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...ation; for as we had the ship ready for sea to the smallest detail, as the frost was hard and the days short, we were absolutely idle— idle to the poi... ...he morning fog had thickened considerably. Everything round us dripped—the derricks, the rails, every single rope in the ship— as if a fit of crying h... ...at apprehension of seeing the ani- mal snatched up to the very head of the derrick. On the wharf Almayer shuffled his straw slippers uneasily. The rat... ...r, his glance anxious and his mouth on the broad grin, was easing over the derrick watchfully. I superin- tended, greatly interested. “So! That will d... ... tended, greatly interested. “So! That will do.” 66 A Personal Record The derrick-head stopped. The kalashes lined the rail. The rope of the halter h... .... The deserted quays looked very white and dry in the moonlight, and as if frostbound in the sharp air of that De- cember night. A prowler or two slun...

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...tion; for, as we had the ship ready for sea to the smallest detail, as the frost was hard and the days short, we were absolutely idle— idle to the poi... ...morning fog had thick- ened considerably. Everything round us dripped: the derricks, the rails, every single rope in the ship— as if a fit of crying h... ...k watchfully. I superintended, greatly interested. “So! That will do.” The derrick-head stopped. The kalashes lined the rail. The rope of the halter h... ...r. The deserted quays looked very white and dry in the moonlight and as if frost-bound in the sharp air of that December night. A prowler or two slunk...

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...clear to the rear of the plantations, from two to four miles. When the first frost threatens to come, the planters snatch off their crops in a hurry. ... ...uld possibly do without it. The “spars,” and sometimes even their supporting derricks, were sent ashore, and no means left to set the boat afloat in c... ... to man the stage, a couple of men and a hatful of steam lowered it from the derrick where it was suspended, launched it, deposited it in just the rig... ...ith white wooden filigree work of fanciful patterns; gilt acorns topping the derricks; gilt deer horns over the big bell; gaudy symbolical picture on ... ... river annually, about the breaking of spring, and is seen no more till next frost. Then he appears again, in damaged homespun, combs the hayseed out ...

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...of the exertion, he seemed to see a momentary shock among the stars, and a diffusion of frosty light pass from one to another along the sky. At the sa... ...rietors had buttressed the building from that side with a great strut of wood, like the derrick of a crane. Altogether, it had many marks of ruin; it ... .... The wind had fallen, but still charioted a world of troubled clouds; the air bit like frost; and the party, as they stood about the ruins in the rai...

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...d her with sail; fifteen sails in all, 34 Robert Louis Stevenson every stay being gratified with a stay-sail, a boat-boom sent aloft for a maintop-ga... ...ier, and I guess I can settle to David Balfour to-morrow or Friday like a little man. I wonder if any one had ever more energy upon so little strength... ... strength?—I know there is a frost, the Samoa book can only increase that—I can’t help it, that book is not written for me but for Miss Manners; but I...

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... from the grip on the steering oar. My feet were stinging from the bite of the frost, and I hoped fervently that the sun would shine. Before me, in th... ...before I knew it, and without one serious hitch, I had the mainmast stepped. A derrick boom, rigged to the foremast, had accomplished this; and severa...

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...ing, but is it Art?” The stone was dropped at the quarry-side and the idle derrick swung, While each man talked of the aims of Art, and each in an ali... ...oar, with the Peter at the fore, And the fenders grind and heave, And the derricks clack and grate, as the tackle hooks the crate, And the fall-rope... ...They count their ships full tale — Their corn and oil and wine, Derrick and loom and bale, And rampart’s gun-flecked line; City ... ...e gathered With sweat and aching bones: In flame beneath the tropics, In frost upon the floe, And jeopardy of every wind That does between them go.... ...ou pass the word along.” So it was “Rounds! What Rounds?” at two of a frosty night, ‘E’s ‘oldin’ on by the sergeant’s sash, but, sentry, sh...

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...t he had hardly started. As he was leaving the house after breakfast, Mrs. Derrick had asked him to go for the mail at Bonneville, and he had not been... ... year. Half of the wheat on the Broderson ranch had failed en- tirely, and Derrick himself had hardly raised more than enough to supply seed for the w... ...t, under a yellow cotton wagon umbrella, Presley recognised Hooven, one of Derrick’s tenants, a German, whom every one called “Bismarck,” an excitable... ... I want to see. Say, Caraher, he tole me dis morgen—say, he tole me Mist’r Derrick gowun to farm der whole demn rench hisseluf der next yahr. No more ... ...ore tenants. Say, Caraher, he tole me all der tenants get der sach; Mist’r Derrick gowun to work der whole demn rench hisseluf, hey? ME, I get der sac... ...tant—a drought on the prairies of Dakota, a rain on the plains of India, a frost on the Russian steppes, a hot wind on the llanos of the Argentine. Ha... ...he sky. The campanile of the ancient Mission of San Juan seemed as fine as frost work. All about between the horizons, the carpet of the land unrolled... ...e private office in an adjoining room, ushering him through a door, on the frosted glass of which was painted the name, “Cyrus Blakelee Ruggles.” Insi... ...aught by a “transparent slate,” a child’s toy, where upon a little pane of frosted glass one could trace with considerable elaboration out- line figur...

