The Broad, Broad Ocean and Some of Its InhabitantsFrederick Warne and Company, 1871 - 420 pages |
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... seemed so mean an object , struck the scales with his hand , and scattered the gold on the ground , exclaiming , " Why should you quarrel for such a trifle ? If this gold is indeed so precious in your eyes that you forsake your homes ...
... seemed so mean an object , struck the scales with his hand , and scattered the gold on the ground , exclaiming , " Why should you quarrel for such a trifle ? If this gold is indeed so precious in your eyes that you forsake your homes ...
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... seemed to bristle with in- creased stiffness , and an unfortunate hole in the back of his mitten " stung like a burning coal . " On the next day , while walking , his beard and moustache became one solid mass of ice . " I inad- EARLY ...
... seemed to bristle with in- creased stiffness , and an unfortunate hole in the back of his mitten " stung like a burning coal . " On the next day , while walking , his beard and moustache became one solid mass of ice . " I inad- EARLY ...
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... seemed to be in- sensible to the presence of the strangers . He was found to be a corpse , and a green damp mould had covered his cheeks and fore- head , and veiled his eye - balls . He had a pen in his hand , and a log - book lay ...
... seemed to be in- sensible to the presence of the strangers . He was found to be a corpse , and a green damp mould had covered his cheeks and fore- head , and veiled his eye - balls . He had a pen in his hand , and a log - book lay ...
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... seemed to have passed over it , leaving only to the view inner cliffs , one a glistening white , and the other blue , soft and airy as the July heavens . " Another berg shone like polished silver , dripping with dews , the water ...
... seemed to have passed over it , leaving only to the view inner cliffs , one a glistening white , and the other blue , soft and airy as the July heavens . " Another berg shone like polished silver , dripping with dews , the water ...
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... seemed , to inevitable destruction . A gracious Providence ruled this otherwise : the iceberg , that so lately threatened destruc- tion , was driven completely out of sight to the north - east . " It has been supposed that the ...
... seemed , to inevitable destruction . A gracious Providence ruled this otherwise : the iceberg , that so lately threatened destruc- tion , was driven completely out of sight to the north - east . " It has been supposed that the ...
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abundance animal appearance Arctic Arctic seas attached Basking Shark bear beautiful birds blow boat body called Captain capture coast colour coral coral reef creatures crew curious danger dart deck deep depth distance diving eight escape Esquimaux eyes fearful feet in length fins fish fishermen floating floe frequently grampus Greenland gunwale harpoon head hook huge hundred Hymir ice-fields iceberg immense inches Indian Ocean inhabitants instance island jaws land lighthouse marine mass miles minute molluscs monster mouth navigators nearly Northern seas observed ocean Pacific Ocean pearls pectoral fins perilous pieces Polar Polar bear prey reef regions remarkable resembling rocks Rorqual round sailors Scoresby sea-weeds seal seamen seen shark shells ship shoals shore side skin sometimes species sperm whale spermaceti square miles struck surface swimming tail teeth thick thousand twenty vessel voyage walrus waves whale fishery wind wonderful wounded young zoophytes
Popular passages
Page 31 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 2 - Thou, even thou, art Lord alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all ; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Page 195 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 43 - As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head. The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Page 195 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil : Still as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 349 - All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea : Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
Page 243 - And I had done a hellish thing, And it would work 'em woe: For all averred I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow.
Page 1 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 194 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.
Page 179 - From coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their boughs, where the tides and billows flow; The water is calm and still below, For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air: There with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter...