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... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ......................... 57 4 Robert Louis Stevenson RECORDS OF A FAMILY OF ENGINEERS by Robert Louis Stevenson INTRODUCTION THE SURNAME OF STEVENSON F... ...an in Ayrshire, and several other lesser places. 5 Records of a Family of Engineers were members of Parliament for Peebles, Stirling, Pittenweem, Kil... ...big- wig at the time of the ‘Fifteen, and was afterwards drowned in Dundee harbour while going on board his ship. With this exception, the generations... ...Satur- days.’ ‘Westhaven, 17 th July. ‘I have been occupied to-day at the harbour of New- port, opposite Dundee, and am this far on my way to Arbroat... ...tons lying on the sands upon her beam-ends, and a wreck for want of a good harbour. Cap- tain Wilson – to whom I beg my compliments – will show you a ... ...and with clearness. ‘You are not, I hope, neglecting, Charles, to work the harbour at spring-tides; and see that you pay the greatest attention to get... ...and a modifier of nature itself. A road to be made, a tower to be built, a harbour to be constructed, a river to be trained and guided in its channel ...

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...d been barred out of Sulaco by the prevailing calms of its vast gulf. Some harbours of the earth are made difficult of access by the treachery of sunk... ...e sunshine just out- side the cloud veil, and opposite the entrance to the harbour of Sulaco, bear the name of “The Isabels.” There is the Great Isabe... ... chopped with an axe out of the regular sweep of the coast, right into the harbour of Sulaco. It is an oblong, lake-like piece of water. On one side t... ...es between the moun- tains and the plain, at some little distance from its harbour and out of the direct line of sight from the sea. CHAPTER TWO THE O... ... from the sea. CHAPTER TWO THE ONLY SIGN of commercial activity within the harbour, visible from the beach of the Great Isabel, is the square blunt en... ... European residents; that is, by Captain Mitchell himself and the staff of engineers building the road, aided by the Italian and Basque workmen who ra... ... chief on the wall. Even when he was cooking for the “Signori Inglesi”—the engineers (he was a famous cook, though the kitchen was a dark place)—he wa... ...e hens made off in all directions, with immense strides; if there were any engineers from 28 Nostromo up the line staying in Sulaco, a young English ... ...ulaco. He looked more English than the last arrived batch of young railway engineers, than anybody out of the hunting-field pictures in the numbers of...

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...nila, insurance an’ all, in fwhat they stowed aboard her. They lef’ Boston Harbour for the great Grand Bank wid a roarin’ nor’wester behind ‘em an’ al... .... Los Angeles called to San Diego and Barstow that the Southern California engineers might know and be ready in their lonely roundhouses; Barstow pass... ...ry one of those said trains must be notified. Sixteen locomotives, sixteen engineers, and sixteen firemen would be needed-each and every one the best ... ...t Madison, Cheyne passed over to the Amalgamated Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers an endowment sufficient to enable them to fight him and his fello... ...im and his fellows on equal terms for evermore. He paid his obligations to engineers and firemen as he believed they deserved, and only his bank knows... ...ought most of command- ing watch on broad decks, and looking into far-away harbours. Mrs. Cheyne had spoken privately to the unaccount- able Manuel in... ...nickel-plated binnacles, and pink-and-white- striped awnings puffed up the harbour, flying the burgee of some New Y ork club. Two young men in what th... ... his father’ s most private papers in the safe to the tug in San Francisco harbour. “It’ s a deal,” said Cheyne at the last. “Y ou’ll alter your mind ... ...at in the presence of the two women, and it is hard to be funny with green harbour-water widening between good friends. “Up jib and fores’l!” shouted ...

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...ilated as it were. But he left her very seldom. All the time I remained in harbour I saw him only twice on shore. 16 Falk On the first occasion it wa... ...d all alone in his cabin—like a wild beast? That’s what Falk ex- pects his engineers to put up with for fifteen dollars extra. And the rows on board e... ...ed that the man had been thrown off his balance by being hauled out of the harbour against his wish. His stolidity had been profoundly stirred, else h... ...ng on eternally upon all the oceans, under all the skies, in innumer- able harbours. And suddenly I heard Falk’s voice declare that he could not marry...

