... and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things. A person might suppose, from ...
... some doubts of this voyage. Of course I knew, without being told, that there were peculiar difficulties and dangers in it, a long way over and above those ...
... permission to treat him to a tolerably correct Cutter there was in the window, in order that such a handsome boy might not grow up with a lubberly idea ...
... the feet of Smithick and Watersby. The riggers were out of that ship in a fortnight's time, and we had begun taking in cargo. John was always aboard, ...
... help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time. Not but what he was ...
... without a ray of light, into a dense black bandage put as close before the eyes as it could be, without touching them. I doubled the look-out, ...
... for my feet were badly swelled with the deck. There was a little swing-lamp alight in my cabin. I thought, as I looked at it before shutting my eyes, ...
... I had my trumpet in my hand, and, after directing and encouraging them in this till it was done, I hailed first John Steadiman, and then my second ...
... far out of the inner vortex of her going down, when, by the blue-light which John Mullion still burnt in the bow of the Surf-boat, we saw her lurch, ...
... on to sit next me. As to old Mr. Rarx, I put him in the bow, as far from us as I could. And I put some of the best men near us in order that if I should ...
... or being picked up by some vessel-I say in the hope, though I had little hope of either deliverance. I then sang out to him, so as all might hear, that ...
... always got the impression that he did not know what sound he had been making, but that he thought he had been humming a tune. Our sufferings from ...
... for the smith or armourer, who was sitting next the old man, to bear. He took him by the throat and rolled him under the thwarts, where he lay still ...
... was received with a cheerful satisfaction that warmed my heart within me and I do not say too much when I say that those two periods in the four-and-twenty ...
... with the great waves. Sixteen nights and fifteen days, twenty nights and nineteen days, twenty-four nights and twenty-three days. So the time went on. ...
... in her bows. What does it mean? says Rames to me in a quavering, trembling sort of voice. Do they signal a sail in sight? Hush, for God's sake! ...
... I take it, by the exhausting effects of previous anxiety and grief. Our provisions-if I may give that name to what we had left-were reduced to the rind ...
... or skill. Both the one and the other had now been starved out of us for days and days together. At sunset the wind suddenly dropped, but the sea, ...
... on them in ragged streaks through the gaps between the men standing or sitting above them. The first face I made out was the face of Miss Coleshaw, ...
... at the time, and each new part of his stories would be eagerly anticipated by the reading public. Source: Wikipedia You can also find on Amazon Dickens: A ...