The Englishman and the Sea: An AnthologyChristopher Lloyd Allen & Unwin, 1946 - 162 pages |
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... stood there in the dark passage . My friend George could not suppress his alarm , and he grasped my wrist hard , with a groan , " Oh , " trying to draw me back , but I was afraid of being frightened : —I felt an instinctive certainty ...
... stood there in the dark passage . My friend George could not suppress his alarm , and he grasped my wrist hard , with a groan , " Oh , " trying to draw me back , but I was afraid of being frightened : —I felt an instinctive certainty ...
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... stood on the carronade - first lieutenant , says he , Send all my merry men aft here , for they must list to me : I haven't the gift of the gab , my sons — because I'm bred to the That ship there is a Frenchman , who means to fight with ...
... stood on the carronade - first lieutenant , says he , Send all my merry men aft here , for they must list to me : I haven't the gift of the gab , my sons — because I'm bred to the That ship there is a Frenchman , who means to fight with ...
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... stood the weather equally with any timber . That the Flour in the King's Ships has been devoured by weevils , and become so intolerably musty , and cemented into such hard rocks , that the men have been obliged to use instruments , with ...
... stood the weather equally with any timber . That the Flour in the King's Ships has been devoured by weevils , and become so intolerably musty , and cemented into such hard rocks , that the men have been obliged to use instruments , with ...
Contents
THE NATION AND THE SEA Introduction 1 Prayer for the Navy Book of Common Prayer | 13 |
Look to your Moat Halifax | 14 |
Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms Bacon IS 6 The Historians Comment Corbett IS 7 The Lady of the Sea Camden | 16 |
Copyright | |
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Admiral Admiral Collingwood anchor Anon berth Blow high blow low boat BOATSWAIN bonny coasts Byam Martin cabin Captain casks Channel Crossings coasts of Barbary Collingwood command crew cried danger dead deck devil dinner doth drowned England English eyes fleet frigate gale give going sailor GONZALO Greenland grog hand hath head heart helm HILAIRE BELLOC hoisted honour Jack Robinson Lady land leave live look Lord Lord Fisher Lord Nelson mariners master mate midshipman morning Naval Officer Navy NED WARD Nelson never night ocean old Sol Passage to India Press Gang quarter-deck Queen roar rolled rope round Royal sail sailor laddie says Jack seamen ship ship's shore side soldiers speak Spithead stood STOPFORD BROOK storm stormy winds Tempest thee things thou thunder Verjuice vessel Victualling voyage waves winds do blow