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...nism, its rotating planes a golden haze in the sunset, sink humming to the harbour of its shed again, they turned back towards the sunken green- groce... ...uliar construc- tion halted by the roadside, with a number of businesslike engineers grouped about them watching through field-glasses some sort of en... ...he left, at a minute wide prospect of weald and downland, at dim towns and harbours and rivers and rib- bon-like roads, at ships and ships, decks and ... ... full of drawings done in the peculiar flat style and conventional colours engineers adopt. And, in, addition there were some rather under-exposed pho... ...ed the only really habitable part of the ship. If anything went wrong, the engineers went aft along a rope ladder be- neath the frame. The tendency of... ...gine-room, and the fires flying out of her fur- naces, and the stokers and engineers scalded and dead. Men I’ve messed with, Smallways—men I’ve talked... ...et foot. She was an ethnic whirlpool. The flags of all nations flew in her harbour, and at the climax, the yearly coming and going overseas num- bered... ...ment shed within view of the Ameri- can side. They made a sort of hole and harbour for him; they met completely overhead. He looked across the rapids,... ...e town destroyed and two big liners, with dead still aboard, sunken in the harbour. From there they got canned food and material for repairs, but thei...

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...ore signboards than men to own them. It may chance it is a full day in the harbour; he will then have seen all manner of ships, from men-of-war and de... ...thralls, many of them wild negritos from the west, have taken to the bush, harbour there in a state partly bestial, or creep into the back quarters of... .... The offender is killed, or punished and forgiven. We, on the other hand, harbour malice for a period of years: continuous shame at- taches to the cr... ...hed from his countrymen. Yet it was long rumoured that he still lay in the harbour; and so late as October 7th, a boy, who had been paddling round the... ...ts,” he wrote, “had an armed force in the field within a few miles of this harbour, when the vessels under your command transported the Tamasese troop... ... sole survivor of thirteen sail. He thanked his men, and in particular the engineers, in a speech of unusual feeling 124 A Footnote to History and be...

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...f Tears, and the next day they put in at Steamer Point, north-west of Aden harbour, to take in coal. This matter of fuelling steamers is a serious one... ...the Gibraltar of the Indian Ocean, and the vast cisterns where the English engineers were still at work, two thousand years after the engineers of Sol... ... landed on one of the quays. The Rangoon was moored half a mile off in the harbour, its signal of departure hoisted at the mast-head. Eleven o’clock w... ...y gracefully for them. At eleven o’clock the Rangoon rode out of Singapore harbour, and in a few hours the high mountains of Malacca, with their fores... ...r through the flotilla of junks, tankas, and fishing boats which crowd the harbour of Hong Kong. At one o’clock the Rangoon was at the quay, and the p... ...; at half-past nine, it being then high tide, the Carnatic would leave the harbour. Mr. Fogg and Aouda got into the palanquin, their luggage being bro... ...stead of sixteen thousand allowed for the work done on the plains. But the engineers, instead of violating nature, avoided its difficulties by wind- i... ...y delighted, and found the plan a very feasible one. He told stories about engineers leaping their trains over rivers with- out bridges, by putting on...

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...ats in the course of that nautical operation. Then, all my crew assisting, engineers and firemen included, by the ex- ercise of much anxious ingenuity... ...oner. Robinson’s story is too ingenious altogether. That other tale of the engineers of the Nan-Shan finding Schultz at midnight in the engine-room bu... ...now afternoon, the sun being behind the two vessels as they headed for the harbour. “The beetle’s little joke shall soon be over,” thought Jasper, wit... ...at any rate, there’s an end of the famous Bonito. I have just heard in the harbour-office that she must have gone on at the very top of high-water; an... ...er own boats which directly they reached the town were sequestrated by the harbour authorities. The vessel, too, was sequestrated pend- ing proceeding...

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...iron-bound, surf-beat, with only here and there an an- chorage where you dare not lie, or a harbour impossible to enter with the wind that blows. The ... ...ll that he possessed in that same accursed, down-falling England, whence skilled mechanics, engineers, millwrights, and carpenters were fleeing as fro... ...n an officer; of the East Indies, where in former years he had lived lavishly; of the Royal Engineers, where he had served for a period; and of a doze... .... Yet freely and personally as he spoke, many points remained obscure in his narration. The Engineers, for instance, was a service which he praised hi... ... England and America, the stowaway will often make a good profit out of his adventure. Four engineers stowed away last summer on the same ship, the Ci... ...e. As a matter of fact, he was known to several on board, and even intimate with one of the engineers; but it was plainly not the etiquette of such oc... ...Mr. Jones. Before noon of the second Sunday we sighted the low shores out- side of New York harbour; the steerage passengers must re- main on board to...

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... we discovered that the place was really a boarding house for some English engineers engaged at 37 Joseph Conrad the works of the St. Gothard Tunnel;... ...his body. The whole crew of the steamer, with the exception of firemen and engineers, rushed up the jetty, past the thoughtful Almayer, and vanished f... ...them into the bag conscientiously. Having noth- ing to do I joined our two engineers at the door of the engine- room. It was near breakfast-time. “He’... ... crew, in the little bit of a canal behind the fort at the entrance of the harbour. The deserted quays looked very white and dry in the moonlight, and... ...s. Before she had gone in a quarter of a mile she hoisted her flag, as the harbour regulations prescribe for arriving and departing ships. I saw it su...

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...e discovered that the place was really a boarding-house for some En- glish engineers engaged at the works of the St. Gothard Tunnel; and I could liste... ...his body. The whole crew of the steamer, with the exception of firemen and engineers, rushed up the jetty past the thoughtful Almayer and vanished fro... ...them into the bag conscientiously. Hav- ing nothing to do I joined our two engineers at the door of the engine-room. It was near breakfast time. “He’s... ... crew, in the little bit of a canal behind the Fort at the entrance of the harbour. The deserted quays looked very white and dry in the moonlight and ... ...es. Before she had gone in a quarter of a mile she hoisted her flag as the harbour regulations prescribe for arriving and departing ships. I saw it su...

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...wler hat, a complete suit of a brownish hue, and clumsy black boots. These harbour togs gave to his thick figure an air of stiff and uncouth smartness... ... Typhoon the cottage, she found occasion to remark, “As Solomon says: ‘the engineers that go down to the sea in ships behold the won- ders of sailor n... ... into Fu-chau. Her arrival was at once noticed on shore, and the seamen in harbour said: “Look! Look at that steamer. What’s that? Siamese — isn’t she...

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...to bits whenever they want to do so, or to smash and sink any ships in its harbour. They can hit it on every side. Consider, moreover, that there are ... ...e-neck it were conducted from the coast of Norway, where these pests might harbour in a hundred fiords. Con- sider too what this weapon may be in twen... ...s chooses his doctors as persons able to secure health, and his electrical engineers as persons able to attend to his tram ways, lighting, etc., etc.;...

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...truth, it is only some gear of the steam ventilator; and you will find the engineers at hand, and may step out of their door into the sunlight. For al... ...toleration. Here, in the last century, an old Heriot’s Hos- pital boy once harboured from the pursuit of the police. The Hospital is next door to Grey... ...usly with 39 Robert Louis Stevenson fans, but crowding to the tail of the harbour with a shawl about their ears, may still look vainly for brave Scot...

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...d great uneasiness in Liverpool, she entered the basin of the company. The engineers visited the Scotia, which was put in dry dock. They could scarcel... ...he har- pooner—commander, officers, masters, sailors, cabin boys; even the engineers left their engines, and the stokers their furnaces. The order to ... ...ville gave the name of Isle de la Recherche, and exactly facing the little harbour of Vanou, situated in 16º 4' S. lat., and 164º 32' E. long. The ear... ... in the Pacific, cast anchor before Vanikoro, 7th July, 1827, in that same harbour of Vanou where the Nautilus was at this time. There it collected nu... ... 14th, and not until the 20th did he cast anchor within the barrier in the harbour of Vanou. On the 23rd, several officers went round the island and b... ...ent Captain Nemo will be shut up in his room, probably in bed. Neither the engineers nor the ship’s crew can see us. Conseil and I will gain the centr... ...hich opens about ten yards beneath the sur- face of the ocean. This is its harbour of refuge, a sure, commodious, and mysterious one, sheltered from a... ...ly with the motive of destroy- ing it. Captain Anderson, the officers, and engineers con- sulted together, and had it posted up that, if the of- fende...

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...rtain, but for the circumstance that the Englishman hap- pened to visit his prison. It was one of the vile old prisons of Italy, and a part of it was ... ...ties but the one great extremity, sea-sickness—who was a mere bilious torso, with a mislaid headache somewhere in its stomach—who had been put into a ... ...em as highly respectable and virtuous trades- men. Looking about me, I see the light of Cape Grinez well astern of the boat on the davits to leeward, ... .... So strangely goes the time, and on the whole so quickly— though still I seem to have been on board a week—that I am bumped, rolled, gurgled, washed ... ... 178 ered with green hair as if it were the mermaids’ favourite combing-place—where one crawls to the surface of the jetty, like a stranded shrimp, bu... ... tempers with an old hulk, very green as to her cop- per, and generally dim and patched, I pull off my hat to her. Which salutation a callow and downy... ... are knocked away with The Uncommercial Traveller 305 handspikes; and the port-side bulwark, barren but a mo- ment ago, bursts into a crop of heads o...