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...te Kid arose, cup in hand, and glanced at the greased paper window, where the frost stood full three inches thick. “A health to the man on trail this... ...eck flaps of his great wolfskin cap loosely raised, he seemed, of a verity, the Frost King, just stepped in out of the night. Clasped outside his macki... ...nor could he veil the twinges of agony that shot across his face. Covered with frost, the dogs were curled up in the snow, and it was almost impossibl... ... the snow without a whimper. The stillness was weird; not a breath rustled the frost encrusted forest; the cold and silence of outer space had chille... ...it no longer and fled into the outer cold. But there was no escape. The intense frost could not be endured for long at a time, and the little cabin cro... ... The German, turning a small crank, hoisted the blade to the top of the little derrick he had rigged. A jerk on a stout piece of cord loosed the blade... ...e banana trunk forward under the knife, which he had hoisted to the top of the derrick. Ah Cho tried to remember maxims from “The Tract of the Quiet W...

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...d during my first visit to London, which was for three months in 1760, Mr. Derrick the poet, who was Gentleman’s friend and countryman, flattered me w... ...do what was not in his power; till Johnson some years afterwards told me, ‘Derrick, Sir, might very well have introduced you. I had a kindness for Der... ... London, against Spanish encroachment. I expressed my opinion of my friend Derrick as but a poor writer. Johnson. ‘To be sure, Sir, he is; but you are... ...id of him both as a writer and an editor: ‘Sir, I have often said, that if Derrick’s letters had been written by one of a more established name, they ... ...shed name, they would have been thought very pretty letters.’ And, ‘I sent Derrick to Dryden’s relations to gather materials for his life; and I belie... ...corn, and my trees growing. Now, for instance, I am curious to see if this frost has not nipped my fruit-trees.’ Johnson. (who we did not imag- ine wa... ...e company had repressed. It only puts in motion what has been locked up in frost. But this may be good, or it may be bad.’ Spottiswoode. ‘So, Sir, win...

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... upon a half-camembert; the bodiless arm swinging gently and surely with a derrick- like grace and certainty in my direction …. Not very long after Th... ... filthy head to the soleless slippers with which he promenades in rain and frost: “Merci, Monsieur!” We cut him a piece. He takes it quiveringly, hold...

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... that kind of trim chiseled face that just seems to glint and sparkle with frosty intellectuality! He was a re nowned scientist. I do not know what t... ...ul skies overclouded,” replied the mother, “so many blossoms nipped by the frost, that I am afraid to trust you to the care of those fair days, which ... ...s; it tapers like a carrot; when it stands, it spreads itself apart like a derrick; so I think it is a reptile, though it may be architecture. I was a...

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...O speech how the buds beneath you are folded? Waiting in gloom, protected by frost, The dirt receding before my prophetical screams, Leaves of Grass ... ... and love set from living shores to you on the living sea, to you O sailors! Frost mellow’d berries and Third month twigs offer’d fresh to young perso... ...ing, flagging of sidewalks by flaggers, The pump, the pile driver, the great derrick, the coal kiln and brickkiln, Coal mines and all that is down the...

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...as ponderous and thick, and very palpable in its atoms. Then came a severe frost and a little snow; and if one did not fall while walking, it was very... ...uri. When I was there we were afflicted with a combination of snow, sleet, frost, and wind, with a mixture of ice and mud, that makes me re- gard Miss... ... our great gratification, by the general’s daughter. There had been a hard frost for some nights, but though the cold was very great there was always ... ...und into gluti- nous mud; consequently we had all the roughness induced by frost, but none of the usually attendant cleanliness. Indeed, it seemed tha... ...cleanliness. Indeed, it seemed that in these parts nothing was so dirty as frost. The mud stuck like paste and encompassed ev- erything. We heard that... ...he river, down to the spot where the mortar lay ready to be lifted in by a derrick. But as we turned on the river, the tug-boat which had brought us d...