...ide at the end of a heavy, projecting tim- ber called the cat-head, in the bight of a short, thick chain whose end link is suddenly released by a blow... ... it slip. “Well, sir,” I said in an apologetic tone, “she was going eleven knots very nicely, and I thought she would do for another half-hour or so.”... ...turn over with us, the barque, her decks full of water, her gear flying in bights, ran at some ten knots an hour. We had been driven far south—much fa... ...arque, her decks full of water, her gear flying in bights, ran at some ten knots an hour. We had been driven far south—much farther that way than we h... ...d-gales; a tale of difficulties overcome, of ad- versity defied by a small knot of men upon the great loneliness of the sea; a tale of resource, of co... ..., both gazing ahead, while under their feet the ship rushes at some twelve knots in the direc- tion of the lee shore; and only a couple of miles in fr... ...Banks or along the edges of pack-ice—this one with true aim right into the bight of the Bay of Biscay, that other upon the fiords of Norway, across th... ...ee ships to the strong, muddy, enslaved earth. “You had better put another bight of a hawser astern, Mr. Mate,” is the usual phrase in their mouth. I ... ...rtain exceptional circumstances made me very familiar for a time with that bight in the Span- ish coast which would be enclosed within a straight line...

...fro like tails. I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connecte... ...ron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung be- tween them, rhythmically clinking. Another report from the... ...ing murmur at my ear, ‘Heap of muffs—go to.’ The pilgrims could be seen in knots ges- ticulating, discussing. Several had still their staves in their ... ...ight thing to them we are all done for,’ said the Russian at my elbow. The knot of men with the stretcher had stopped too, halfway to the steamer, as ... ...hoes you could spare?’ He raised one leg. ‘Look.’ The soles were tied with knotted strings sandal-wise un- der his bare feet. I rooted out an old pair...

...ot characterize his strength as massive. It was what might be termed a sinewy, knotty strength, of the kind we ascribe to lean and wiry men, but which... ...p of the dew and relaxed, they were pulled tight again — and that was all. Ten knots, twelve knots, eleven knots, varying from time to time, is the sp... ... a Dane. My father and mother were Danes, and how they ever came to that bleak bight of land on the west coast I do not know. I never heard. Outside o... ...you struggle in my grip. You kick with your legs. Your body draws itself up in knots like a snake’s. Your chest heaves and strains. To live! To live! ... ...alm night. We were out of the Trades, and the Ghost was forging ahead barely a knot an hour. So I tucked a blanket and pillow under my arm and went up... ...gs and feet, pressing the cabin floor with his toes in a clutching sort of way. Knots and ridges and mounds of muscles writhed and bunched under the sk... ...ng down in the boat and uncoiling in order to pass through another knot in the bight, I was soon wet to the skin. The sails did require some cutting, ...

...a beggar in a print by Callot; one-eyed, with great, splay crow’s-feet round the sockets; a knotty squab nose com- ing down over his moustache; a mira... ... the sufferer. There was not only a large crowd immediately around us, but a consider- able knot of saloon passengers leaning over our heads from the ... ...he cabin floor. I was openly jeered and flouted for this eccentric- ity; and a considerable knot would sometimes gather at the door to see my last dis... ...trance; so, whether the wind was north or south, the cotter could make himself a triangular bight of shelter where to set his chair and finish a pipe ... ...heltered places were to be found. Between the black worm-eaten head- lands there are little bights and havens, well screened from the wind and the com...

...pon the durtie ground, Her huge long taile her den all ouerspred, Yet was in knots and many boughtes vpwound, Pointed with mortall sting. Of her there... ...each to deadly shame would driue his foe: The cruell steele so greedily doth bight In tender flesh, that streames of bloud down flow, With which the a... ...nd lifting vp his dreadfull club on hight, All arm’d with ragged snubbes and knottie graine, Him thought at first encounter to haue slaine, But wise a... ...ly backe, Whose wreathed boughts when euer he vnfoldes, And thicke entangled knots adown does slacke. Bespotted all with shields of red and blacke, It... ...nted steele arriuing rudely theare, His harder hide would neither perce, nor bight, But glauncing by forth passed forward right; Yet sore amoued with ... ...ble thyes Of his froth fomy steed, whose courage stout Striuing to loose the knot, that fast him tyes, Himselfe in streighter bandes too rash implyes,... ...am’d with wrath, his raging blade he heft, And.strooke so strongly, that the knotty string Of his huge taile he quite a sunder cleft, Fiue ioynts ther...

...nee In a rich Iewell, and therein entrayld The ends of all their knots, that none might see, How they within their fouldings close enwr... ...on racke. With hundred yron chaines he did him bind, And hundred knots that did him sore constraine: Yet his great yron teeth he still ... ...sdeigne, and shooke His sandy lockes, long hanging downe behind, Knotted in bloud and dust, for griefe of mind, That he in ods of armes... ...n ground? wo worth the man, That first did teach the cursed steele to bight In his owne flesh, and make way to the liuing spright. If e... ...nawing Gealosie out of their sight Sitting alone, his bitter lips did bight, And trembling Feare still to and fro did fly, And found no... ...arose, And her faire lockes, which formerly were bownd Vp in one knot, he low adowne did lose: Which flowing long and thick, her cloth’...

...with snow-white hair Came up to watch us working there. Now there wasn’t a knot which the riggers knew But the old man made it—and better too; Nor the... ...None the less, I never went aloft to carve ‘thout testing all my ropes and knots each morning. We were never far from each other. Benedetto ‘ud sharpe... ...satin one, vandyked at the bottom with spots of morone foil, and the pearl knots, you know, catching up the drapery from the left shoulder. I had poor... ...de a laughing-stock of everything all day, and he’ d hold our lives in the bight of his arm all the besom-black night among they Dutch sands; and we’ ... ...s trade o’ winter nights, ‘T wixt Mardyk Fort and Dunkirk lights On a five-knot tide with the forts a-firing. (All round the Sands!) ‘Before his beard... ...he stands flew fair over them. ‘I cried, “‘W are shot! ‘W are shot!” and a knot of young knights new from Normandy, that had strayed away from the Gra...

...“Bertha Millner” headed to southwest, bowling easily ahead of a good eight-knot breeze. Next came the order “All hands aft!” and Wilbur and his mates ... ...chance, and as the bark rolled down caught the mainyard-brace hanging in a bight over the rail and swung himself to the deck. “Look sharp!” he called,... ...erb, in her wrath at their weakness, their cowardice. Her heavy brows were knotted over her flaming eyes, her hat was gone, and her thick bands of yel... ...e hooks and loops of the tackle than to unfas- ten the tackle itself. “The knots are jammed hard as steel,” declared Moran. “Hand up that cutting-in s... ...ot the beach-combers! There’s a bit of wind, thank God, and we can do four knots to their one, just let us get clear once.” Moran dragged the hammock ... ... aboard. “What now?” shouted Moran, coming forward to meet them, her scowl knotting her flashing eyes together. “Is this ship yours or mine? We’ve don...

...other’ s “What we did on the old Ohio!” Dan interrupted, brushing into the knot of men with a long board on legs. “Get out o’ here, Tom Platt, an’ lea... ... the cluttered decks of a seventy-ton schooner, while behind him, waving a knotted rope, walked, after the manner of an execu- tioner, a boy who yawne... ...Her old-style quarterdeck was some or five feet high, and her rigging flew knotted and tangled like weed at a wharf-end. She was running before the wi... ...when ut seemed right an’ reasonable, and sat down on the deck countin’ the knots, an’ gettin’ her snarled up hijjus. The Marilla she’d struck her gait... ...the matter with the town that it don’t have a first-class hotel, though?” “Bight over there to the left, Pedro. Heaps o’ room for you and your crowd.-...

...nce a fortnight, and it became usual to hear a boy exclaim, either among a knot of fellows or to himself, ‘By jingo, she is a pretty girl!’ on her pas... ...the girl, where she was allowed to squat; and said he, ‘You and I’ll tie a knot, and be friends for life.’ I replied, ‘With pleasure.’ We nodded over ... ...aring. The river stretched to broad lengths; gulls were on the grey water, knots of sea- weed, and the sea-foam curled in advance of us. ‘By jingo!’ T... ...e captain was never after able to release his neck from the hangman’s slip knot. The consequence was that he wore a shirt-collar up to his eyebrows fo... ...Harry Richmond At a turning of the ascent she pointed her whip at the dark knots and lines of the multitude mounting by various paths to behold the ce... ...ye was lifted on me. I saw nothing that moved until a boat shot out of the bight of sultry lake-water, lying close below the dark promontory where I h...

...membrance. HALF vex’d, half pleased, thy love will feel, Shouldst thou her knot or ribbon steal; T o thee they’re much—I won’t conceal; Such self-dece... .... The Spring Oracle. OH prophetic bird so bright, Blossom-songster, cuckoo bight! In the fairest time of year, Dearest bird, oh! deign to hear What a ... ...ared for relieving the wants of those who were naked.’ Then I loosen’d the knots of the cord, and the dressing- gown gave her Which belong’ d to my fa... ...e whole of their lifetime Whose was the skilful hand by which the marriage knot tied was. All this now is chang’d, and with many an excellent custom H... ...eat you to help me out of this trouble 414 Goethe Quickly, and loosen the knot, whose unravelling I am so dreading; For I have not ventured to woo as...

... his brown arms bare to between the elbow and the shoulder, with the loose knot of a looser kerchief lying low on his bare breast in a wilderness of b... ...d, but was formed of the flooring of the room above. This, being very old, knotted, seamed, and beamed, gave a lowering as- pect to the chamber; and r... ...rasts. She was much given to tying up her head in a pocket-handker- chief, knotted under the chin. This head-gear, in conjunction with a pair of glove... ... saying more, and tied the pocket- handkerchief over her head in a tighter knot under her chin. Bella, who was now seated on the rug to warm herself, ... ...tall, the stock, and the keeper, were all as dry as the Desert. Wegg was a knotty man, and a close-grained, with a face carved out of very hard materi... ...on, with as much indif- ference as was compatible with extreme sternness. ‘Bight you are!’ cried Wegg. ‘Then,’ screwing the weight of his body upon hi...

...such of the plans as, in their wisdom, they deemed to he for the best. The knotty point was, however, soon decided; and, on the appointed day, the bro... ...rt staff which up held, on a rude grating framed of old hoops of iron, the knots of pine that composed the fuel, and the light, which glared high, for... ...n of the bass,” and in water nearly twenty feet in depth. A few additional knots were laid on the grating, and the light penetrated to the bot- tom, E... ...wn for a friend; thof it would have been more ship shape like to lower the bight of a rope or running bowline below me, than to seize an old seaman by... ... cast it from him with all his force, and luckily succeeded in drawing its knot close around one of the antlers of the buck. For one instant the skiff... ...eft them securely fastened, I know, for I felt the thongs and examined the knots when I was at the hunt.” “It has been too much for the poor things,” ... ...new topsail with a taut bolt-rope, being snug at the leeches, but all in a bight about the inner cloths,” “Peace—I command you to be silent, sir!” sai...

...It might have tamed a warrior’s heart To view such mockery of his art! The knot-grass fettered there the hand Which once could burst an iron band; Ben... ... Walter Scott “Wo worth the man, That first did teach the cursed steele to bight In his owne flesh, and make way to the living spright!” See also Ezek... .... 242: “Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour’ d forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.”...

...spring line — what’re you about there! Take a turn round that stump with the bight of it! Stand by that stage, now — let her go! Done with the engine... ...d the door.” The boys stretched themselves upon the floor with their eyes to knot holes in the planking, and lay waiting, in a misery of fear. “They’v... ...r, the result of the ceaseless water drip of centuries. Under the roof vast knots of bats had packed themselves together, thousands in a bunch; the l...

... take in the squat figure, the scanty, dusty brown hair drawn into a tight knot at the back of the head. She looked quite young. With a distinct catch... ...m speaking of, the most innocent of adventurers cast out by the sea in the bight of this bay, almost within sight from this very window. “He did not k...