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... when the Flash freighted with materials for building a new house left the harbour of Batavia, taking away the young couple into the unknown Borneo, s... ...grew civil. Almayer began building his new house for the use of the future engineers, agents, or settlers of the new Company. He spent every available... ... his stockade), but through the agency of that potentate’s prime minister, harbour master, financial adviser, and general factotum. That gentleman—of... ... been safe for many years in the hol- low of your hand. This is no time to harbour suspicions. The danger is very great. We should advise and act at o...

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...breast. He was en- larging upon the complex difficulty of making Boscastle Harbour in bad weather, when suddenly and quite irrelevantly his companion ... ...nging of some sailors aboard one of the little slate-carrying ships in the harbour, the evening was very still. Outside, the spikes of monkshood and d... ...ev- erything is ready. The people are drilled, the wind-vane po- lice, the engineers, and half the way-gearers are with us. We have the halls crowded—... ... aspect of the life of the nineteenth century, to see, perhaps, the little harbour of Boscastle about him, the cliffs of Pentargen, or the bedroom of ... ...privileged and rich, the closest trades union in the world, and so are the engineers of the wind vanes. We have the air, and the mastery of the air is... ... businesses have vanished long ago, but there are store servers, managers, engineers of a hundred sorts. T onight is a holiday of course, and every da...

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...dini, Davila, Polydore V ergil, Buchanan, Mariana, Camden, and others. The engineers were commanded by Regiomontanus and Wilkins. The rest was a confu... ...st of France, which will destroy many of their ships, and some in the very harbour. The 11th will be famous for the revolt of a whole prov ince or ki...

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...oves me … what need of more?’ The peace of perfect bliss, the peace of the harbour reached after storm, of the end attained, that heavenly peace which... ...talking of Elena’s marriage, to his partner at cards, a retired general of engineers. ‘You have heard,’ he observed with a show of carelessness, ‘my d... ...ll two-masted ship, which was riding at anchor at the very entrance of the harbour. Elena and Renditch got into the ship; the sailors carried in the b...

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... thousand men, spade- men, barrow-men, stone-builders, rammers, with their engineers, are at work on the Champ-de-Mars; hollowing it out into a natura... ...Likewise that the Patriot officers, more numerous too in the Artillery and Engineers than elsewhere, were few in number; yet that having the soldiers ... ... of the Medes and Persians. Dissident contumacious Priests ought not to be harboured, even in private, by any man: the Club of the Cordeliers openly d... ...arine-Minister. Do not her Ships and King’s Ships lie rotting piecemeal in harbour; Naval Officers mostly fled, and on furlough too, with pay? Little ... ...ope mainly that it will be found inexecutable. King’s Ships lie rotting in harbour, their officers gone; the Armies disorganised; robbers scour the hi...

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... gines three or four hundred yards to the sea. Five hun dred carpenters and engineers were immediately set at work to prepare the greatest engine the... ...liver’ s Travels – Swift 39 as our scouts assured us, lay at anchor in the harbour, ready to sail with the first fair wind. I consulted the most exp... ...ived at the port of Maldonada (for so it is called) there was no ship in the harbour bound for Luggnagg, nor likely to be in some time. The town is ab... ... ever they see a funeral, they lament and repine that others have gone to a harbour of rest to which they themselves never can hope to arrive. They h...

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...VII. Thomas Stevenson. My materials for my great-grandfather are al- most null; for my grandfather copious and excellent. Name, a puzzle. A Scottish ... ...useful of Boys. I could finish my grandfather very easy now; my father and Uncle Alan stop the way. I propose to call the book: North- ern Lights: Mem... ...houts and cries from Tanugamanono and the town keeping up an all night corybantic chorus in the moonlight—the moon rose late— and the search-light of ...

