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...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... ...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... ...a run up with the glasses and raise some of the boats. We’ve made at least ten knots, and we’re going twelve or thirteen now. The old girl knows how ... ... at a right angle, so madly she raced, pounding through the sea at a seventeen knot gait — “‘Sky hooting through the brine,”’ as Wolf Larsen quoted C... ...quoted Chapter XXV 157 while gazing at her. We were not making more than nine knots, but the fog bank was very near. A puff of smoke broke from the M... ...hrouds, stays, all washed about and back and forth and through, and twined and knotted by the sea. I cut no more than was necessary, and what with pas...

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...a and folding her white wings for a rest. The next thing I saw was the top-knot of silver hair sur- mounting Captain Ellis’ smooth red face, which wou... ...ot of her decks was impressed indelibly on my brain, to the very grain and knots of the planks. Y et, all of a sudden, I fell clean over something, la... ...pleasantly the words: “I think he has fainted, sir—” The little motionless knot of men stirred, with low murmurs of relief. “I’ve got him under the ar... ...; and at least five naval surgeons had clambered on board. They stood in a knot gazing up and down the empty main deck, then looked aloft—where not a ...

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...hered in one or two groups— one a little crowd towards Woking, the other a knot of people in the direction of Chobham. Evidently they shared my 19 H ... ...Woking, seemed to grow, and I heard now a faint murmur from it. The little knot of people towards Chobham dispersed. There was scarcely an intimation ... ...f the pit, advancing from the direction of Horsell, I noted a little black knot of men, the foremost of whom was waving a white flag. This was the Dep... ...ple with the white flag at its apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small vertical black shapes upon the black ground. As the green smo... ...s these folks came out by twos and threes upon the open, they found little knots of people talking excitedly and peer- ing at the spinning mirror over... ...narrowly escaped an accident at the corner of the road to Pyrford, where a knot of people stood with their backs to me. They said nothing to me as I p... ...of some of the houses, the stirring movement of packing in others, and the knot of soldiers standing on the bridge over the railway and staring down t...

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...d duck, and passed ever and again by huge, illuminated steamers running many knots, and heralding their approach by strains of music. The contrast bet... ...ny joined to discuss these who otherwise would hold their tongues. One small knot had no better occupation than to worm out of me my name; and the mor... ...d. There were no emigrants direct from Europe – save one German family and a knot of Cornish miners who kept grimly by themselves, one reading the New... ...the heroism required is that of patience. There is no cutting of the Gordian knots of life; each must be smilingly unravelled. To be honest, to be kin... ...per, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the knot that we cut by some fine heady quarrel-scene in private life, or, in...

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...ed it, but I admired it with an intensity that I can not describe. A little knot of playmates—they must have been beautiful, for I see them now—were ... ...s and softly carried the body within doors. Others fell off or slunk away in knots of two or three, others whis pered together in groups, and before ... ...ut. I have reason to believe that my barber, who is the chief authority of a knot of gossips, who congregate every evening at a small tobacconist’s ha... ...he idea that the child was lost or stolen. All my thoughts were bound up and knotted together in the one absorbing necessity of hiding what I had done... ...ike so many black pits, in every one of which ill favoured fellows lurked in knots of three or four; some standing upright against the wall, lying in ... ..., invading, with their pleasant harmony, the silence of the time. For then a knot of youthful creatures gather round my fireside, and the room re echo...

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...od and hoop, And when the patch was worn; And legs and arms with love-knots gay. About me leaped and laughed The modish Cupid of the day, ... ... Harriet wore her favourite pistachio ribbon round her cap and as a breast-knot, and her cheeks bore token of one of the various washes with which she... ...lace between his colleagues and the grandees. He was not listened to. Each knot of speakers was becoming louder in debate, and Dr. Boltby’s voice was ... ... for her, a creamy piece of white satin, and a most elabo- rate pattern of knots of roses, lilacs, hyacinths, and labur- nums, at which her heart sank... ... of her own sweet fingers’ work.’ And sure enough, I knew it, for it was a knot of the very ribbon you had in your hair the day I came to talk to your... ...lent and respectable couples who had not been known to be married till the knot had been tied for several days or weeks—so that there was nothing in t... ... were set out in order. The ladies sat in rows, and the gentlemen stood in knots and talked, all in full dress, resplendent figures in bril- liant vel... ...ction, a certain lock that he bore on a chain next his heart, and a little knot, surrounded with diamonds, in a ring, which he had been still wearing ... ... real true parson notwithstanding, and I’ d never leave your side till the knot was tied fast. Then you would laugh at my lady, and be one of the firs...

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...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... ...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...

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...it there to remind himself of something; as T om Noddy, in the farce, ties knots in his pocket handkerchief. For the last two days, we had seen great ... ...g over any vineyard walk, or turning al most any corner, will come upon a knot of players in full cry. It is observable that most men have a propensi... ...d; and the withered old women, with their wiry grey hair twisted up into a knot on the top of the head, like a pad to carry loads on, are so intensely... ...: and grinning hideously at the ladies. Dotted here and there, were little knots of friars (Frances cani, or Cappuccini, in their coarse brown dresse... ...is the venerable, or patriarchal model. He carries a long staff; and every knot 120 Pictures from Italy and twist in that staff I have seen, faithful... ... of the roof. Then my tired memory comes out upon a flight of steps, where knots of people are asleep, or basking in the light; and strolls away, amon... ...ick gallery to sit in, with very little windows with very small patches of knotty glass in them, and all the doors that open from it (a dozen or two) ...

