Belgravia: A London Magazine, Volume 63Chatto and Windus, 1887 |
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... it was sicken- ing and affrighting . The heads of the Andean peaks of black water looked tall enough to brush the lowering soot of the heavens with the blue and yellow phosphoric fires , which sparkled 2 THE FROZEN PIRATE .
... it was sicken- ing and affrighting . The heads of the Andean peaks of black water looked tall enough to brush the lowering soot of the heavens with the blue and yellow phosphoric fires , which sparkled 2 THE FROZEN PIRATE .
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... fire , and we could not therefore dress our food or obtain a warm drink . The cold was beyond language severe . The rigging was glazed with ice , and great pendants of the silvery brilliance of crystal hung from the yards , bowsprit ...
... fire , and we could not therefore dress our food or obtain a warm drink . The cold was beyond language severe . The rigging was glazed with ice , and great pendants of the silvery brilliance of crystal hung from the yards , bowsprit ...
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... fire . I could hear the masts breaking overhead - the crash and blows of spars and yards torn down and striking the hull ; above all the grating of the vessel , that was now head on to the sea and swept by the billows , broadside on ...
... fire . I could hear the masts breaking overhead - the crash and blows of spars and yards torn down and striking the hull ; above all the grating of the vessel , that was now head on to the sea and swept by the billows , broadside on ...
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... fire floating on the blue heavings . But nothing more that was living did I meet , and such was the vastness of the sea over which my little keel glided , in the midst of which I sat abandoned by the angels , that for utter loneliness I ...
... fire floating on the blue heavings . But nothing more that was living did I meet , and such was the vastness of the sea over which my little keel glided , in the midst of which I sat abandoned by the angels , that for utter loneliness I ...
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... fire , a corposant , the ignis fatuus of the deep , and hailed it with a seaman's faith in its promise of gentle weather . But to my distempered fancy it was a lanthorn hung up by a spirit hand ; I traced the dusky curve of an arm and ...
... fire , a corposant , the ignis fatuus of the deep , and hailed it with a seaman's faith in its promise of gentle weather . But to my distempered fancy it was a lanthorn hung up by a spirit hand ; I traced the dusky curve of an arm and ...
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