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Learning from these sources that, not much more than thirty years ago in 1840, the first ship-load of British emigrants landed in New Zealand; that since then the colony had struggled for bare life against many and great difficulties; that it had had to wage several desperate wars with the aborigines; had had its financial and legislative troubles; and was still so very very young, we were naturally prepared to find Auckland a rude, rough, and inchoate settlement, pitched down in the midst of a wilderness as savage and uncouth as those shores we passed along yesterday.
Good-bye, now, says she; 'give my love to Hanna, and tell her 'she's worth a ship-load of her stately sister." "Poor Dora!" exclaimed Hanna, whilst the tears came to her eyes, "who can blame her for defending so good and affectionate a brother? Plague on it for an election! I wish there was no sich thing in the country."
A ship-load of them would not fetch you the value of this glass of wine at any market in the world." "Commerce is a grand thing," said George, with an air of conviction. "It is the proper work for men," said his uncle, proudly. "But I have always heard," replied the nephew, "that a man in this country has no right to look to commerce as a profession unless he possesses capital." Mr.
Whenever I carried a bag, I said to myself, 'Hurry up, now, with this bag of coal. A ship-load of coal, you know, is not worth enough to turn a man's head." "That was not a bad idea," said the captain. "But now the work is done, and we will soon get used to thinking of it without being excited about it.
He supplied ice to Charleston and New Orleans also, those cities at first requiring but a ship-load each per annum, although the demand increased so rapidly that a few years later New Orleans alone consumed thirty cargoes. Almost from the first, Mr.
"Nearly two years we've been together, mate, and it would be a pity if we smashed things now, when we've got a ship-load of gold. It's time we quit and took our comfort, and no more chances of getting a rope at the end of it. We've about played the game out, and we'd better not play a good thing too far or we'll find ourselves catching a crab one of these fine days.
Carter; "why, there's a ship-load of cat-o'-nine-tails goes out to Van Diemen's Land every quarter, and reserved specially for young females!" "Oh! I'll tell you all about it, sir," cried Mr. Vernon's housemaid; "sooner than be took up for perjuring, I'll tell you everything." "I thought so," said Mr. Carter; "but it isn't much you've got to tell me. Mr.
But then again, our best polemic divines I wish there was not a polemic divine, said Yorick, in the kingdom; one ounce of practical divinity is worth a painted ship-load of all their reverences have imported these fifty years. Pray, Mr. Yorick, quoth my uncle Toby, do tell me what a polemic divine is?
After a while, he proposed to remove them all to an island in the Sea of Marmora. No objection was offered, and a ship-load or so was taken away. But when it came to be known that somehow or other the dogs never got to the island, but always fell overboard in the night and perished, another howl was raised and the transportation scheme was dropped.
They prowled round the old silver mines, and sat on the great rocks at Port Gorey which had in those olden times served for a jetty, while he told them how Peter Le Pelley had mortgaged the island to further his quest after the silver, and how a whole ship-load of it sank within a stone's throw of the place where they sat, and with it the Seigneur's hopes and fortunes.
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