Belgravia: A London Magazine, Volume 63Chatto and Windus, 1887 |
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... heard blasts more portentous . The gale came on with some lightning and several claps of thunder and heavy rain . Though it was but two o'clock in the afternoon , the air was so dusky that the men had to feel for the ropes ; and when ...
... heard blasts more portentous . The gale came on with some lightning and several claps of thunder and heavy rain . Though it was but two o'clock in the afternoon , the air was so dusky that the men had to feel for the ropes ; and when ...
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... heard no cries . I regained my feet , clinging with a death- grip to the tiller , and , seeing no one near me , tried to holloa , to know if any man were living , but could not make my voice sound . The fearful grating noise ceased on a ...
... heard no cries . I regained my feet , clinging with a death- grip to the tiller , and , seeing no one near me , tried to holloa , to know if any man were living , but could not make my voice sound . The fearful grating noise ceased on a ...
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... heard in a valley . The brig pitched and rolled heavily . Much of the buoyancy of her earlier dance was gone out of her . Nevertheless , I could not persuade myself that this sluggishness was altogether due to the water she had taken in ...
... heard in a valley . The brig pitched and rolled heavily . Much of the buoyancy of her earlier dance was gone out of her . Nevertheless , I could not persuade myself that this sluggishness was altogether due to the water she had taken in ...
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... heard the thunder of their laughter as they fled ahead , leaving scores of like monstrous shapes to follow . There was a faint lightning of phosphor in the creaming heads of the ebon surges , and my sick imagination twisted that pallid ...
... heard the thunder of their laughter as they fled ahead , leaving scores of like monstrous shapes to follow . There was a faint lightning of phosphor in the creaming heads of the ebon surges , and my sick imagination twisted that pallid ...
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... heard afar , and the ice , being resonant , with many smooth if not polished tracts upon it , readily transmitted the sound , yes , though the cause of it lay as far off as the horizon . I will not say that my loneliness frightened me ...
... heard afar , and the ice , being resonant , with many smooth if not polished tracts upon it , readily transmitted the sound , yes , though the cause of it lay as far off as the horizon . I will not say that my loneliness frightened me ...
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