Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 7, 2025
No man knew the Thames-mouth channels better than our pilot, Kenulf the sea crafty, as we called him. Then it fell dead calm, quite suddenly, and we drifted, with the sail flapping against the mast idly, for half an hour or so.
I came later to know how fixed this night-reading habit had become, for in the Belgian relief years when we had frequently to cross the perilous North Sea together on our way from Thames-mouth to Holland or back in one of the little Dutch boats which used to run across twice a week until most of the boats had been blown up by floating mines, Hoover used always to fix an electric pocket lamp or a stub of a candle to the edge of his bunk and read for a while after turning in.
Godfrey could take nobly; but I never met a man who so nobly gave and so nobly received thanks as Shend did. 'Tell us why you have been so unbelievably kind to us gipsies, Mrs. Godfrey said to him one day on deck. He looked up from a diagram of some Thames-mouth shoals which he was explaining to me, and answered with his gentle smile: 'I will.
Well, I came to the Thames-mouth, and lay pretty well in among the Flats and Pan Sands towards eight one evening, not seven miles from Sheppey and the North Kent coast: and I did not see any Nore Light, nor Girdler Light: and all along the coast I had seen no light: but as to that I said not one word to myself, not admitting it, nor letting my heart know what my brain thought, nor my brain know what my heart surmised; but with a daft and mock-mistrustful under-look I would regard the darkling land, holding it a sentient thing that would be playing a prank upon a poor man like me.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking