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Them men as is called Barnegat pirates are not us fishermen never were: they're from the main colliers and sech as come down to a wrack, and they will have something to kerry home when they're kept up all night. They do their share of stealin', I'll confess; but from Sandy Hook to Cape May it's innocent to what is done on Long Island.
Why it is that, voyaging thus to the haven beneath the hill, I meet such adverse breezes, such headstrong currents, such wrack of wind and thwarting wave, I know not; nor what that other land will be like, if indeed I sail beyond the sunset; but that a home awaits me and all mankind I believe, of which this quiet house, so pleasantly ordered, among its old trees and dewy pastures, is but a faint sweet symbol.
Preserve O Lord, from stormes and wrack, Protect him there and bring him back; And if thou shall spare me a space, That I again may see his face, Then shall I celebrate thy Praise, And Blesse thee for't even all my Dayes. If otherwise I goe to Rest, Thy Will bee done, for that is best; Perswade my heart I shall him see Forever happefy'd with Thee.
Inside the palisade the ground swam like a loch, and from the hill-side came the rumour of a thousand swollen streams. That, with the heavy drip of laden branches, made sound enough, but after the thunder and the downpour it seemed silence itself. Presently when I looked up I saw that the black wrack was clearing from the sky, and through a gap there shone a watery star.
"O neighbour O Mr. Deans, it's a sair trial, doubtless but think of the Rock of Ages, neighbour think of the promise!" "And I do think of it, neighbours and I bless God that I can think of it, even in the wrack and ruin of a' that's nearest and dearest to me But to be the father of a castaway a profligate a bloody Zipporah a mere murderess!
Here the wrack was indescribable every hidingplace rifled, her pretty worked bedquilt lying across the doorway trampled and soiled, her dainty white clothing, some she had worn at Plassenburg, and even the tiny dresses of her childhood, all torn and confused together.
In her alarm she backed her horse, and pulled it across the road to bar his way. It was almost completely night by now; but from behind the wrack of clouds overhead a crescent moon sailed out to alleviate the darkness. "Come, now," she enjoined him. "Be reasonable. Do as I bid you. See, there is a carriage coming up behind you. Do not let us be found here together thus."
I'm sure they're nothing but a nuisance, but some one's got to prevent the place from going to wrack and ruin, and if they all leave it to me I can't very well refuse it, can I? Hey?" "No, dear." "You see what I mean?" "Yes, dear." Has any one worked harder for this place and the Cathedral than I have?" "No, dear." "Well, then.... There's this new fellow Ronder coming to-day.
It grew almost dark, so overcast was the sky, and under the somber, driving cloud wrack the white wave crests gleamed like savage teeth. Hiram crouched on the bottom of the boat, too terrified to speak, while Tubby and Merritt strove desperately to keep the little craft from "broaching to," in which case she would have shipped more water than would have been at all convenient, not to say safe.
"In cancer take the sea wrack Torrek Mendrek a weed of deep mauve colour streaked with white. When quite cold, a dessert-spoon of it should be taken by the sufferer every four hours and at the end of two days the disease will have completely disappeared. The wrack is to be found at the twenty fathom level, six miles west-south-west of the Scilly Isles.
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