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It's in the course from Honolulu." "Deuce it is!" cried Carthew. "That settles it, then. Let's stay. We must keep good fires going; and there's plenty wreck." "Lashings of wreck!" said the Irishman. "There's nothing here but wreck and coffin boards." "But we'll have to make a proper blyze," objected Hemstead. "You can't see a fire like this, not any wye awye, I mean." "Can't you?" said Carthew.
Should you wish to continue on the sea, you shall have the Belle of the Wye, launched last year. 'Tis time Captain Elliott took to his pension." The captain sighed, and a gleam I did not understand came into his dark eyes. "I would that God had given me your character and your heart, Richard," he said, "in place of this striving thing I have within me.
Pilsdon is much more imposing than some of the "lumps" that are double its altitude on the table-land of central Wales, where the bed of the Upper Wye is not many feet below the height of the "Pen." That, by the way, is a Celtic suffix; it would be interesting to know if the word has continued in constant use since British times.
The three words she dragged out were so faint that perhaps none but Dart's strained ears heard them. "Wot price ME?" The soul of her was loosening fast and straining away, but Jinny Montaubyn followed it. "THERE IS NO DEATH," and her low voice had the tone of a slender silver trumpet. "In a minit yer 'll know in a minit. Lord," lifting her expectant face, "show her the wye."
The motto of the time-worn arms inscribed over the entrance speaks eloquently of the past, expressing in Latin the sentiment, "I scorn to change or fear." A quiet, unpretentious old border town is Hereford, pleasantly located on the banks of the always beautiful Wye. The square tower of the cathedral is the most conspicuous object when the town first comes into view.
With the extinction of the old line of the Earls of Chester and the grant of the earldom to Prince Edward , a new era opened for Wales. Further south, in the Middle March, along the upper valleys of the Severn and the Wye, the great power of the Mortimers was growing. They had already stretched out a long arm to grasp Gwerthrynion.
On the rivers Severn and Wye there was plying in 1806 a flotilla of ninety-eight trows, ranging in capacity from sixty to one hundred and thirty tons, and employing five hundred and eighty-eight men, of whom practically all enjoyed exemption from the press. It being a time of exceptional stress for men, the Admiralty considered this proportion excessive, and Capt.
Having inherited his plantation on Wye Island, near Carvel Hall, he resigned his duties as judge, and a lucrative practice, to turn all his energies to the cultivation of the soil. His wheat was as eagerly sought after as was Colonel Washington's tobacco. It was to Mr. Bordley's counsel that the greater part of my success was due.
"It's the wye they talk in books," said Dickie, suddenly returning to the language of his aunt. "You bein' a toff I thought you'd unnerstand. My mistike. No 'fense." "Mean to say you can talk like a book when you like, and cut it off short like that?"
"And look " Fairchild was beside him now, with his carbide "how everything's torn, as though from an explosion." "It seems that wye. But you can't tell. Rock 'as an awful way of churning up things when it decides to turn loose. All I know is we 've got a job cut out for us." There was only one thing to do, turn back.
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