others. In the middle belt of the earth the Trade Winds reign supreme, undisputed, like monarchs of...
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heart flaming with anger has its counterpart in the chilly blasts that seem blown from a breast tur...
the West Wind's dominions most thickly populated with generations of fine ships and hardy men. Hero...
conveying the impression of poverty and uselessness. Sometimes such an ugliness is merely a repulsi...
tale of years of the river's strenuous service to its people these are its only breathing times. X...
a violent death on the coast of New Zealand), fascinated by the monotony, the regularity, the abrup...
if assembled there for an exhibition, not of a great industry, but of a great art. Their colours we...
to a violent death, its immensity has never been loved as the mountains, the plains, the desert its...
first only we three stood alone, for a long time, watching you coming down to us, and feeling the b...
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slightly lofty but courteous way he inquired what were my plans. I replied that I intended leaving ...
enough for him. And yet, somehow, nothing ever seems to go right in this ship. I tell you what: she...
inhabitants of these isles nearly as much as to their inborn love of the sea. But the writer of the...
affection. Punctuality is its watchword. The incertitude which attends closely every artistic endea...
soul of the world turned over with a heavy sigh, a perfectly new, extra-stout foresail vanish like ...