Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 23, 2025
We will stand on as we are going, however, and cross her stern; we shall then perhaps get a chance to make out her name. Somehow, she has a familiar look with her, as though I had seen her before; I wonder if she was in the fleet?" "Like enough, sir," answered Bowen; "we're right in the track of 'em; and maybe this is one of the slow-coaches as we run away from."
Few possess it. There are plenty of lazy people and plenty of slow-coaches, but a genuine idler is a rarity. He is not a man who slouches about with his hands in his pockets. On the contrary, his most startling characteristic is that he is always intensely busy. It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
A couple of old slow-coaches, that rattle at every move they make, and your friend the old raven-mother, Frau Kummerfelden, whose rough paws would kill anything at all delicate." "Now, now," said Frau Kummerfelden, "you mustn't say anything about the raven-mother she's a splendid old soul."
"Hullo, what sport!" he exclaimed. "Andy's given us the slip!" "Be joyful! Let's race for the best boxes!" said Armitage. "We shall be in the water long before the other slow-coaches have reached the baths. One, two, three off!" Now Toppin was one of the group behind, and being naturally fleet of foot, a race was a thing he could not resist. So he took to his heels and pursued them.
The Tremendous and Torpid, under double-reefed topsails, led the way about two miles apart; the frigates were posted, one to windward and one to leeward of the merchant-fleet, and the brigs brought up the rear, it being their duty to whip-in the stragglers, urge on the slow-coaches, and keep a sharp lookout for prowling privateers.
It's only some of your wise governments who don't care about the slavers being caught who send out slow-coaches, which are fit for nothing but carrying timber." "Then why should she be in such a hurry?" I observed. "A sail right ahead!" sang out the man at the mast-head. "Because she's in chase of something else," remarked the captain, laughing. "Hand me the glass. I thought so.
And I am not the only one either! Bless you, next to all the old stage-coaches of France have been packed off like me. We were regarded as too much the conservative 'the slow-coaches' d'ye see, and now we are here leading the life of a dog. This is what you in France call the Algerian railways." Here the ancient vehicle heaved a long-drawn sigh before proceeding. "My wheels and linchpin!
What she did if she happened to encounter a French cruiser I did not learn; apparently such an accident had not yet happened, she being a remarkably fast sailer while the French cruisers were notoriously slow-coaches. This was a most valuable piece of information for me to get hold of, and I carefully laid it away in the storehouse of my memory for use when occasion should serve.
'Up and Doing'! No slow-coaches about the Upedes. We're all alive and wide awake." "I hope we will get in with a lively set of girls," said Helen, with a sigh. "It will be your own fault if you don't," said Mary Cox. Oddly enough, she did not show any desire to urge the newcomers to join the Upedes. Helen was quite piqued by this.
She looked with bright decision at her companion, who smiled a little awkwardly, and said nothing. The old long habit of considering the Wellin interest first, before any other in the world, held him still, though he was no longer their servant. Miss Henderson moved back towards the house. "And you'll hurry these men up? as much as you can? They are slow-coaches! I must get in the week after next.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking