 Will she stay, think ye, under this sail ?" said the low voice of the stranger. " She will do all that man in reason can ask of wood and iron," returned the lieutenant ; " but the vessel don't float the ocean that will tack under double-reefed topsails...  Cooper's Works: The pilot - Page 58by James Fenimore Cooper - 1859Full view - About this book
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...the "lutenant ; " but the vessel don't float the ocean that will tack under double-reefed topsails alone against a heavy sea. Help her with the courses, pilot, and you'll see her come round like a dancing master." " Let us feel the strength of the gale first," returned... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...double-reefed topsails alone, against a heavj .?ea. Help her with the courses, pilot, and you shall " Let us feel the strength of the gale first," returned...stood in silence, looking ahead of the ship, with an air of singular coolness and abstraction. 7. All the lanterns had been extinguished on the deck... | |
 | Horace A. Cleveland - Literature - 1869 - 610 pages
...returned the lieutenant; "but the vessel don't float the ocean that will tack under double-reefed topsails alone, against a heavy sea. Help her with the courses, pilot, and you'll see her come round like a dancing-master." "Let us feel the strength of the gale first," returned... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1871 - 566 pages
...the lieutenant ; a bui the vessel don't float the ocean that will tack under double-reefed topsails alone, against a heavy sea. Help her with the courses,...of the vessel, where he stood in silence, looking abead of the ship, with an air of singular coolness and abstraction. All the lanterns had been extinguished... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...returned the lieutenant; "but the vessel don't float the ocean that will tack under double-reefed topsails alone against a heavy sea. Help her with the courses, pilot, and you'll see her come round like a dancing-master." . " Will she stay, think ye, under this sail ? "... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - United States - 1873 - 208 pages
...don't float the ocean that will tack under double-reefed topsails alone, against a heavy sea.—Help her with the courses, pilot, and you shall see her...of the gale first," returned the man who was called ilr. Gray, moving from the side of Griffith to the weather gangway of the vessel, where he stood in... | |
 | Henry Major - 1873 - 136 pages
...returned the lieutenant; "but the ocean don't float the vessel that will tack under double-reefed topsails alone against a heavy sea. Help her with the courses, pilot, and you'll see her come round like a dancing master." " Let us feel the strength of the gale first," returned... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 pages
...the lieutenant ; " but the vessel don't float the ocean that will tack under double-reefed topsails alone against a heavy sea. Help her with the courses,...he stood in silence looking ahead of the ship with an air of singular coolness and abstraction. All the lanterns had been extinguished on the deck of... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 272 pages
...returned the lieutenant; "but the ocean don't float the vessel that will tack under double-reefed topsails alone against a heavy sea. Help her with the courses, pilot, and you'll see her come round like a dancing master." " Let us feel the strength of the gale first," returned... | |
 | Readers - 1875 - 324 pages
...the lieutenant ; "but the vessel don't float the ocean that will tack under double-reefed topsails alone against a heavy sea. Help her with the courses, pilot, and you'll see her come round like a dancing-master." fith to the weather gangway of the vessel, where... | |
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