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...e tack, dangling to and fro in the draft through the cracks at the sash. The knots of blue ribbons appeared like violated flowers. The fire in the sto... ...and the figure of a woman appeared upon the threshold. Her grey hair fell in knotted masses about her shoulders. Her face was crimsoned and wet with p... ...e was leaning against the wall and swearing. Blood stood upon bruises on his knotty forearms where they had scraped Maggie: A Girl of the Streets 31 ... ...e her forever,” she cried. In the darkness of the hallway Jimmie discerned a knot of women talking volubly. When he strode by they paid no attention t...

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...his hat and a small nickel-plated badge on his fat bosom, emerged from the knot supporting a Chinaman who had been stabbed in the eye and was bleeding... ...came out upon a field of aching, snowy lime rolled in sheets, twisted into knots, riven with rents, and diamonds, and stars, stretching for more than ...

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...arped on this; with this our banquets rang; Our dances broke and buzzed in knots of talk; Nothing but this; my very ears were hot To hear them: knowl... ...very face she looked on justify it) The general foe. More soluble is this knot, By gentleness than war. I want her love. What were I nigher this alt...

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... 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... ...Now, what,’ pursued the old fellow, in an inquisitive manner, carrying his knotted stick in his left arm as if it were a baby, ‘what do they allow you... ...by the singularity of the question. ‘He hasn’t,’ repeated the other to his knotted stick, as he gave it a hug; ‘he hasn’t got—ha!—ha!—to keep it warm!... ...ces it had become gnarled and riven, according to the manner of old trees; knots started out of it; and here and there it seemed to twist itself into ... ... might see her. He had nothing with him but his boat, and came on apace. A knot of those amphibious human-creatures who appear to have some mysterious...

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...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... ...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... ...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... ..., With sacred rites and vowes for euer to abyde. His owne two hands the holy knots did knit, That none but death for euer can deuide; His owne two han...

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...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... ...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...

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...5 Nor less in springtime when on southern banks The shining sun had from his knot of leaves Decoy’d the primrose flower, and when the Vales And woods w... ...yet the end Was not ignoble. Oh! when I have hung Above the raven’s nest, by knots of grass 345 And half inch fissures in the slippery rock But ill sus... ...rs and haranguers, hubbub wild, And hissing factionists with ardent eyes, In knots, or pairs, or single, ant like swarms Of builders and subverters, e... ...riot—and my heart was all 125 Given to the people, and my love was theirs. A knot of military officers That to a regiment appertained which then Was st... ...f youthful lovers—thus 560 My story may begin—oh, balmy time In which a love knot on a lady’s brow Is fairer than the fairest star in heaven! To such ...

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...e fastest steam- ers belonging to the company, always making more than ten knots an hour between Brindisi and Suez, and nine and a half between Suez a... .... 43—the best in the harbour.” “Does she go fast?” “Between eight and nine knots the hour. Will you look at her?” “Yes.” “Your honour will be satisfie... ...nably blackened, and gowns crossed with silken scarfs, tied in an enormous knot behind an ornament which the modern Parisian ladies seem 104 Around t... ...much in the way.” “Is your vessel a swift one?” “Between eleven and twelve knots. The Henrietta, well known.” “Will you carry me and three other perso... ...manoeuvre simply glorious. The captain had said “between eleven and twelve knots,” and the Henrietta confirmed his prediction. If, then—for there were...

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... ebb. Nothing disturbed the stillness of the cottage save the chatter of a knot of sparrows on the eaves; one might fancy scandal and rumour to be no ... ...ground were consumed in a creeping movement of ruddy heat, as if they were knots of red worms, and above shone imaginary fiery faces, tongues hanging f... ...yellow beside a green — green beside a yel low. From the recesses of this knot of foliage the loud notes of three cuckoos were resounding through the... ...u see. Your light fingers were more eager than mine. I wish it had been the knot of knots, which there’s no untying!’ This was worse and worse. She sta... ...ould know better,’ said Coggan. ‘Our mis’ess has too much sense under they knots of black hair to do such a mad thing.’ ‘You see, he’s not a coarse, i... ...affron by contrast with the greenish whiteness outside, streamed through a knot hole in the folding doors. Gabriel looked in. An unusual picture met h... ...rick suddenly brightened with the brazen glare of shining majolica — every knot in every straw was visible. On the slope in front of him appeared two ... ...f a man at work there, whose soul seemed concentrated on tying a bothering knot in no time, what was going on. ‘The Royal Hippodrome Performance of Tu... ...it’s nothing. I want it done as well as you can, please. Is there any late knot in fashion, Oak?’ ‘I don’t know, sir,’ said Oak. His tone had sunk to ...

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...ind and its four hundred horse power, it was going at the rate of thirteen knots. Had it not been for the superior strength of the hull of the Moravia... ...f in 15º 12' long. and 45º 37' lat. She was going at the speed of thirteen knots and a half. At seventeen minutes past four in the afternoon, whilst t... ...nder this the Abraham Lin- coln attained the mean speed of nearly eighteen knots and a third an hour—a considerable speed, but, neverthe- less, insuff... ...he waves. It made the round of the frigate, which was then making fourteen knots, and enveloped it with its electric rings like luminous dust. Then it... ...eau- tiful things. The course of the Nautilus was E.N.E., her speed twelve knots, the depth below the surface between twenty-five and thirty fathoms. ... ...soft flesh. After several fruitless attempts the crew tried to pass a slip-knot round the body of the mollusc. The 250 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea n...

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... forth, as Scrooge had seen them often. The Spirit stopped beside one little knot of business men. Observing that the hand was pointed to them, Scroog... ...r the greater convenience of opening it, and having unfastened a great many knots, dragged out a large and heavy roll of some dark stuff. ‘What do yo...

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... forth, as Scrooge had seen them often. The Spirit stopped beside one little knot of business men. Observing that the hand was pointed to them, Scroog... ...or the greater convenience of opening it, and having unfastened a great many knots, dragged out a large and heavy roll of some dark stuff. “What do yo...