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Updated: May 13, 2025
At a sign from Lieutenant Bowers, the eager sailormen parted in front of the airship, which, after a brief run, soared gracefully once more. Behind Lieutenant Bowers stood a sailor with a signal flag. "Step to the rear," Bowers directed, over his shoulder, "and wigwag back: 'O.K. Stopped only for assistant. Sign, 'Bowers. "Aye, aye, sir," answered the signalman.
Cooking except of the crudest kind was out of the question, and sleep would have been impossible to any but worn-out sailormen. Even then, they were often roused in the blackness of the night, when she lay with her lee rail under, and would not lift it out, to get another reef in, or crawl out on plunging bowsprit washed by icy seas to haul a burst jib down.
About this time Taffy began to carry out a scheme which he and his father had often discussed, but hitherto had found no leisure for the setting up of wooden crosses on the graves of the drowned sailormen. They had wished for slate, but good slate was expensive and hard to come by, and Taffy had no skill in stone-cutting. Since wood it must be, he resolved to put his best work into it.
"And for that reason," said he, carrying on his thought of a minute before, "we must weather the crisis like good sailormen." Brave words are one thing, and inflammation in a gunshot wound is another. Infection set up in Jerry Boyle's hurt on the day after that which the doctor had marked as the critical point in his battle for life. Dr.
Many of the patrons carried light baggage, since a P and O boat, an oriental, and the S. S. Mahratta, were sailing that night or in the early morning, and Dougal's was the favorite house of call for a doch-an-dorrich for sailormen, particularly for sailormen of color. Upon the police group became focussed the glances of light eyes and dark eyes, round eyes, almond-shaped eyes, and oblique eyes.
Several times Dave led his seamen against that barrier. Under repeated assaults it gave way. "Through the house and to the roof!" shouted Trent. "We'll wind up the snipers!" What a yell went up from two score of throats as the sailormen piled after their officers and thronged the stairs! It was a free-for-all race to the top of the second flight of stairs.
Them passuls of cat's meat that they call sailormen in these days has to be handled, well, the superintendent of a Sunday-school wouldn't be fit for the job, unless he had a little special trainin'." Louada Murilla, the point of her pencil at her lips, caught a vindictive gleam in his eyes. "But it seems awful cruel, some of the things that you you I suppose you had to do 'em, Aaron!
Still at that she could sail 'bout three feet to our one. Afore night come we wus out o' sight astern. Thar wus eight o' us in the crew, beside the nigger, an' we had twelve Dutchmen under hatches below. I sorter looked 'round, an' sized up four o' that crew ter be good honest sailormen, who'd been shanghied same as I wus.
He had almost given up the search, and concluded with several English scientists that this orang-utan was a part of that great fabric of pseudo-science invented by imaginative sailormen, who took most of their inland little journeys around the capstan.
"There are two kinds of men, as I take it, William, to do the fightin' in this world, sailormen and soldiermen; each has a place, a station to fill, and something to do, and one can't do t' other's work.
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