... 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... ...ng rough man in anger, to do something forcible, he now clutched his knife overhand, and struck downward with it at the end of every succeeding senten...

...pt upon them, and cut him out. Tom and he fought their way through another knot of them, and sent them flying, and came over to where I was beginning ... ...table matter out of a swamp, or weeds out of the river, or an old porter’s-knot from England, I don’t think any new specta- tor could have said. Y et,... ...g its revenge upon the two decoy-boats, both of which it had come up with, overhand, and sent to the bottom with all on board. He stood telling how th...

...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... ...e had combined Disko’ s peculiar stoop at the wheel, Long Jack’ s swinging overhand when the lines were hauled, Manuel’ s round-shouldered but effecti... ...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...

... 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... ...y slept. When one is 153 A Tramp Abroad in one of those villages it seems spacious, and its houses seem high and not out of proportion to the mountai...

... 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... ...ng rough man in anger, to do something forcible, he now clutched his knife overhand, and struck downward with it at the end of every succeeding senten...

...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... ...or then, and was out with us; he can tell all about it, too; though he was overhand for the tomahawk, never firing more than once or twice, before he ... ...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... ... 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,” ...

...al ere morn — The stench of the marshes — the raw, piercing smell When the overhand stabbing-cut silenced the yell — The oaths of his Irish that surge... ...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... ...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...

...vements, The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their massive arms, Overhand the hammers swing, overhand so slow, overhand so sure, They do n... ...hile the elder sister winds it off in a ball, and stops now and then for the knots, The one year wife is recovering and happy having a week ago borne ... ...depths also. Earth! you seem to look for something at my hands, Say, old top knot, what do you want? Man or woman, I might tell how I like you, but ca... ...r the first time the lips of a determin’d man. O the puzzle, the thrice tied knot, the deep and dark pool, all untied and illumin’d! O to speed where ... ...s to be evil, I am he who knew what it was to be evil, I too knitted the old knot of contrariety, Blabb’d, blush’d, resented, lied, stole, grudg’d, Ha... ...ng, these things gathering, On interior rivers by night in the glare of pine knots, steamboats wooding up, Sunlight by day on the valley of the Susque... ...nd there by the anvil, Behold thy sturdy blacksmiths swinging their sledges, Overhand so steady, overhand they turn and fall with joyous clank, Like a...

...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... ... fine afternoon, our vessel going quietly along at the rate of four or five knots, and a pilot fish, the sure precursor of a shark, swimming along... ... and sides are black and dirty from taking in cargo; riggers’ seizings and overhand knots in place of nice seamanlike work; and everything, to a s...

...en the Indians were about to upset his barrel of turpentine, seized a pine knot and flourishing it, swore so resolutely that he would kill the first w... ...e forgotten; “Strangers come to build a tower, And throw their ashes overhand; Some rusted swords appear in dust; One, bending forward, sa...