He stared back at the ship when he paused on the crest of the hill, trying to puzzle out what was struggling for recognition in him.
In this corner it must have lain ever since while he played with and broke the other ship of wood.
A small beetle of the first family of Cryptophagus of Major Gyllenhal swarms often in the ship biscuit, and may probably be the insect Sparrman here complains of under the name of Dermestes paniceus.
A light air afterwards sprang up from the north-east, at which time there fell from the cloud an innumerable quantity of large grasshoppers, so as to cover the deck, the tops and every part of the ship they could alight upon.
And scandalize the skiff; As taut and hoisted high and dry They see the ship unstoppered lie Upon the sea-girt cliff.
And right upon the Scilly Isles The ship had run aground; When lo!
Through foam and spray a league away The anchor stout he bore, Till, safe at last, I made it fast, And warped the ship ashore.
I skip forty years," said the Baker, in tears, "And proceed without further remark To the day when you took me aboard of your ship To help you in hunting the Snark.
The good ship was a racing yawl, A spare-rigged schooner sloop, Athwart the bows the taffrails all In grummets gay appeared to fall, To deck the mainsail poop.
All the day they hunted, And nothing could they find But a ship a-sailing, A-sailing with the wind.
There the sailors would have ended their wanderings; but they sought in vain to land, for the ship would not obey its helm.
Gaily the ship sped upon her way, and there was laughter and mirth among the youths and maidens who were going back to their home.
Send him straightway from the ship in peace, if ye fear not a deadly storm as we cross the open sea.
But the ship of Telemachus had now reached the land, and he sent some of his men to tell Penelope that her son was come back, while he himself went to the house of Eumaius.
In doubt and fear, she roamed along the beach, but she saw no one, and there was no ship sailing on the blue sea.
Then a great terror fell on all, as they cried to the old helmsman, "Quick, turn the ship to the shore; there is no hope for us here.
Then at the bidding of Dionysos, the north wind came and wafted the ship to the land of Egypt, where Proteus was King.
So she wept not as she saw the towers of Gnossos growing fainter and fainter while the ship sped over the dancing waters, and she thought only of the happy days which she should spend in the bright Athens where Theseus should one day be King.
The white sail was spread to the breeze, and the ship sped gaily over the heaving waters.
The dawn light was stealing across the eastern sky when the good ship rode into the haven of the sea-god, Phorkys, and rested without anchor or cable beneath the rocks which keep off the breath of the harsh winds.
Then she led him to a hidden dell where the dragon guarded the fleece, and she laid her spells on the monster and brought a heavy sleep upon his eye, while Iason took the fleece and hastened to carry it on board the ship Argo.
So the sail was drawn up to the mast, and it swelled proudly before the breeze as the shipdashed through the crested waves.
Two of the foremost guns were trained aft, and the men were all ordered to lie down on the deck close to the taffrail, to bring the ship more by the stern.
One morning the man at the mast-head reported a large ship to the southward, and Captain Driver made her out to be a man-of-war.
Didn't I sail with a man once as had been in a ship where one of the lads had seen the Flying Dutchman the voyage before, and swore to it, too?
Captain Driver kept a light burning in the stern cabin, and gave strict orders that every other light in the ship should be put out.
There was such a hush among us on board, after all the sails had been set, that the only sound heard was the hissing noise made by the ship as she cut rapidly through the smooth water, and the small bubbles floated away astern.
A circular was sent from the commodore, to order two boats from every ship in the fleet to attend the funeral--and a grand funeral it was.
Of course there's always the faint possibility that they're waiting for some other ship to join; or for a coaler.
Or here of a ship at sea, in the distance:-- And on through zones of light and shadow Glimmer away to the lonely deep.
I put out into the deep open sea with but one ship and with that small company which had not deserted me.
The next largest shipwas the Pinta, which was commanded by Martin Alonso Pinzon, who took his brother Francisco with him as sailing-master.