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...tertain in his house the of- ficers of the foreign men-of-war visiting the harbour. For Englishmen he had a preference, as for old com- panions in arm... ...ronged man,’ I observed, coldly. ‘Well, I think so, too: and you have been harbouring an enemy of your cause.’ “‘He was a poor Christian crying for he... ... have been hunted out of that long ago. Who knows how many spies they have harboured right in the very midst of our camps? A safe-conduct from the Com... ...o open his mouth to give any sort of order. She was as much of a terror in harbour as at sea. You could never be certain what would hold her. On the s... ...ose valour necessarily must be of a more plod- ding kind. As to gunners or engineers, whose heads are kept cool on a diet of mathematics, it is simply...

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...d in the contentious times of the last Stewarts we were severely fined for harbouring and resetting intercommuned ministers, and narrowly es- caped gi... ...ct the identity of her guest with the Chrystal Croftangry against whom she harboured so much dislike. The night was fine and frosty, though, when I pr... ...ifference to height and hollow, steep or level, indicated by the old Roman engineers. Still, however, the substantial excellence of these great works—... ...e and their power. He that cannot execute vengeance like a man, should not harbour useless enmity like a craven. Mother, young Barcaldine is true and ...

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... Sol; ‘when she took fire, four days’ sail with a fair wind out of Jamaica Harbour, in the night—‘ ‘There were two brothers on board,’ interposed his ... ...years before, had made themselves merry with the wild railroad theories of engineers, and given them the liveliest rubs in cross-examination, went dow... ...th some contemptuous incredulity as to Miss T ox having the presumption to harbour such a superior quality . ‘That woman, Sir,’ said the Major, ‘is, i... ...d that the wind was truly in his sail, when he highsted of it for Barbados Harbour. Mr Carker,’ said the Captain, in the good- ness of his nature, ‘wh... ...me show, all canting the same story, all whining the same professions, all harbouring the same transparent secret.’ His brother withdrew, without sayi... ...rs with that entirely friendly feel- ing towards him that I should wish to harbour in my breast. We cannot always command our feelings, Captain Gills,...

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... Sol; ‘when she took fire, four days’ sail with a fair wind out of Jamaica Harbour, in the night—‘ ‘There were two brothers on board,’ interposed his ... ...years before, had made themselves merry with the wild railroad theories of engineers, and given them the liveliest rubs in cross-examination, went dow... ...th some contemptuous incredulity as to Miss T ox having the presumption to harbour such a superior quality . ‘That woman, Sir,’ said the Major, ‘is, i...

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...ur grandpapa Beltham, Richie. Good acres—good anchorage; good coffers—good harbourage. Regarding poetry, my dear boy, you ought to be writing it, for ... ...insects. The lightning and the deluge seemed gloriously endless. Ottilia’s harbouring nook was dry within an inch of rushing floods and pattered mire.... ...d the tenant to the windows in desire for it, gave me 439 George Meredith harbourage. Till dusk I scoured the town to find Miss Goodwin, with- out wh... ...med in the latter idea on hearing that he had sailed to visit the opposite harbour and docks on board my father’s yacht. Janet shared my se- cret opin... ...us tricks. ‘Ay, you have not known me, Richie,’ said he. ‘I pilot you into harbour, and all you can do is just the creaking of the vessel to me. You a... ...d into a house by a young English lady, daugh- ter of a retired Colonel of Engineers of our army. The colo- nel was an exile from his country for no g...

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...erned head-stocks, the black railway with the trucks at rest looked like a harbour just be- low, a large bay of railroad with anchored wagons. Near th... ...lly Gerald got hold of everything. And then began the great reform. Expert engineers were introduced in every department. An enormous electric plant w... ... and delicate system ran almost per- fectly. He had a set of really clever engineers, both mining and electrical, and they did not cost much. A highly...

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...yes, the second of the group, was the wife of an officer of the United States Engineers, and as our history is not further concerned with her it will s... ... intolerable ennui of surviving his genial sire. He wondered whether he were harbouring “love” for this spontaneous young woman from Albany; but he ju... ...ments should some day prove a sort of blessing in disguise—a clear and quiet harbour enclosed by a brave granite breakwater. But that day could only c...

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..., the second of the group, was the wife of an officer of the United States Engineers, and as our history is not further concerned with her it will suf... ... of 77 Henry James surviving his genial sire. He wondered whether he were harbouring “love” for this spontaneous young woman from Albany; but he judg... ...nts should some day prove a sort of blessing in disguise—a clear and quiet harbour enclosed by a brave granite breakwater. But that day could only com...

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... erecting for themselves prodigious undertakings, which would astonish the engineers of the great European nations. Thus democracy not only leads men ... ...ipal manufacturer; he collects and retains in his service a vast number of engineers, architects, mechanics, and handicraftsmen. Not only is he the pr... ...f, under pain of forfeiting twenty shillings; that no vessel shall leave a harbour of the colony; that no persons shall keep outside the meeting-house...

