To lie down upon her bed and die would have been a familiar journey to her compared with that strange voyage across boundless seas to a country of which she knew nothing but the name.
The voyage home was a succession of almost perfectly happy days, as he dwelt beforehand upon the joy that awaited him.
Could he but keep up his vital powers until the voyage was ended, all would be well with him.
The vessel Mr. Chantrey had chosen for the long voyagewas a merchant ship, sailing for Melbourne, under a captain who had been an early friend of his own, and who knew the reason for his leaving England.
The voyagebetween Australia and New Zealand, taken in a crowded and comfortless steamer, was a severe testing time for her.
The exhausting oppressive heat and the protracted voyage were sapping his strength, and he knew it.
All his languor would be gone and the rest of the voyage would bring health and vigor to his fevered frame.
The boy found himself all at once set free from school restraints, restored to his father and mother, who had no one else to interest them; and with all the delights of a ship and a voyage added to his other joys.
Towards the end of that year, while a voyage was being made from Paris to Chalais Meudon, the airship came in contact with a tree and the envelope was badly torn.
How long had that scrap of wreck gone wandering down the Gulf Stream, from Newfoundland into the Mid-Atlantic, and hitherward on its homeless voyage toward the Spitzbergen shore?
Turtle being wanted, the blacksvoyage out each in a bark canoe, which weighs about 40 lbs.
On their voyage to Rhodes, after the fall of Athens, Balaustion dictated to him the Apology of Aristophanes, which he wrote down on board the vessel.
To this he replies that "a voyage may be too safe; there is no excitement, no experiment when wind and tide do all the needful work.
For a simile, we mortals make our life-voyage each in his cabin.
The Knights Templars were instituted by seven gentlemen at Jerusalem, in 1118, to defend the holy places and pilgrims from the insults of the Saracens, and to keep the passes free for such as undertook the voyage to the Holy Land.
It was after a voyage of two years' time that these presents arrived at Jerusalem; and in a letter intrusted to the captain, the Queen said 'After thou hast received the message, then I myself will come to thee.
On his voyage he was attacked by a severe illness, and had lost the power of speech when he arrived at the port of Tripoli.
Who would venture upon a voyage in a ship each plank and timber of which might withdraw at its pleasure?
I had another voyage to make, let him take it as he will.
One would have thought we were ever after to live under ground, or at least making a voyage to Greenland, to inhabit there all the dark season.
It was about the last day of our outward voyage by the largest computation; some time that night, or at latest before noon of the morrow, we should sight the Treasure Island.
The Voyage ALL that night we were in a great bustle getting things stowed in their place, and boatfuls of the squire's friends, Mr. Blandly and the like, coming off to wish him a good voyage and a safe return.
I had made my mind up in a moment, and by way of answer told him the whole story of our voyage and the predicament in which we found ourselves.
We laid her head for the nearest port in Spanish America, for we could not risk the voyage home without fresh hands; and as it was, what with baffling winds and a couple of fresh gales, we were all worn out before we reached it.
Now when the message reached the Magian, he grieved with sore grief and cried, "Verily this voyage is on no wise to be commended.
Then we continued our voyage for five days by boat on the Upper Peiho.
The sea voyage came just in time to give him local color for this weird nautical opera.
The incidents of this voyage will be found set forth in Darwin's "Public Journeys.
It was Professor Henslow who secured for young Darwin the appointment of naturalist to the voyage of the "Beagle.
In 1844 he published a series of observations on the volcanic islands visited during the voyage of the "Beagle," and two years later "Geological Observations on South America.
My skyship, which had been driven for six moons before an irresistible gale, passed over a great city just at daylight one morning, and rather than continue the voyage with a lost reckoning I demanded that I be permitted to disembark.
Here I built a ship and after a long voyage landed on one of the islands constituting the Kingdom of Tortirra.
Our voyage was pleasant, until we arrived in the chops of the channel, where our Commodore received intelligence that a very strong French fleet were cruising for the purpose of intercepting us.
In 1814, he again went to Swansea, under Mr. Slade, and on their voyage from Ilfracombe to Wales the vessel was nearly lost.
The camaraderie of the chase and of the voyage that followed had ceased to be.
Day had just broken, and he found to his surprise that the voyage was over, and the schooner in a small harbour, lying alongside a stone quay.
I've stopped the banns, and I'm going to take her for a voyage with me.
In the course of the voyage he said that it was worth while making such a fool of himself if only to see the skipper's beautiful steering, warmly asseverating that there was not another man on the river that could have done it.
You would be sure that I was eager to hear from you, and to know whether you had a good voyage and found yourself contented in Tideshead.
In fact, they were just off the sea, having come in only two days before on the Catalonia from Liverpool; and the Catalonia, though very comfortable, had made a slower voyage than some steamers do in coming across.
They were surprised, I observed, when you and I came up the street together last night; quite a voyage we had," said the captain.
On a second voyage he coasted along eastern North America as far south as the Carolinas.
In 1783 Barry, in the Alliance, sailed on his last voyage of the Revolution.
Just as soon as the news of Hudson's first voyage reached Holland, the Dutch merchants claimed all the region explored by Hudson and his men and hastened to open up trade with the Indians.
What a sad time in that town when the good queen commanded her ships and sailors to go with Columbus on a voyage where the bravest seamen had never sailed!
Fremont went to school in Charleston, but left for a voyage to South America.
Tell the story of the voyage across the Pacific and how he was received at home.
The long voyage had a happy ending; the immigrants reached the mouth of the Potomac in the springtime, when Maryland is at the height of its beauty (1634).
The captain took me to the owners, who paid me fifteen guineas for my services during the voyage home; and as soon as I received the money, I set off for Newcastle as fast as I could.
We find in a "Nouveau voyage en Espagne," Paris, 1805, p.
We will copy the description given by Madame d'Aunoy in her "Voyage d'Espagne," Lyon 1628.
In 1502, ten years after its conquest by the Christians, we find it stated in the "Voyage of Philip le Beau," the father of the Emperor Charles V.
Instead of attempting this, he wasted twenty-four days in a voyage of four hundred miles, mostly against headwinds, in order to reach the same point!
About the first of October, after a rough return voyage of four hundred miles, Lord Howe's fleet appeared at the mouth of the Delaware.
I shall however attest, as an eye-witness, that in a voyage which I made in 1770 to Fort Dauphin, M.
Being next intended for the Spanish Infant, in her voyage to Spain she wrote these lines in a storm.
The subject is a review of "A Voyage to Madagascar; by the Abbe Rochon.
A remarkable instance of honour is also recorded of an African negro, in captain Snelgrave's account of his voyageto Guinea.
A curious instance of this occurred to Monsieur Peron, in his voyage from Europe to the Isle of France.
Briefly and clearly he announced to all the object of Lord Julian's voyage to the Caribbean, and he informed them of the offer which yesterday Lord Julian had made to him.
It gave a voyage that had been full of interest for him just the spice that it required to achieve perfection as an experience.
For such a voyage a navigator would be necessary, and a navigator was ready to his hand in Jeremy Pitt.
And so as to make quite sure of their obedience, they shall go a little voyage with us, themselves.
Now, don't be hesitating or it's a long voyage ye'll be going with us, and the devil knows what may happen to you.
At this time of the year the voyage may safely be undertaken in a light craft.
Rivarol's fleet that morning, from which it clearly followed that in his voyage from Cartagena, the Frenchman must have spoken some ship that gave him the news.
No; in my voyage across the Atlantic I had no trouble in that way.
As thevoyage drew nearer and nearer the end, Bernard grew excited.
Our voyage has an object, which, something tells me, will not be gained by touching at thy shores.
And next morning proceeded to voyage round to the opposite quarter of the island; where, in the sacred lake of Yammo, stood the famous temple of Oro, also the great gallery of the inferior deities.
And a great oversight had it been in King Media, to have omitted pipes among the appliances of this voyage that we went.
Our coasting voyage at an end, our keels grated the beach among many prostrate palms, decaying, and washed by the billows.
