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On rounding the reef, on which a quantity of heavy ice was lying aground, we found that a continuous floe, four or five inches in thickness, was formed over the whole harbour, which in every other respect appeared to be fit for our purpose; and that it would be necessary to cut a canal of two miles in length through the ice, in order to get the ships into a secure situation for the winter.
"When do you expect him?" "I don't expect him. I never expect him. He may be home in five minutes, in five days, or five weeks." "At what time this morning did he go?" "He left the house at five minutes after four this morning, the last that ever was. I looked at my watch when he went out at the gate; for I was thinking whether or no his boat wasn't aground.
When Winn Caspar turned into his comfortable bunk aboard the raft on the night of the storm, it never once occurred to him that the Venture might float before morning. She never had floated, and she seemed so hard and fast aground that he imagined a rise of several feet of water would be necessary to move her.
If you undertake it 'twill be at your own risk, for I'll neither ask quarter of you nor give none." "Very well," said the lieutenant, "if you choose to try that, you may do as you please; for I'm coming aboard of you as sure as heaven." "Push off the bow there!" called the boatswain at the wheel. "Look alive! Why don't you push off the bow?" "She's hard aground!" answered the gunner.
I would not have condescended to have noticed this place, had it not been that I wish you to observe a vessel which is lying along the pier-wharf, with a plank from the shore to her gunwale. It is low water, and she is aground, and the plank dips down at such an angle that it is a work of danger to go either in or out of her. You observe that there is nothing very remarkable in her.
Then Erik, bidding his men await him patiently went to tell Frode the tidings of the defeat he had inflicted. As he sailed along he happened to see a pirate ship aground on some shallows; and being wont to utter weighty words upon chance occurrences, he said, "Obscure is the lot of the base-born, and mean is the fortune of the lowly."
Thirdly, the dreadful deserts in the way; and lastly, the approaching rainy season, in which the streams of the Nile would be so furious, and rise so high spreading far and wide over all the plain country that we should never be able to know when we were in the channel of the river and when not, and should certainly be cast away, overset, or run aground so often that it would be impossible to proceed by a river so excessively dangerous.
I most earnestly beg, my dear General, that you will favor me with an immediate answer. With the highest respect and most tender affection, I have the honor to be, your's, &c. P.S. One of our transports from Trenton had got aground, but the troops of her will still be in time for her at the head of Elk.
Then God sent a wind to blow over the waters, and to dry them up; so by degrees the waters grew less and less. First mountains rose above the waters, then the hills rose up, and finally the ark ceased to float and lay aground on a mountain which is called Mount Ararat. But Noah could not see what had happened on the earth, because the door was shut, and the only window was up in the roof.
Reuben almost ran over me as he came bounding up the stairs. "Hold on, old fellow," I whispered, and I pulled him down beside me. "Can you keep a secret? I'm played out Reuben to speak elegantly and I don't wish a soul to know it. I'm sitting very comfortably on this step you see that's the way it looks but I'm stuck hard aground you'll have to tow me off. But not a word, remember.
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