These, with a rough knowledge of astronomy, and the taking of the altitude of the polar star, were the only known means for ascertaining the position of his ship at sea.
The third ship was a caravel of forty tons and called the Nina; she belonged to Juan Nino of Palos.
The scene which presented itself on my getting on board the flag-ship was still more singular.
He is the very man to make up his mind in three minutes if the Viceroy of Canton were in a rage, the mob bellowing round the doors of the factory, and an English ship of war making preparations to bombard the town.
The run was unusually fast, and the ship only spent a week in the Bay of Bengal, and forty-eight hours in the Hooghly.
We found it all snow-white and pea-green; and we rejoice to think that we shall not again be under the necessity of quitting it, till we quit it for a shipbound on a voyage to London.
That meant, Friday reflected, that the brigands had cleared the ship of the gas in some way.
Friday remembered a tale told him once by a survivor of a tradingship Judd the Kite had destroyed.
It was characteristic of the man that he preferred to strike at an enemy ship in a wild, breath-taking swoop, even as the fierce hawk plummets from high heaven to sink its talons deep into the flesh of its more sluggish prey.
The port-lights of his ship veered aside; drew to a position abreast of the other.
Orange light winked from her stern, and the Hawk's ship was bathed in a streak of color.
The mold-like fungus which had prevented them from getting the ship into control was slowly melting away.
Spiral and zig-zag the ship all you dare, altering the period of the swing each time.
Against such an emergency they had drilled often, and all over the ship the crew would be springing rapidly into space-suits hanging ready.
Get the power ray from the ship and burn out two big pits on that knoll off the corner of the corral.
But this season was the one of dark, full-bodied nights; and it was into the hush of their blackness that the Star Devil and her attendant brigand ship glided.
As if thinking aloud, Carse whispered: "From that ship ahead.
Did they not know he had--thanks to Master Scientist Eliot Leithgow--the fastest ship in space, and would inevitably overtake them?
We only found four skeletons, an' four, ain't the full crew for a shiplike this.
He pointed up at the screen: on it, the brigand ship was a mere four inches in size, and bearing straight out on an unwavering course.
He was ill on board the ship which brought him to America, and when it arrived in Philadelphia, a man by the name of Christopher Sower came on board, saying he was looking for a man who was ill, and whom he wished to take to his house.
It being then dark, and not knowing how to proceed, we shortened sail and brought to the wind, in order that if the ship struck it might be with less force; but happily we passed on without any further decrease of soundings.
On the 3d, the gale was most violent, and the williwaws became short hurricanes, in some of which the ship drifted and fouled her anchors.
While the ship was getting under way, I went ashore to a larger number of Indians who were waiting on the beach.
Meanwhile the ship was prepared to sail in search of a new place at which to employ our instruments.
Hitherto we had been extremely fortunate, both with the ship and the boats; but such success could not be expected always.
We reached the ship that afternoon, well laden with fragments of Cape Horn.
His sketch of the sound, and description of York Minster, are very good, and quite enough to guide a ship to the anchoring place.
They made a tack or two, and crept along a little, but afterwards resigned themselves to ship the sail and take to the oars, which was not so exhilarating nor so well adapted to show the beauty of the landscape.
Either I have lost my mind from this gin, or a ship is being wrecked near by.
Just as they looked at the little ship before, so they now look at him.
They look at the ship again, at its perfect little sails--at the little rags.
Involuntarily this little ship has somehow become the centre of attraction and all those who speak, who are silent and who listen, look at it, study each familiar sail.
The abbot paces the room again; he looks at the little ship fastened to the ceiling and asks: "Who made it?
Captain, is it your intention to return to the ship and assume command again?
For little Noni, for him--for little Noni who is boarding the ship to-night.
He throws down the little ship and rises: "Khorre!
Haggart laughs good-naturedly and ironically: "She asks what a man needs a ship for.