... home, and from this depended, sustained a little insecurely by frayed and knotted blind-cord, Parload’s hanging bookshelves, planks painted over with... ...siness, was chilled and checked. Numbers of men stood about the streets in knots and groups, as corpuscles gather and catch in the blood-vessels in th... ...of the policemen’s faces, the combative headlines of the local papers, the knots of picket- ers who scrutinized any one who passed near the silent, sm... ...and not so quickly but that several men hurried past me to join the little knot holding up the car. Lord Redcar, in his big furry overcoat, towered up... ...ve seen, the city of theaters and meeting-places, the City of the Sunlight Bight, and the new city that is still called Utah; and dominated by its obs...

...sket containing the white bread, the mutton, and the bottles, were all corded together in a very elaborate system of knots, and I looked on the result... ...h and slacken by the way, even a very careless traveller should have seen disaster brewing. That elaborate system of knots, again, was the work of too... ...he fire caught readily . Out of an upper window Du Chayla and his men lowered themselves into the garden by means of knotted sheets; some escaped acro... ... life upon the ruins of the old. Thus they partake of the nature of many different trees; and even their prickly top-knots, seen near at hand against ... ... valley was full of the lowing sound of herdsmen’s horns as they recalled the flocks into the stable, when I spied a bight of meadow some way below th...

... he spoke, the acorn dropped out of his mouth and rolled down the roof, of course, but he didn’t care; his mind was all on the thing he had struck. It... ...bent to their work and hove the cable short, then got the anchor home, and our bark moved off with a stately stride, and soon was bowling along at abo... ...diately followed by the glad shout: “Land aboard the starboard transom!” “Saved!” cried the captain. “Jump ashore and take a turn around a tree and pa...

...ater reflecting the flushed sky in the foreground of the living picture, a knot of urchins were casting stones, and watching the expansion of the ripp... ..., and making a loop in the air of her thread and deftly catching it into a knot with her needle, seemed to bowstring him into the bargain. For the ter... ...on, with as much indif- ference as was compatible with extreme sternness. ‘Bight you are!’ cried Wegg. ‘Then,’ screwing the weight of his body upon hi...

...creed and haunted by the darkest super- stitions. Yet so it was; and, as we reached the bight of shelter and could breathe again, I saw the man’s eyes... ...hough it appalled, though it shocked and sickened me, was yet not of power to break the knot of my infatuation. When the cries had ceased, there came ... ...have no interior.’ But the Doctor was still scrutinising the little pagan, his eyebrows knotted and uplifted. ‘What is your name?’ he asked. ‘Jean-Mar...

...and the swift great passen- ger vessels, very big and steady, doing thirty knots an hour or more, will trace long wakes as they go dwindling out athwa... ...eral and progressive Roman Empire that spread from the Arctic Ocean to the Bight of Benin, and was to know no Decline and Fall, and Mahomet, instead o...

...e had thrust The Pageant of Alexander into his handbag on the night of his Bight from V enice; but since then he had never looked at it. Too many memo... ...limpses of the Moon swered coldly; and she understood by his tone that the knot was cut, and that at that moment he almost hated her. She turned away,...

...ities of ‘‘old junk,’’ which the sailors unlay, after drawing out the yarns, knot them together, and roll them up in balls. These ‘‘rope yarns’’ are c... ...employment, during a great part of the time, for three hands in drawing and knotting yarns, and making, spun yarn. Another method of employing ... ...ce - 11 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana on a yard, and could knot my reef point as well as anybody. I obeyed the order to lay* aloft w... ...ays able to raise the cry of ‘‘Haul out to leeward’’ before them, and having knotted our points, would slide down the shrouds and back stays, and sing... ...a little raised, so as to have a good swing at him, and held in his hand the bight of - 52 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana a thick, st... ...ocks which run out into the sea. Just where we landed was a small cove, or ‘‘bight,’’ which gave us, at high tide, a few square feet of sand beach bet... ...and, sure enough, she was dragging her anchors, and drifting down into the bight of the bay. Without waiting for the captain, (for there was no one ... ...o leeward; and, owing to the long dry weather, the lee rigging hung in large bights, at every lurch. One of the main top gallant shrouds had parted; a... ..., brought the two boys up to it, making them ‘‘toe the mark;’’ then made the bight of a rope fast to a belaying pin, and stretched it across the deck...

