The Life of a Sailor, Volume 3R. Bentley, 1832 |
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... friends ? Are they at hand , some comfort to deliver ? O'er the sick couch some sooty negress bends , And she must close those eyes in death for ever- Those eyes a slave , a foreigner shall close , And bear the body to its last repose ...
... friends ? Are they at hand , some comfort to deliver ? O'er the sick couch some sooty negress bends , And she must close those eyes in death for ever- Those eyes a slave , a foreigner shall close , And bear the body to its last repose ...
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... and affectionately was I embraced by the best of pa- rents , and the truest of friends . In manhood as I was , I could not refrain the tear , which , bursting from the heart , overflowed the eyes , before re- 2 THE LIFE OF A SAILOR .
... and affectionately was I embraced by the best of pa- rents , and the truest of friends . In manhood as I was , I could not refrain the tear , which , bursting from the heart , overflowed the eyes , before re- 2 THE LIFE OF A SAILOR .
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... friend out of the coal - hole . The spare topmast , a part of the jib - boom , and a topmast studding - boom , formed the new rudder , the interstices of which we filled up with the chain - cable . We planked it over all , and it looked ...
... friend out of the coal - hole . The spare topmast , a part of the jib - boom , and a topmast studding - boom , formed the new rudder , the interstices of which we filled up with the chain - cable . We planked it over all , and it looked ...
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... friend , Sir Sydney Smith , ) as any man in the profession : but we were not destined to get out of this hot - bed of fever and of death . We had about four courts - martial in store ; and owing to the squadron , or a sufficient number ...
... friend , Sir Sydney Smith , ) as any man in the profession : but we were not destined to get out of this hot - bed of fever and of death . We had about four courts - martial in store ; and owing to the squadron , or a sufficient number ...
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... friends sent me a keg of tamarinds , which was placed in the corner of the room ; and about the sixth day , when my strength so completely failed as to leave me without the power of speech above a whisper , I saw my two black ladies ...
... friends sent me a keg of tamarinds , which was placed in the corner of the room ; and about the sixth day , when my strength so completely failed as to leave me without the power of speech above a whisper , I saw my two black ladies ...
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