Far from Home, Or, The Fights and Adventures of a Runaway

Voorkant
Jarrold, 1896 - 271 pagina's
 

Inhoudsopgave

Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen

Populaire passages

Pagina 179 - WE therefore commit his body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body, (when the sea shall give up her dead,) and the life of the world to come...
Pagina 183 - Where do you come from ?' and ' What do you want ?
Pagina 57 - I never heard his voice again, for at that moment the fragment of an entangled spar came crushing on my head and felled me to the deck, stunned. But they told me afterwards that he gathered me in his great strong arms, gentle and tender like a woman, and lowered me into the friendly 'ands stretched out from the boat, first bendin' his noble head over my face and kissin
Pagina 10 - I am often asked [Voltaire writes in his " Memoires "] by what art I have come to live like a farmer-general, and it is good to tell it, in order that my example may be of service. I saw so many men of letters poor and despised that I made up my mind a long time ago that I would not increase their number. In France a man must be anvil or hammer ; I was born anvil. A slender patrimony becomes smaller every day, because in the long run everything increases in price, and government often taxes both...
Pagina 51 - Do you love her too, shipmate ?" " By , I do !" he busts out, and we stands up and looks at each other straight. By-and-by I 'olds out my 'and, and Bill takes 'old on it tight. " Brother," says I, " you speak to her fust." " No, no," says he ; but after a bit he consented. Next morning he starts off for the purpose, and I didn't see nothing of him till nightfall. I was walkin...
Pagina 56 - Dublin," already beginnin' to break up ! Sometimes above us, on the summit of some angry wave, sometimes hidden from our sight, sometimes driven back, the boat our strainin' eyes were fixed on came slowly closer, and at last she reached us ; and several mates and old friends did me and Bill make out as she came alongside. Quickly the boat filled with her livin...
Pagina 51 - No, no," says he ; but after a bit he consented. Next morning he starts off for the purpose, and I didn't see nothing of him till nightfall. I was walkin' along the shore lookin' at the ships out at sea, and the stars shinin' up aloft, and thinking about Mary, and how I should do 'case of her and Bill agreeing to sail in company, when Bill come up very quiet and says in a choky sort of voice : " Shipmate, she don't love me ; and God bless you .and her!" Now it came to my turn to speak, I must say...
Pagina 49 - Scripter ; and it ain't no manner o' use for to repine.' So we goes in steady for 'ard work, to keep up the homes for our mothers and the little uns ; and boys as we was, we managed to bring enough shot to the locker, till there came a very bad season, and then me and Bill determined to go sailorin
Pagina 51 - ' Do you love her too, shipmate ? ' "„' Steve, mate, I do ! ' he bursts out, and we stands up and looks at each other straight. By-and-by I 'olds out my 'and, and Bill takes 'old on it tight. " ' Brother,' says I,
Pagina 207 - Is it likely your children will he ladies and gentlemen," he said, "if you prevail on their father to play the part of a sneaking parasite ? " I was frightened. He had never spoken to me in such a tone, but I saw too well how deeply he was hurt to take offence at his roughness.

Bibliografische gegevens