...uese and half Malay, ran out and he was forced to take string and show the knots that he would recommend. He controlled his own gang of tacklemen—mys-... ...rk and wait instructions. The gangs poured by in the dusk; men stopping to knot a loin-cloth or fasten a sandal; gang-foremen shouting to their subord... ...- ers ere their children are born—Krishna the W ell-beloved. He stooped to knot up his long wet hair, and the parrot fluttered to his shoulder. “Fleet... ...!” “ Ay, all save one that makes love in the hearts of men,” said Krishna, knotting his girdle. “It is but a little time to wait, and ye shall know if... ...he Day’s Work precious little for seventy-five pounds head. We’ve made two knots this last hour and a quarter! Rather humiliating for eight hundred ho... ...that volunteer before he knew what was in store, and hove him over, in the bight of my life- line. So I e’en hauled him upon the sag of it, hand over ...

...e a bleedin’ toff, For I got four niggers to carry me off, As I lay in the bight of a canvas trough, When the Widow give the party. “What was the ... ...r House stand together and the pillars do not fall. Draw now the threefold knot firm on the ninefold bands, And the Law that ye make shall be law afte... ... less weight an’ larger power: There’ll be the loco-boiler next an’ thirty knots an hour! Thirty an’ more. What I ha’ seen since ocean-steam began Le... ...s abeach, cool pelt and proper fur, When the Northern Light drove into the bight and the sea-mist drove with her. The Baltic called her men and weighe... ...m out the dripping oil-bags to skin the deep’s unrest — And you aren’t one knot the nearer to the Islands of the Blest! But when you’re threshing, cri... ...irst expansions. It paid, I tell you, it paid, When we came with our nine-knot freighters and collared the long-run trade! And they asked me how I di...

...eadway he can. I think that the man is at a dead set who has got through a knot hole or gate way where his sledge load of furniture cannot follow him... ...at cool and airy apartment, sur rounded by the rough brown boards full of knots, and rafters with the bark on high overhead. My house never pleased m... ...rt, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go... ...e had anything to say. “Tell the tailors,” said he, “to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch.” His companion’s pr...

... headway he can. I think that the man is at a dead set who has got through a knot hole or gateway where his sledge load of furniture cannot follow him... ...n that cool and airy apartment, surrounded by the rough brown boards full of knots, and rafters with the bark on high over head. My house never please... ...part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and ... ...he had any thing to say. “Tell the tailors,” said he, “to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch.” His companion’s p...

...head. He paused for a moment, and looked at the bronzed bull throat, naked and knotty, and swelling to a deep and steady pulse. The slaver dripped dow... ...k, where a big spruce tree stood by itself. Slackwater Charley put a hangman’s knot in the end of a hauling line, and the noose was slipped over Lecl`... ... with his left hand movements, but that did not prevent his using the arm. The bight of the pack rope under the dead man’s shoulders en abled him to ... ...d swiftly. Then there would come a flash of his hands as he looped the weaver’s knot and released the bobbin. There was nothing difficult about weaver’s... ...ng centuries long in a single night at tying an endless succession of weaver’s knots. Some of the boys shirked, wasting time and machinery by not repl... ...to the knees; and the moccasin strings were like rods of steel all twisted and knotted as by some conflagration. For a moment he tugged with his numb fi...

...an otherwise. July 25. This morning the gale had diminished to a mere ten- knot breeze, and the sea had gone down with it so consider- ably that we we... ...ted from his journal of that date. “The wind soon fresh- ened to an eleven-knot breeze, and we embraced this oppor- tunity of making to the west,; bei... ...boats, with outriggers, filled with savages, and coming round the southern bight of the harbor. They appeared to have no arms except short clubs, and ... ...er, after one or two unsuccessful and dangerous at- tempts at reaching the knot (having to hold on with his left hand while he labored to undo the fas... ... me, in fact, to a T. The clergyman, who merely pretended to tie the fatal knot, was a boon companion of Talbot’s, and no priest. He was an excellent ...