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... give in - Holding out - Captain Pakenham addresses the men - Returning to duty - I am taken as a mutineer- Awaiting trial -- Conduct of the ringleaders - The court - martial - My signature produced in evidence against me - A plot to ...
... give in - Holding out - Captain Pakenham addresses the men - Returning to duty - I am taken as a mutineer- Awaiting trial -- Conduct of the ringleaders - The court - martial - My signature produced in evidence against me - A plot to ...
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... gives signs of sinking - We set about building a raft - An unexpected appearance - Jacques and his fiddle - The raft completed and launched - The first night - Dick and I compare notes - Troubled sleep - A dreadful reality - My com ...
... gives signs of sinking - We set about building a raft - An unexpected appearance - Jacques and his fiddle - The raft completed and launched - The first night - Dick and I compare notes - Troubled sleep - A dreadful reality - My com ...
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... give it up himself and to come and live with her on shore . It is a dream of happiness in which many a poor sailor indulges , but how few are able to realize ! He was expected round at Plymouth , on his way to the Mediterranean , but ...
... give it up himself and to come and live with her on shore . It is a dream of happiness in which many a poor sailor indulges , but how few are able to realize ! He was expected round at Plymouth , on his way to the Mediterranean , but ...
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... give it a particularly melancholy and unattractive appearance . One of the owners had come round in the brig , but he had landed and taken a post - chaise back towards London . In the morning the brig sailed , and by noon the gale was ...
... give it a particularly melancholy and unattractive appearance . One of the owners had come round in the brig , but he had landed and taken a post - chaise back towards London . In the morning the brig sailed , and by noon the gale was ...
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... give is very necessary . It was not , however , till long , long after that I found all this out . I had not been seated at the tea - table many minutes before I opened the subject which lay nearest my heart . My kind grand- mother and ...
... give is very necessary . It was not , however , till long , long after that I found all this out . I had not been seated at the tea - table many minutes before I opened the subject which lay nearest my heart . My kind grand- mother and ...
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Page 199 - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath : for it is written, Vengeance is mine ; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him ; if he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Page 79 - There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To take care of the life of poor Jack.
Page 271 - There is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and before the spring much may be changed.
Page 346 - Bear down, d'ye see, To our Admiral's lee ! ' 'No, no,' says the Frenchman, 'that can't be !' ' Then I must lug you along with me !
Page 346 - Frenchman laughed and thought it stuff, But they knew not the handful of men, how tough, On board of the Arethusa. On deck five hundred men did dance, The stoutest they could find in France; We with two hundred did advance On board of the Arethusa. Our captain hailed the Frenchman, 'Ho!