 What to you is all darkness and gloom, to me is as light as if a noon-day sun shone upon it. But tack your ship, sir, tack your ship; I would see how she works before we reach the point where she must behave well, or we perish.  Works - Page 55by James Fenimore Cooper - 1853Full view - About this book
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American literature - 1823 - 306 pages
...melancholy reflections — " You have your wish, then ; much, very much of my early life was pnssed on this dreaded coast. What to you is all darkness and gloom, to me is as light as if a noon day sun shone upon it. But tack your ship, sir, tack your ship ; I would see how she works, befpre... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Sea stories, American - 1824 - 574 pages
...shall we stand on, upon this tack ?" " You have your wish, then ; much, very much of my early life was passed on this dreaded coast. What to you is all darkness...point, where she must behave well, or we perish." The pilot turned slowly from the side of the vessel, and walked towards the commander of the frigate,... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1824 - 924 pages
...by his melancholy reflections — " You have your wish, then ; much, very much of my early life was passed on this dreaded coast. What to you is all darkness and gloom, to me is as light as if a noon day sun shone upon it. But tack your ship, sir, tack your ship; I would see how she works, before... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...calling to the pilot. " Shall I send a hand into the chains, Mr. Gray," ha said, " and try our water !" " Tack your ship, sir, tack your ship ; I would see...Griffith gazed after him in wonder, while the pilot slow ly paced the quarter-deck, and then, rousing from his trance, gave forth the cheering order that... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...to the pilot. „Shall I send a band into the chains, Mr. Gray," he said, „and try our water ?... „Tack your ship, sir, tack your ship; I would see how she works before we reacb the point where she must behave well, or we perish." Griffith gazed after him in wonder, while... | |
 | American prose literature - 1855 - 506 pages
...to the pilot. " Shall I send a hand into the chains, Mr. Gray," he •aid, " and try our water ?" " Tack your ship, sir, tack your ship ; I would see...point, where she must behave well, or we perish." >3 Griffith gazed after him in wonder, while the pilot -lowly paced the quarter-deck, aud then, rousing... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...to the pilot. " Shall I send a hand into the chains, Mr. Gray," he said, '' and try our water ?" " Tack your ship, sir, tack your ship ; I would see how she works before we reach the point where she mutt behave well, or we perish." Griffith gazed after him in wonder, while the pilot slowly paced the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...pilot 272 273 " Shall I send a hand into the chains, Mr. Gray," he said, " and try our water ?" ... " Tack your ship, sir, tack your ship ; I would see how she works before we reach the point where she musf behave well, or we perish." Griffith gazed after him in wonder, while the pilot slowly paced the... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 444 pages
...to the pilot. " Shall I send a hand into the chains, Mr. Gray," he said, " and try our water ?" '"' Tack your ship, sir, tack your ship ; I would see how she works before we reacK the point where she must behave well, or we perish." Griffith gazed after him in wonder, while... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...agitated by his melancholy reflections— " You have your wish, then; much, very much of my early life was passed on this dreaded coast. What to you is all darkness...the point where she must behave well, or we perish " 14. Griffith gazed after him in wonder, while the pilot slowly paced the quarter-deck, and then,... | |
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