if assembled there for an exhibition, not of a great industry, but of a great art. Their colours we...
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heart flaming with anger has its counterpart in the chilly blasts that seem blown from a breast tur...
to a violent death, its immensity has never been loved as the mountains, the plains, the desert its...
the West Wind's dominions most thickly populated with generations of fine ships and hardy men. Hero...
first only we three stood alone, for a long time, watching you coming down to us, and feeling the b...
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...
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 ...
three parts ocean, and therefore a fit abode for sailors. A few years afterwards I met in an Indian...
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weight of his first cargo in a ship he did not personally know before. Ships do want humouring. Th...
slightly lofty but courteous way he inquired what were my plans. I replied that I intended leaving ...
upon a ship, she had made up her mind to kill all hands at once before leaving the scene of her exp...
enough for him. And yet, somehow, nothing ever seems to go right in this ship. I tell you what: she...