all, they're young; they could enlist, couldn't they?"
Why, she's the most scand'lous case as has gone out of harbour these three months!" "Eh?" "I saw her with my own eyes alongside No. 3 jetty, the evenin' before she sailed. A calm night it was too; and she with her Plimsoll well under and a whole line o' trucks waitin' to be shot into her. She went out before daybreak, if you remember, and God knows how low she was by that time."
Nearly cried over them he did; and he had a square mainsail coat, and a gaff-topsail hat too all proper. So they chaps they said they wouldn't go to be drownded in winter depending upon that 'ere Plimsoll man to see 'em through the court. They thought to have a bloomin' lark and two or three days' spree. And the beak giv' 'em six weeks coss the ship warn't overloaded.
"That's by Plimsoll a silver point isn't it a beautiful thing?" "Delightful," replied Peter. "Well, do you know Knott that " David's pipe had gone out. He moved slowly towards his chair and began looking for the matches.
The loans were given to girls who had "not a sixpence," but never failed to find some other poor to go bail for them. Several more facts in point in Ch. Samuel Plimsoll, Our Seamen, cheap edition, London, 1870, p. 110. Our Seamen, u.s., p. 110. Mr.
It was what the magistrate had said to me on the occasion when I stood in the dock as Eustace Plimsoll, of The Laburnums: and as it had impressed me a good deal at the time, I just bunged it in now by way of giving the conversation a tone. "All right. Never mind about being careful, then. Just answer me that question.
Plimsoll, after he had lived for some time among the poor, on 7s. 6d. a week, was compelled to recognize that the kindly feelings he took with him when he began this life "changed into hearty respect and admiration" when he saw how the relations between the poor are permeated with mutual aid and support, and learned the simple ways in which that support is given.
To-day all civilized governments join in devices and expedients for the protection and safeguard of the mariner. Steel vessels are made unsinkable with water-tight compartments, and officially marked with a Plimsoll load line beneath which they must not be submerged. Charts of every ocean are prepared under governmental supervision by trained scientists.
Second Mate," he said, "I don't see the Plimsoll Mark on the funnel. Do you?" "No, captain. I expect it has been washed off." "If I was you I'd write to the Board of Trade about it." "Best let sleeping dogs lie, captain." "Why?" "Because they might look for yours, and as it ought to be round your neck they would say you were unseaworthy." "So you know what it is, you long swab?" "Yes.
Plimsoll could be compelled to apologise for hasty words spoken in a moment of passion. It is strange that neither the Prussian nor the German Parliament consented to adopt rules which are really the necessary complement for the privileges of Parliament.
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