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..., hell!” In a small, tossing group, the three men edged for posi tions like frigates contemplating battle. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets 38 “Well, w...

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... Grandfather, “Sir William Phips quarrelled with the captain of an English frigate, and also with the collector of Boston. Being a man of violent temp... ...uisburg. The other was the Marquis de la Maison Forte, captain of a French frigate which had been taken by Com 82 TheWholeHistoryofGrandfather sChai...

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...shes to get rid of, been six months on board Captain Frederick Wentworth’s frigate, the Laconia; and from the Laconia he had, under the influence of h... ...d luck in my passage home the next autumn, to fall in with the very French frigate I wanted. I brought her into Plymouth; and here an- other instance ... ...f a man-of-war; I speak, you know, of the higher rates. When you come to a frigate, of course, you are more confined; though any reason- 57 Jane Aust...

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... give you a look in and see how you get on.” The Dido was one of the smart frigates on the China station—and five-and- thirty years make a big slice o...

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... these captures. But Gaspar Ruiz refused to treat with us. Then an English frigate proceeded to the bay, and her captain, doctor, and two lieutenants ... ...ed Spanish officer,’ he added in a calm voice. “The captain of the English frigate then took the opportunity to inform him gently that Lima had fallen...

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...o more’ with me, that time when I got left behind on shore by the Blanche, frigate.” He made light of what was before him, which was but a day’s journ...

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...endid poverty at best. Painted for sight, and essenced for the smell, Like frigates fraught with spice and cochineal, Sail in the ladies: how each pir...

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...ischief.—Next Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint _80 T raced over them in blue and ye... ...heavy veil Of battle-smoke—then victory—victory! For, as we thought, three frigates from Algiers Bore down from Naxos to our aid, but soon ...

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...mpest in the soul and flame in the blood” like Lieutenant Byelosov in the “Frigate Hope.” Women’ s hearts were “devoured” by them. The adjective appli...

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...parents. The wedding was hurried on by Captain Armytage’s appointment to a frigate on the coast of South- ern America, where he had to join at once, i...

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...pretty Virlandaise and I, along the harbour where the two- deckers and the frigate slept peaceably by the red roofing of the warehouse, by the green b...

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...ces to their various mysteries, hung in frames upon the walls; the T artar Frigate under weigh, was on the plates; outlandish shells, seaweeds, and mo... ...; and the presence of Florence in the back parlour, brightened the T artar frigate on the wall. Half an hour ago Walter, for his life, would have hard... ...e hands of Uncle Sol’ s chronometer, and moved them faster than the Tartar frigate ever went before the wind. Be this as it may, the visitors had a co... ...ll the choicest moveables out of the parlour, inclusive even of the Tartar frigate, which the Captain hung up over the chimney-piece with such extreme...

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...ere 50 An Outcast of the Islands changed. So changed that, when a Spanish frigate appeared before the island and a demand was sent to the Sultan to d...

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...uire introduced us. ‘My grandson, Harry Richmond, Captain William Bulsted, frigate Polyphemus; Captain Bulsted, Master Augustus Temple.’ For the sake ... ...watched our lithe Dalmatians slide along the drenched decks of the V erona frigate. At night it blew a gale. I could imagine it to have been sent prov...

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... While the Pope was thus making his entry, the king crossed the water in a frigate and went to the lodging the Pope had just quitted, in order to go t...

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...ave told everywhere how Gigonnet gave you for six thousand francs an ivory frigate, and made your valet buy it back for three hundred in order to sell... ...sent circumstances so well that Maxime has forever lost the command of his frigate. In short, I can’t tell you one-half that is said; you have supplie...

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...ribly busy state, finishing up engines for innumerable gun-boats and steam frigates for the ensuing campaign.’ From half-past eight in the morning til...

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...f Captain Wemyss by mentioning that he had read prayers on the deck of his frigate ‘agreeably to the articles of war’! Y et there is no doubt – and it...

