The Overland MonthlySamuel Carson, 1915 |
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... schooner with dynamite , A barrel of dynamite , A blown - up yacht is a cheerful sight , A cheerful , fearful sight . A keg of giant makes a goodly gash , But the girl and her lover escaped the crash- I felt the cut of her curses lash ...
... schooner with dynamite , A barrel of dynamite , A blown - up yacht is a cheerful sight , A cheerful , fearful sight . A keg of giant makes a goodly gash , But the girl and her lover escaped the crash- I felt the cut of her curses lash ...
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... schooner may be two weeks overdue without taking all the urbanity and glee out of a young man awaiting its arrival on a mid - Pacific island , but when that schooner is a month behind time and the man's wife happens to be aboard , there ...
... schooner may be two weeks overdue without taking all the urbanity and glee out of a young man awaiting its arrival on a mid - Pacific island , but when that schooner is a month behind time and the man's wife happens to be aboard , there ...
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... schooner that had not come . " Better go back to the job , Walter , " his partner was advising him that morning as the two stared out upon the vacant blue . " It will make the time go faster . " " Time ! " gruffed Fanning . " Six weeks ...
... schooner that had not come . " Better go back to the job , Walter , " his partner was advising him that morning as the two stared out upon the vacant blue . " It will make the time go faster . " " Time ! " gruffed Fanning . " Six weeks ...
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... schooner , at which Ruggles ashore glanced with a great heaving sigh , then , turning , fled for the palms . He was nowhere in sight when Fanning reached the beach with Clarice and the Reverend Alex Montgomery and his wife . Nor did he ...
... schooner , at which Ruggles ashore glanced with a great heaving sigh , then , turning , fled for the palms . He was nowhere in sight when Fanning reached the beach with Clarice and the Reverend Alex Montgomery and his wife . Nor did he ...
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... schooner's departure , three days later , Ruggles kept away from Clarice . On his urgent plea , Fanning had settled accounts , giving him a check on a Sydney bank for his share of the pearls and copra . It was in the cool of late ...
... schooner's departure , three days later , Ruggles kept away from Clarice . On his urgent plea , Fanning had settled accounts , giving him a check on a Sydney bank for his share of the pearls and copra . It was in the cool of late ...
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Página 205 - Seventy-four," in a muffled minor, ending with a prolonged dying fall at the burden of each verse, " On booo-ard of the Arethusa." It was a fine sight to see Jack holding the Luck, rocking from side to side as if with the motion of a ship, and crooning forth this naval ditty. Either through the peculiar rocking of Jack, or the length of his...
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Página 200 - Dissolute, abandoned, and irreclaimable, she was yet suffering a martyrdom hard enough to bear even when veiled by sympathizing womanhood, but now terrible in her loneliness. The primal curse had come to her in that original isolation which must have made the punishment of the first transgression so dreadful. It was, perhaps, part of the expiation of her sin that, at a moment when she most lacked...
Página 206 - With the prosperity of the camp came a desire for further improvement. It was proposed to build a hotel in the following spring, and to invite one or two decent families to reside there for the sake of The Luck, who might perhaps profit by female companionship. The sacrifice that this concession to the sex cost these men, who were fiercely skeptical in regard to its general virtue and usefulness, can only be accounted for by their affection for Tommy. A few still held out. But the resolve could not...
Página 201 - ... and complexion of the coming stranger. In the midst of an excited discussion an exclamation came from those nearest the door, and the camp stopped to listen. Above the swaying and moaning of the pines, the swift rush of the river, and the crackling of the fire, rose a sharp, querulous cry, — a cry unlike anything heard before in the camp. The pines stopped moaning, the river ceased to rush, and the fire to crackle. It seemed as if nature had stopped to listen too.
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