While the "Bon Homme Richard" was being made ready for sea, the vessels that were to sail with her as consorts were making for the rendezvous at L'Orient.
As soon as he became convinced of the character of the two English ships, Jones beat his crew to quarters, and signalled his consorts to form in line of battle.
In the mean time the "Boston" had calmly proceeded upon her way, leaving her consorts to their fate.
First to make a move were the consorts of officials; and noon had also come, by the time the whole party of them had taken their departure.
Tis not alone his bloody tricks and murderous ways," quoth my wife, "that causes all Christian folk to abhor him, but he consorts with no other women than drabs and callets.
The lady-smocks In silver frocks Do flout the sonsy clover; The humble bee Consorts wi' me And hails me for a rover.
I have tracked him as a panther tracks its prey--he consorts with no one.
Then continue to follow him and see if he consortswith any--woman.
He said that in heaven the two consorts are marriage love, since everyone is his own good and his own truth in respect both to mind and to body, the body being an image of the mind because it is formed after its likeness.
Moreover, in the two consorts marriage love may differ, in one there may be more or less of it, in the other little or none; and because of this difference heaven may be the portion of one and hell the portion of the other.
Raymond looked over the ship–news in all the papers he could find in the club–house; but the last news he could obtain was that the Prince and her consorts had arrived at Carthagena.
Neither the Prince nor her consorts were in Gibraltar; and it was plain enough to the Spaniard that Bark and his companion had come in the steamer he had seen going into Algeciras two hours before.
The next day the squadron sailed, and put into Alicante after a twenty–four hours’ run; the wind being so light that the steamer had to tow her consorts nearly the whole distance.
The American Prince had already anchored; and her twoconsorts immediately followed her example.
The next morning all hands from the two consorts were sent on board of the American Prince.
As her consorts had not gone to Cadiz with her, he was satisfied that the steamer was to return to Malaga.
The two consorts had all sail set, and were making about eight knots an hour, which was only half speed for the steamer, to which she had been reduced in order to keep company with the sailing vessels.
At the mouth of the river the Prince took her consorts in tow.
One consorts with the Pope and Cardinal Wiseman and Archbishop Manning, and is the idol and saint of the Ultramontanes, and devotes his noble intellect to the task of making the Irish Catholic a more bigoted Catholic than ever.
Punishments were drastic, and in the case of a man convicted of treason, all his children were executed with him, his wives and consorts committing suicide.
They had already given consorts to five emperors in succession, and jealous rivals were watching keenly to attack this clan which threatened to usurp the place long held by the most illustrious family in the land.
No one except his consorts and his chief ministers ever saw his face.
Before a year had passed he conspired to usurp the throne and was put to death with his children, his consorts strangling themselves.
The Agamemnon “lost every sail in her,” her consortswere dispersed “over the face of the waters.
What a sorry lot they were, those eleven ships--six Spanish and five French--which with theirconsorts had attempted to dethrone the Mistress of the Seas.
One year's residence is likewise required in Porto Rico, unless the act complained of was committed in the island or while one of the consorts resided there.
After her, however, flew our two consorts and, ourselves, and still we felt sure that we should capture her.
The dim outline of our two consorts could be perceived on either quarter.
We kept the lead, our consorts following, one on either quarter, to be ready to cut her off, should the breeze shift, and place her to windward.
In an instant two or three jackets were thrown over his head; but it was too late; he had been heard on board a cruiser very close to which we were passing, and she and two or three of her consorts immediately opened fire upon us.
After we had got rid of our friend on the bar, we were heavily peppered by her consorts outside, from whom we received no damage, but we fell in with very bad weather, and the ship was under water most of the time.
Fathers and Kings, to have at the same time two consorts or Queens” (p.
Three fires I have known, three hearths I have known, of three consorts I have been borne to the house.
His wives and consorts lavish on him their devotion but the very fact that they are married removes the romantic element from their relationship.
The snake's consorts plead for mercy--one of them holding out bunches of lotus flowers, the others folding their hands or stretching out their arms in mute entreaty.
Suddenly three of Sorpiala's femaleconsorts approached, catching her off-guard with the offending fruit still held openly in her palm.
Off to the left, one of Sorpiala's consortsstepped several quick steps forward and fell down prostrate on her face with the muffled cry, "Aye, Highness!
Let even one of her consorts be so much as threatened with the tiniest scratch, and Sorpiala's lies could be mercilessly exposed to save their own skins.
Silently the Queen Elizabeth and her more important consorts withdrew to safer waters, and the naval attempt to force the Dardanelles was gradually transformed into a military siege of the peninsula.
The chief bombardment was from outside in the Gulf of Saros, where it was hoped that the guns of the Queen Elizabeth and her consorts would by indirect fire dispose of Chanak and the other forts.
Babylonian and Assyrian female deities are of two classes: those who are merelyconsorts of the male deities, and those who represent fertility.
In early times the goddess is represented as choosing her consorts at will, but this is merely an attribution to her of a common custom of the period.
Having put most of our prisoners well guarded on board the Mignonne, we parted from her, she to continue her passage to the Mauritius, we to accompany our consorts in search of the enemy.
Raised considerably higher than his consorts was a sort of throne placed on the top of a large arm-chest full of muskets, and on this his Sandwich Island Majesty was seated in regal state.
The king and his brown consorts came in a large double canoe, formed by lashing two canoes together separated by bars.
Thetis stoop'd home, and found the prostrate person of her son About his friend, still pouring out himself in passión; A number more being heavy consorts to him in his cares.
Meanwhile our consorts were miles away, though probably the desired junction had been made, and we expected to see their topsails fill as they turned to renew the combat.
We were almost within range when her maintopsail filled and she was off, following the direction of her two consorts who had made towards Hispaniola.
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