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Common terms and phrases
a-head Alceste anchor Archer better blow boat boys breeze cable called cape Antonio Captain Back Captain Ross commander compass crew cruise danger deck drowned east Esquimaux Farewell fire fore forecastle forget Fort Reliance frigate gale God's guns hands haul hear heard heart heave helm hoisted hope hundred island Jack Tars keep Lancaster Sound land larboard lieutenant life-boat look Lord Lord Amherst main-mast Malays man-of-war mast mate mercy messmates missionaries mutineers never night old sea Captain Otaheite Parry pinnace pirates poor port proa raft reef rigging rope round Royal George rudder sail sailors scud seamen seen ship ship's shipwreck shore Sir Hyde soon spirits Spithead squall storm studding sails tack tell terrible Thank thing thought told vessel voyage watch weather whale wind wreck yards yawl
Popular passages
Page 70 - Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought ; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock.
Page 143 - The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 16 Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. 17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.
Page 12 - And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape. But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose ; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land: and the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.
Page 6 - They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Page 80 - though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished,
Page 11 - And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms. 29 Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
Page 308 - made of God unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.
Page 212 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Page 283 - Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear ; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Page 10 - Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.