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...eed on, the expedition was prepared, and on the 7th July the “Belle Poule” frigate, in company with “La Favorite” corvette, quitted Toulon harbor. A c... ... of the infame Hudson,” says a French writer, were passengers on board the frigate. Marchand, Denis, Pierret, Novaret, his old and faithful servants, ... ...hen the “Dolphin” English schooner gave her one- and-twenty guns; then the frigate returned the compli- ment of the “Dolphin” schooner; then she blaze... ...and aide-de-camp of the Gover- nor of St. Helena, came on board the French frigate, and brought his father’s best respects to his Royal High- ness. Th... ...the expedition, would be ready to receive it and con- duct it on board his frigate. A car drawn by four horses, decked with funereal emblems, had been... ...ately squared her masts and unfurled her colors. All the manoeuvers of the frigate were immediately followed by the other ves- sels. Our mourning had ... ...r salutes were 15 Thackeray fired during the passage from the quay to the frigate; the cutter advancing very slowly, and surrounded by the other boat... ... moment, the vessels fired a last salute with all their artillery, and the frigate took in her flags, keeping up only her flag at the stern and the ro... ...II. ON THE VOYAGE FROM ST. HELENA TO PARIS. On the 18th October the French frigate quitted the is- land with its precious burden on board. His Royal H...

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...s to be noted that, from our insular situation, and the multi- tude of our frigates disposable for the rapid transmission of intelligence, rarely did ... ...own one of these, with the fiery pace of a quarrel from a cross-bow, ran a frigate right 131 athwart our course. “Are they mad?” some voice exclaimed... ...that vast sweeping toga, filling with a strong gale like the mainsail of a frigate. Conceive the roars with which this magnificent figure would be rec... ...gher civilization. The next relay on that line of road, the next repeating frigate, is Cowper in his poem on Conversa- 164 tion. He speaks of four o’...

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...e President (drill-ship, then, of the Naval Reserve), used to lie with her frigate side rub- bing against the stone of the quay, above all these hulls... ...d judge of what was expected in those days from men and ships. A brilliant frigate captain, a man of sound judgment, of dashing brav- ery and of seren... ...f our nation.” These are his words, and they are true. The dash- ing young frigate captain, the man who in middle age was nothing loth to give chase s...

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...g floating as their ensign. There were thirteen ships of the line and four frigates, and, of these, three were 80-gun ships, and one, towering high ab...

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...nd walls of his carricks, ships, galle- ons, galleys, brigantines, foists, frigates, crears, barques, floats, pinks, pinnaces, hoys, ketches, capers, ... ...hip, two barks, three sloops, five ships, eight pinks, four yawls, and six frigates making towards us, sent by the good people of the neighbouring isl... ...r the command of Colonel Maul-chitterling, and those on board the Vine-tub frigate, under the command of Colonel Cut-pudding the younger. I will ease ... ...it with fresh powder, which was soon done. The gunners of the other ships, frigates, galle- ons, and galleys of the fleet, hearing us fire, gave every... ...n had hardly said those words ere he perceived sev- enty-eight galleys and frigates just arriving at the port. So he hied him thither to learn some ne...

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...id to have become rudimentary in function, though not in structure. In the frigate-bird, the deeply-scooped membrane between the toes shows that struc... ... place. Hence it will cause him no surprise that there should be geese and frigate-birds with webbed feet, either living on the dry land or most rarel... ..., we can hardly believe that the webbed feet of the upland goose or of the frigate-bird are of special use to these birds; we cannot believe that the ... ...spicarpa Asses, striped 435 Charles Darwin Ateuchus Audubon, on habits of frigate-bird; on variation in birds’-nests; on heron eating seeds Australia... ... of Fries on species in large genera being closely allied to other species Frigate-bird Frogs on islands Fruit-trees, gradual improvement of; in Unite...

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... along the shore, and to see if there was no creek where I might lay up my frigate in safety , so as to have her again if I wanted her. In about three... ... be supposed retired into my castle, after my late voyage to the wreck, my frigate laid up and secured under water, as usual, and my condition restore... ...a boat to go back to his own nation; and, accordingly, I carried him to my frigate, which lay on the other side of the island, and having cleared it o...

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... island made, A pillar fair was pight beside the main, Near which a little frigate floating laid, The marble white the prince did long behold, And thi... ... Where lie the nymphs on moss and ivy soft; No anchor there needs hold her frigate still, Nor cable twisted sure, though breaking oft: Into this deser... ...hreshold stands: But when the western seas had quenched those fires, Their frigate struck against the shore and sands; Then spoke their guide, “The la...

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...have taken away as many as seven hundred, and that the ship’s company of a frigate some years since brought down in one day two hundred tortoises to t... ... they have stolen from the neighbouring beach. Overhead, numerous gannets, frigate-birds, and terns, rest on the trees; and the wood, from the many ne...

