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The result was fatal and instantaneous. When the ship rose on the next wave, the boat was lifted by the bow out of the water until she hung from the davits, and a terrible cry was uttered as all the men were thrown out of her into the sea. Next moment the boat was plunged into the waves, the tackle snapt, and she was swept away. "Lower away the long-boat!" shouted the captain.
The wind becoming more violent, the rope, by which we kept the skin-boat in tow, suddenly snapt, and set her adrift. She was frequently hid from our view by the height of the waves, but we were in no apprehension about her, as these kind of boats are much safer in a high sea, than a European one.
Miss B. would never have committed herself as that imprudent Amelia had done; pledged her love irretrievably; confessed her heart away, and got back nothing only a brittle promise which was snapt and worthless in a moment. A long engagement is a partnership which one party is free to keep or to break, but which involves all the capital of the other.
At noon I to the 'Change, and there hear by Mr. Hublon of the loss of a little East Indiaman, valued at about L20,000, coming home alone, and safe to within ten leagues of Scilly, and there snapt by a French Caper.
There was only one point where he could get a hold on the hillside the jutting bole of a tree just beneath them, and beneath the dyke of rock and trees. It was a great moment. The current swayed him out, but he plunged forward, catching at the bole. His hand seized a small branch. It held him an instant, as he was swung round, then it snapt.
We pass'd down Lake Huron yesterday and last night, and between 4 and 5 o'clock this morning we ran on the "flats," and have been vainly trying, with the aid of a steam tug and a lumbering lighter, to get clear again. The day is beautiful and the water clear and calm. We expect to get to Buffalo by to-morrow. The tug has fasten'd lines to us, but some have been snapt and the others have no effect.
The travellers had only eaten one handful of meal each during the day's journey, exposed to the ardour of a tropical sun. The slaves were much fatigued, and showed great discontent; several snapt their fingers, a certain mark of desperation. They were all immediately put in irons, and those who had shown signs of despondency were kept apart.
Then again as I praised his lovely taper fingers they were more like bunches of frosted carrots, dipped in a tar bucket, with the tails snapt short off, where about an inch thick. "My taper fingers oh lord! Now, Peter, I can't stomach this any longer, I'll give you my grog for the next two days, if you will take my spell here My taper fingers murder!"
If he torture Mar, you will torture me." "Mademoiselle," the king cried, "rather shall he torture every chevalier in France than I touch a hair of your head!" "Sire " the word died away in a sigh; like a snapt rose she fell at his feet. The king was quick, but Monsieur quicker. On his knees beside her, raising her head on his arm, he commanded me: "Up-stairs, Félix!
He may expect ha, ha, ha! You don't know that lad as I do. Then there came a second cigar, and some little time in lighting, and full twenty enjoyable puffs before he resumed. 'Now, you're a moral man, Charlie, tell me really what you think of a fellow marrying a girl he does not care that for, and he snapt his fingers.
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