Was," corrected the absentee Acting Chief Officer, proceeding to relieve himself of the encumbrance of his scanty garb of trailingseaweed and oyster-shells.
His costume of muslin (lent by one of the lady passengers) had suffered horribly during his attempt to squeeze through the hatch, while the trimmings of seashells and seaweed added to the weird appearance of the young Wireless Officer.
Queen, as Tom Atto spread the table with a cloth of woven seaweed and directed his men to place the dishes upon it.
The salad was a delicate leaf from some seaweed that Trot thought was much nicer than lettuce.
And now they were in a lofty, broad corridor having many doors hung with seaweed draperies.
Even in the turmoil of the boiling waters Beatrice felt the seaweed give.
Of his frame, however, what between the mist and the unpleasantly damp seaweed with which he was wreathed, not much was to be seen.
He shook the wet seaweed off his rough clothes, and, having lit a short briar pipe, set to work to hunt for the duck and the first curfew.
Again the foaming terror was rushing down upon them; again she flung herself upon the rock and grasping the slippery seaweed twined her left arm about the helpless Geoffrey.
Beatrice gave up studying the seaweed and watched the gathering of these fleecy hosts.
Instinctively she flung herself upon her face, gripping the long tough seaweed with one hand.
The water lifted her from the rock, but the seaweed held, and when at length the sea had gone boiling by, Beatrice found herself and the senseless form of Geoffrey once more lying side by side.
Well, that right and left has been worth three hours' wait in the wet seaweed and the violent cold that may follow--that is, to any man who has a soul for true sport.
Smells of seaweed and tide-flat wafted in through open hatch and portholes.
In these brown patches of seaweed the tiny fish, the schools of baby herring, take refuge from their restless enemy, the swift and voracious salmon.
They were against it; the boat touched, and Stella felt a long ribbon of seaweed cut her like a whip across the face.
Now, too, he was sure that the rocks must be close at hand, for he could hear the running tide distinctly as it washed against them and through the dense growth of seaweed that clung to their crests and ridges.
It has been estimated that more than three tons of seaweed were required at a burning, in order to produce three hundredweight of kelp.
The days of scads and tates and scrambling for seaweed have now been long past; but prosperity does not seem to have spoilt the islanders any more than adversity.
A vessel was found on the rocks, bottom upwards, by some farmers gathering seaweed for manure.
Here are little fish and bits of seaweed they have eaten within the hour.
Upon the bed of seaweed in his underground den he nursed the wounded woman, using those mysterious remedies called "simples;" end thanks to his care, she lived.
It is clinging in a little hollow of the rock, half hidden in seaweed of the same color.
Just lift up some of that seaweed and stuff which the waves have piled up.
For our third ramble we will wander about among the rocks, and examine the creatures which are crawling about on them, or burrowing into them, or hiding underneath the great masses of seaweed with which they are covered.
If you turn over a bunch of seaweed which has been flung up by the waves just above high-water mark, you are almost sure to find forty or fifty of these odd little creatures hiding under it.
But how is it that all those tufts of seaweedare growing on the upper part of the shell?
The most useful possible organic foliar is 1/2 to 1 tablespoon each of fish emulsion and liquid seaweedconcentrate per gallon of water.
That's because it is nearly impossible to get significant quantities of phosphorus or calcium into solution using any combination of fish emulsion and seaweed or liquid kelp.
Organic gardeners may fertigate with combinations of fish emulsion and seaweed at the same dilution used for foliar spraying, or with compost/manure tea.
Moving very slowly and beating the seaweed as they went, little by little the two drove the hosts of squid back through the kelp to a narrow bay, the water being turned to a muddy brownish-black by the discharge of the ink-bags.
I'll give you some seaweed pudding, carrageen, you know.
Plenty of them are only in the water for a little while at high tide, living in the moist seaweed until the tide rises again.
Soft sand will wash, mud will ooze up, and rank marine grass or seaweed will smother the young cells.
Seaweed for fertilizer must be plucked from the rocks in the sea, carried up the mountain side and laid black and thick in the sterile brown furrows.
