| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 610 sider
...companion door, and get upon deck; but it was perfect darkness where we were, and I could not find anything to add to my own ineffectual strength, nor could I...to escape, if possible, from the perishing vessel.' — pp. 30, 31. The captain said the brig would go to pieces in a few minutes, and that if Mr. and... | |
| 1831 - 652 sider
...cutting away the wreck of the mainmast, which layover the side — making ready to get the long-boat over the gunwale, to escape, if possible, from the...purpose. By accident I stumbled over an empty stone botiie at the foot of the ladder, with the bottom of which I struck the companion door so violently,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 634 sider
...door, and get upon deck ; but, it was perfect darkness where we were, and I could not find anything to add to my own ineffectual strength, nor could I...to escape, if possible, from the perishing vessel.' — pp. 30, 31. The captain said the brig would go to pieces in a few minutes, and that if Mr. and... | |
| Anonymous - 1832 - 612 sider
...could I make any one on deck attend to me ; they could not hear me for the noise made by the fowling of the wind and the breaking of the sea: yet I sometimes...to escape, if possible, from the perishing vessel.' — pp. 30, 31. The captain said the brig would go to pieces in a few minutes, and that if Mr. and... | |
| Jane Porter - 1856 - 604 sider
...the wind and the breaking of the sea ; yet I sometimes heard them, and could discover that they were making ready to get the long boat over the gunwale to escape. I now became frantic ; and hallooed with all my power, but to no purpose. By accident I stumbled over... | |
| Gleanings - 1882 - 692 sider
...the wind and the breaking of the sea ; yet I sometimes heard them, and could discover that they were making ready to get the long boat over the gunwale to escape. I now Warne frantic ; and hallooed with all my power, but to no purpose. By accident I stumbled over... | |
| 1903 - 1048 sider
...?V. r, • r Kir •*• of the sea ; yet I sometimes heard them, and could discover that they were making ready to get the long boat over the gunwale to escape. I now became frantic ; and hallooed with all my power, but to no purpose. By accident I stumbled over... | |
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