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He was cut in two by a cannon-shot while in the act of ramming home a cartridge in the bow-gun of the Jolly Bachelor. Standing close to poor Ellis at the fatal moment was a fine promising young middy, Charles Johnson, a nephew of Mr. Brooke's, who fortunately escaped unhurt. This, and two others badly wounded, were the only accidents on our side.
That's where the drinking habit comes in they can't help it they must drink. It ain't the love of the liquor, as teetotalers and those kind of goody people always are ramming down your throat it's the love of nothing. But it's the fear of their own thoughts the dreadful misery the anxiety about what's to come, that's always hanging like a black cloud over their heads.
Apropos, my dear Burke; talk of heroism and self-devotion as you will, but show me anything to compare with the gallantry of those fellows we saw to-day on the Quai Voltaire, a set of grocers, periwig-makers, umbrella and sausage men, with portly paunches and spectacles, ramming down charges, sponging, loading, and firing real cannon. On my word of honor, it was fearful."
As he finished, Captain Charlie pushed his chair back from the table and, finding his pipe, proceeded to fill it with the grim determination of an old-time minuteman ramming home a charge in his Bunker Hill musket. Later the two men went out to enjoy their pipes on the lawn in the cool of the evening.
Henderson as he jumped for the conning tower. The shock was repeated. "What was it?" asked someone. "Shut down the engine!" yelled the inventor to the colored man. "What do you want to go on ramming an object after you've once hit it? Slow down the engine!" "Power's shut off!" cried Washington. "We didn't hit nothin'! Something hit us!" "What do you mean?" asked Mr. Henderson.
The coal was easy to get; he had one boy "forrit to the pick," with Robert as "drawer," and his prospects seemed good, he thought, as he was busily preparing a shot, ramming in the powder, and "stemming" up the hole.
"That is his death-whoop," said Du Lhut composedly. "It was a pity to fire, and yet it was better than letting him go." As he spoke the two others came back, Ephraim ramming a fresh charge into his musket. "Who was laughing?" asked Amos.
Adeimantus was charging. Their ships and all the rest went racing to meet the foe. But the Nausicaä had paid for her victory. In the shock of ramming the triple-toothed beak on her prow had been wrenched away. In the mêlée of ships which had just begun, she must play her part robbed of her keenest weapon.
From this it follows that the opportunity of ramming a submersible, or of sinking it by gunfire, is greatly minimized, since the vessel can disappear so rapidly. A great deal has been attempted with nets. Fixed nets extend across many of the bodies of water around the British Isles. Their positions, doubtless, are now very well known to the Germans.
The remainder of the crew had passed through the forest to the captured steamer below, embarked, and made off down river. A shot from De Russy had cut a steam pipe and the tiller rope, but in other respects the Queen was not materially injured. She was an ordinary river steamer, with her bow strengthened for ramming.
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