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...ange faces they do not know whom to trust. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 80 Our frigate takes fire, The other asks if we demand quarter? If our colors ar...

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... Barber, has been pressed on board the 115 Boswell’s Life of Johnson Stag Frigate, Captain Angel, and our lexicogra- pher is in great distress. He sa...

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...ll the choicest moveables out of the parlour, inclusive even of the Tartar frigate, which the Captain hung up over the chimney-piece with such extreme...

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..., the guns of which are so big that they only stand on one deck, whereas a frigate would have them on two decks, and a line-of-battle ship on three. O... ...ttle ships there will, I suppose, soon be none, as the “Warrior” is only a frigate. We went over the “Pensacola,” and I must say she was very nice, pr... ...o the hands of the President for four years; or the presence of an English frigate in the St. Juan channel might be held to do so. I say that such a t...

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...he Swiss Guards through his cockade. Three days afterwards, as the gallant frigate, the “Repudia- tor,” was sailing out of Brest Harbor, the gigantic ... ...eek, and once more betook himself to splice the taffrail. Though the brave frigate lay off Havre de Grace, she was not idle. The gallant Bowie and his... ...tonished French waters. Her actions with the “Dettingen” and the “Elector” frigates form part of our country’s history; their defence—it may be said w... ...he Union, and the “Dettingen” fall down the river in tow of the Republican frigate. Another action Bowie contemplated: the boldest and most daring per... ...o strike a blow which should shake the British power in its centre. That a frigate of the size of the “Repudiator” should enter the harbor unnoticed, ... ...rts- mouth, having passed the challenges of the “Thetis” and the “Amphion” frigates, and the “Polyanthus” brig. There had been on that day great feast... ...se ship, the “Richard Cobden,” of 120 guns, was taken by the “Belle-Poule” frigate of 36; on which occasion forty-five other ships of war and 79 steam... ...rigate of 36; on which occasion forty-five other ships of war and 79 steam-frigates struck their colors to about one-fourth the number of the heroic F...

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...urs. It was all about himself, and the Peruvian government, and the Dublin frigate, and Lord James Townshend, and President Jackson, and the ship ... ...nd successor Riho Riho, who died in England, and was brought to Oahu in the frigate Blonde, Captain Lord Byron, and whose funeral he remembered perf... ...s said he was no shipmate. He had been a petty officer on board the British frigate Dublin, Capt. Lord James Townshend, and had great ideas of his o... ... which is one of the short- est on record. There, they left the Brandywine frigate, and other smaller American ships of war, and the English frigat... ... and the forecastle was the ‘‘betweendecks,’’ as high as the gun deck of a frigate; being six feet and a half, under the beams. These between decks ... ...boat’s crew of the Ayacucho said that when they left Callao, a large French frigate and the American frigate Brandywine, which were lying there, we... ... were lying there, were going outside to have a battle, and that the English frigate Blonde was to be umpire, and see fair play. Here was important n... ...th time, the story of his coming ashore at New York, from the Constellation frigate, after a cruise of four years round the Horn,—being paid off with... ... twice, and they were all glad enough to see the last of it. The Brandywine frigate, also, in her passage round, had sixty days off the Cape, and los...

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... island made, A pillar fair was pight beside the main, Near which a little frigate floating laid, The marble white the prince did long behold, And thi... ... Where lie the nymphs on moss and ivy soft; No anchor there needs hold her frigate still, Nor cable twisted sure, though breaking oft: Into this deser... ...hreshold stands: But when the western seas had quenched those fires, Their frigate struck against the shore and sands; Then spoke their guide, “The la...

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...tryman by birth, among the oppressors of his native land. The captain of a frigate in the harbor, and two or three civil officers under the Crown, wer...

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...l him—or wants us to buy him. Ha! I think she wants us to send a couple of frigates, and threaten bombard- ment of the capital, if they don’t take her...

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...d along the Shore and to see if there was no Creek where I might lay up my Frigate in Safety, so as to have her again if I wanted her; in about three ... ...d into my Castle, after my late V oyage to the Daniel Defoe 141 Wreck, my Frigate laid up, and secur’d under Water, as usual, and my Condition restor... ...m a Boat to go back to his own Nation; and accordingly I carry’d him to my Frigate which lay on the other Side of the Island, and having clear’d it of...