The fisherman took his advice, and soon arrived at Deal, where the reader will, I doubt not, be as much concerned as Wild was, that there was not a single ship prepared to go on the expedition.
We sailed near twelve hours, when we came in sight of the ship we were in pursuit of, and which we should probably have soon come up with had not a very thick mist ravished her from our eyes.
The captain of thisship was a Frenchman; she was laden with deal from Norway, and had been extremely shattered in the late storm.
Can you tell me the name of the ship the mother of the present proprietor of Cross Hall went to America in?
He would not trust to us going unless he saw us off; so he appointed to meet in London, where the ship was to sail from, and he would arrange all things for our going off quiet and comfortable; and then we was to part for ever.
The mother from whom you stole the child is probably dead also, and at any rate gone out of England--you do not even know her name, or that of the ship she sailed in.
The family council met on this proposal, and it was ultimately acceded to, and the family were busy with their preparations to go in the same ship as Peggy and the Lowries.
Mrs. Peck said the ship was to sail the next day; but her own vessel had been rather hurried to go with the tide, and there was no saying whether that was the case with the American one.
So the good ship sailed next week, bearing Jane from the man who loved her, and whom she loved, and Elsie and Miss Harriett Phillips towards the man whom they both thought loved them.
Because we were on board ship by that time, before the mail from Australia came in.
Every mail steamer, and every fine clipper ship that sailed for Australia seemed to take one or more from them; and though new people did come, they did not appear to be so agreeable as those who went away.
Medical science, trying to advance, was like a ship becalmed in the Sargasso Sea: both the atmosphere about it and the medium through which it must move resisted all progress.
Because John Howard sailed on an infected ship from Constantinople to Venice, that he might be put into a lazaretto and find out the clew to that awful mystery of the plague and stay its power.
If this incident is credible, a youth who in four days can talk the chains off his wrists, talk himself into the captaincy, talk a pirate ship into his own hands as booty, is not to be accounted for by his eloquent words.
Soon theship began to roll gently in response to the ever-increasing swell.
With prayers in vain and curses in vain, The White Ship sundered on the mid-main: 155 And what were men and what was a ship Were toys and splinters in the sea's grip.
The ship was eager and sucked athirst, By the stealthy stab of the sharp reef pierced, And like the moil[277] round a sinking cup, The waters against her crowded up.
See, safe through shoal and rock, How they follow in a flock, Not a ship that misbehaves, not a keel that grates the ground, Not a spar that comes to grief!
The Prince and all his, a princely show, Remained in the good White Ship to go.
But at midnight's stroke they cleared the bay, And the White Ship furrowed the water-way.
Rather say, While rock stands or water runs, Not a ship will leave the bay!
In 1591 he was given command of the Revenge, a second-rate ship of five hundred tons' burden and carrying a crew of two hundred and fifty men, and sent to the Azores to intercept a Spanish treasure fleet.
I tried to be reasonable and bought about enough for two months, but here we have a ship load.
The ores were all base and of too low a grade to ship away.
He told me that when off the cape they encountered a gale which drove the ship far to the southward; that the weather was so dreadfully cold that the ship's rigging was sheeted with ice from sleet and frozen spray.
I mean a real storm in which a three thousand ton ship is tossed about like a cork, when the roar of the storm makes human voices of no avail, and when the billows give notice that 'deep is answering unto deep.
After awhile the storm was weathered, the cape was rounded and the ship put into Valparaiso for fresh supplies.
Between the two pictures the ship was plunging on her course and we could feel the pulses of the deep sea as they throbbed beneath us.
Probus indeed, transplanted trees to the arena, so that it had the appearance of a verdant grove; and Severus introduced four hundred ferocious animals in one ship sailing in the little lake which the arena formed.
It appears as if you heard the sides of the ship crack, so natural does it look with its broken masts and lacerated sails; the persons on deck are stretching their hands toward heaven, while others have thrown themselves into the sea.