They must pluck the black seaweed to fertilize their field.
The seaweed should be a day or two in the tank before the creatures are put into it.
Dry twigs and seaweed were soon in a blaze on the hearth, I filled the iron pot with water, and after I gave my wife several cakes of the portable soup, she established herself as our cook, with little Franz to help her.
I collected a quantity of seaweed to spread over them, which was afterwards burnt to make alkali, when we returned to secure our harvest of pearls.
As we pulled back to the land I was surprised to see that my wife chose from among the seaweed a number of curious leaves with edges notched like a saw.
How much seaweed can you haul to a load, and about how many loads do you apply to the acre?
Yes, all of that if we had to pay for the work, but of course we can haul seaweed more or less when the farm work isn't crowding, and we don't count so much on the expense.
The corn crop will generally more'n pay for it and the fertilizer too; and the seaweed helps for three or four years, especially for grass.
But Georgia land cannot be covered with fertilizer made from Illinois corn, nor even with seaweed and fish-scrap from the ocean.
I don't think I would haul seaweed seven miles if I could get manure in town for nothing.
I didn't have quite enough manure to finish this field and I had no more time to haul seaweed so I planted without getting any manure on a few rods in one corner, and the corn there wouldn't make three bushels from an acre.
Where we spread seaweed for corn, we add about four hundred and fifty pounds per acre of fertilizer that costs me $26 a ton, but I have the agency and get it some cheaper than most have to pay.
Do you know how much a cord of the seaweed would weigh?
It doesn't take the cash, except may be a little for a boy to drive one team when we haul two loads at a time; and we don't use seaweed for potatoes.
I want naturalists carefully to examine floating seaweed and pumice met with at sea.
Show me the white sky and the opal sea, and the seaweedthat smells like violets!
Although this may be attributed to these islands being surrounded with a salt, and consequently a moist atmosphere, yet the ashes (seaweed ashes) made use of as manure, may also have their portion of influence.
There is a sort of strawberry cultivated at Jersey, which is almost covered with seaweed in the winter, in like manner as many plants in England are with litter from the stable.
Page 237 Indian amid the seaweed on the Red Sea’s shores.
You might have thought you saw the seaweed dashed against the rocks and heard the murmur of the hissing waves flooding up the thirsty sands.
The fish seconds nature’s efforts with its own guilefulness; knowing its own capabilities, it employs cunning, and trusting to its power of touch lies stretched full length among the seaweed and so attacks its prey.
My bedroom rocks With breezes; quakes in storms, When dangling locks Of seaweed mock the forms Of straggling clouds that trail o'erhead Like tresses from disrupted coffin-lead.
Brown ivy old, green herbage new; Soft seaweed stealing up the shingle; An ancient chapel where a crew, Ere sailing, in the prayer commingle.
She still wore the brown dress tagged with parti-coloured ribbons, and her plentiful white hair still hung like seaweed from under the dingy red handkerchief.
He had gold rings in his ears, and plenteous grey hair hung like seaweed from under a peaked cap, pushed back from his lined forehead.
These were the fishermen from Innisshowen, coming to gather the seaweed on the western shore their eastern aspect denied them,--a hardy and a daring race, who braved the terrible storms of that fearful coast without a thought of fear.
After the ash and seaweed were spread I ploughed it in after a fashion, streaking long shallow trenches with my pointed wooden plough, till I had gone over the whole of the land.
Slowly the net came up, and as the water left it there appeared among the brown seaweed two huge pieces of rock tied to something which looked very horrid.
I looked at the tumbled ground with no great satisfaction, for as much of the manure-seaweed was upon the surface as under, so I turned to and ploughed crossways, which gave it a little better appearance.
At length I had my land in tolerable order, although the seaweed refused to rot as quickly as I desired.
If manured, for the first two years, with seaweedand salt mud, and supplied with water in dry weather, there need be no loss, and the plants will thrive the better.
Farm yard manure is the best; next to that green seaweed dripping with salt water--this is an excellent manure, and should be dug in the ground as the arrowroot is taken up.
