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Between them and it raged a mile of breakers throwing up their spiky foaming crests, while their regular lines of advance were every now and then crossed by a galloping breaking billow coming mysteriously and yet furiously from another direction altogether, the result being a collision of waters and pillars and spouts of foam shot up into the air.
"Well, I must quit," ejaculated the doctor suddenly. We went out and made for the village road again. A screaming swish, and a report that hurt the ears and shattered the windows in the front of the cottage. A Boche high-velocity shell had crashed a few yards away on the other side of the stream, and thrown up spouts of black slimy mud.
But now another battery came up on our right, and the two, by accurate and steady shooting, gradually wore down the opposition; one by one the red flashes disappeared and the spouts of earth diminished in number. Finally there was a lull; the Turks had had enough for the time being.
Denham was the commander of the Chloe, which ship, a neat six-and-thirty, was pitching into the heavy seas that now came rolling in heavily from the broad Atlantic, the water streaming from her hawse-holes, as she rose from each plunge, like the spouts of a whale.
"Yes, that's our term," replied Ben; "and now to my story. We were down off the coast of Japan; when, about one hour after daybreak, the man looking out at the masthead gave the usual word when he sees a whale blowing `There she spouts. And this he repeats every time the fish rises. We had a clean hold at the time, for we had but just come to our fishing-ground, and we were mighty eager.
He spouts at the 'Ciceronian, for half a crown a night, and to this day subscribes sixpence a week to the cause of 'liberty and enlightenment all over the world." "By Heaven!" cried Dartmore, "he is a fine fellow, and my father shall do something for him." Gordon pricked up his ears, and continued, "Now, for the second person, gentlemen, whom I am about to describe to you.
In that tazza four Dolphins, with their heads down and their tails raised on high, forming a base, support a ball, from the centre of which, through four heads, there issues water that spouts upwards, and so also from the Dolphins, upon which are mounted four naked little boys.
"Now, dear Hugh, will you make me those little spouts for the trees? of some dry wood : you can get plenty out here. You want to split them, up with a hollow chisel, about a quarter of an inch thick, and a little more than half an inch broad. Have you got a hollow chisel?" "No, but I can get one up the hill. Why must it be hollow?" "To make little spouts, you know, for the sap to run in.
His ribs, his fins, his whalebone, his blubber, the very spiracles through which he spouts a torrent of brine against his origin, and covers me all over with the spray, everything of him and about him is from the throne. Is it for him to question the dispensation of the royal favor?
Symes, says he, 'it's a-bloawin' right smart peart, an' I don't see fitten for to lower. "I went for'ard. The lookaout he hailed again. 'On deck, sir, says he, 'thar she blaows, an' spouts, an' breaches, an' it's a right smart sperm, too. "I went aft. 'Cap'n Symes, says I, 'thar she bloaws, an' spouts, an' breaches, an' its a right smart sperm-whale, too. Shall I lower?
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