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Before she got to them she was caught between two huge barges and received a vigorous crushing. We got her on the ways, and, part way along, the ways spread and dropped her through, stern-first, into the mud. It was a pretty tangle, a job for wreckers, not boat-builders.
"Tempting, but such profanity in the face of Vale Leston was forbidden, and so was the comic element, as bad for the teetotallers." "But who were the wreckers?" asked Anna. "Buccaneers, my dear, singing songs out of the 'Pirate'- schoolmaster, organist, and choir generally. They get wrecked on the island, and are terrified by the elves into releasing Alonso, etc.
"I mean that the stout schooner I sailed in would be in a safe harbour now instead of drifting as spindle-wood among those skerries if there were no wreckers on your islands, my lad!" "There must be some mistake. Do tell me what happened," was all Yaspard could say. And then he heard the story.
Over and over again men made their pistols click, and were ready in their rage to send bullets flying amongst the wreckers of their homes; but my father uttered a low warning. "Stand fast. Not till I say fire. Never mind your homes, my lads, we'll soon raise better ones, and your wives and children are all safe. Wait."
It was a shrill cry from the direction of the creek-bed, and turning, all three saw a round-shouldered figure on horseback scrambling from the creek-bottom, leading the ponies of the two would-be wreckers, and the second cowman running toward him. "It's Little Hawk!" Alex exclaimed.
Darling remained in the shelter of the rock until the faintest whisper of their voices had died away before moving hand or foot. "Organized wreckers," he muttered. "And that big pirate with the lantern was the skipper the brute who is keeping Flora in this place! By God I wonder just how much of a man, and how much of a beast he is!
Of all the crew, though, Madge and her husband were the very worst. Most of them did abide by the old saying, 'Honour amongst wreckers, but not those two. If they could cheat or trick even their friends they would do so; and did, too, very often. One particularly stormy day, Madge Figgy sat in her great chair in high glee.
"After all," said Cherie, "the desert island full of savages and wreckers is not more remarkable than the 'still-vex'd Bermoothes' getting between Argiers and Sicily." "It really was one of the Outer Hebrides," said Gerald, with the eagerness that belonged to authorship, "so that there could be any amount of Scottish songs.
The peep of dawn discovered them swinging in desperate proximity to the Isle of Swona and the surf bursting close under their stern. There was in this place a hamlet of the inhabitants, fisher-folk and wreckers; their huts stood close about the head of the beach.
Bartholomew's friends and relatives appealed to Sir Francis Vere for justice, but were calmly informed by that general that Ostend was like a stranded ship, on its beamends on a beach, and that it was impossible not to consider it at the mercy of the wreckers.
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