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...in laughed, and said he would send his acquaintance (Major Wagstaff of the Engineers) a piece of cake when that event took place. At length Captain Os... ...by the sight of the transports con- veying her regiment, which entered the harbour almost at the 273 Thackeray same time with the Lovely Rose. Jos we... ...he Armada, as by the fines and confiscations levied on it by Elizabeth for harbouring of priests, obstinate recusancy, and popish misdoings. A recrean...

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...censure. This was in 1837, when he commanded the Romney lying in the inner harbour of Havannah. The Romney was in no proper sense a man-of-war; she wa... ...t if the slave were kept, the Romney would be or- dered at once out of the harbour, and the object of the Mixed Commission compromised. Without consul... ...o the level of a ground floor above the land, which, not being built upon, harbours puddles, ponds, pigs, and Irish hovels; – so to the dock warehouse... ...ther; and Fleeming was to her the nameless assistant of a nameless firm of engineers, doing his inglori- ous business, as she now saw for herself, amo... ... Thomson and Mr. Varley in many ingenious patents, his growing credit with engineers and men of science; and he is to bear in mind that of all this ac... ...uld think so. 61 Robert Louis Stevenson ‘He then applied to those eminent engineers, R. S. Newall & Co., who made and laid down a cable for him last ... ..., heard, “Let go the anchor,” whereon I concluded we had run into Holyhead Harbour, as was indeed the case. All that day we lay in Holyhead, but I cou... ...ry, some grandeur in them. ‘May 29 (?). ‘YESTERDAY WE RAN round to the new harbour [of Alexan- dria], landed the shore end of the cable close to Cleop... ...hile Fleeming’s sky was still unclouded, he was reading Smiles. ‘I read my engineers’ lives steadily,’ he writes, ‘but find biographies depressing. I ...

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...idding me “c’way oot amang the sheep.” The quiet- est recesses of the hill harboured this ogre; I skulked in my favourite wilderness like a Cameronian... ...n every part of the world, guiding the mari- ner; his firm were consulting engineers to the Indian, the 59 Memories and Portraits New Zealand, and th... ...hew, David Alan Stevenson, joined with him at the time of his death in the engineership, is the sixth of the family who has held, successively or conj... ...d erected no fewer than twenty-seven; of beacons,* about twenty-five. Many harbours were successfully carried out: one, the harbour of Wick, the chief... ...roceeded from, and acted back upon, his daily busi- ness. Thus it was as a harbour engineer that he became in- terested in the propagation and reducti... ...ve held their course; and now, without open shame, they near the crown and harbour. It may be we have been struck with one of fortune’s darts; we can ...

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... the unfolding record of behaviour it is the stewardesses and bandsmen and engineers—persons of the trade-union class—who shine as brightly as any. An... ...ill probably lead to a retire- ment of the battle fleet to some east coast harbour, a refuge liable to aeroplanes, or to the west coast of Ireland—and... ...organise them, to secure the pick of our young chemists and physicists and engineers, and to get them to work systematically upon the anticipation and... ...or to Ellis Island, the receiving station for the immigrants into New York Harbour. One goes to this place by tugs from the United States barge office... ...uous in the human economy, but as positively dan- gerous on account of the harbour they afford for those bac- teria that accelerate the decay of age. ... ...l among the trees and rocks, this curi- ous new thing-began to make itself harbours of its own; was food irregular, it multiplied food. It began to sp...

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...ry badly wanted in a South American port for the little matter of entering harbour at full speed, colliding with a coal-hulk and the State’s only man-... ...the headquarters of the colony, and when Mr. Wardrop saw the dismal little harbour, with its ragged line of Chinese junks, its one crazy tug, and the ... ...ountry; and if only some one would buy the unhappy Haliotis, moored in the harbour be- low his verandah, his cup would be full. He looked at the neatl... ...ed, his one garment a green-and-yellow loin-cloth, saw the Haliotis in the harbour, and bellowed for joy. The men crowded to the verandah-rail, kickin... .... We’ll go aboard and take an inventory. See!” He waved his hands over the harbour. “We—live—there— now. Sorry?” The Governor smiled a smile of relief... ...ivers, but he did not call 007 his “Arab steed,” nor cry over him, as the engineers did in the newspapers. He just bad worded 007, and pulled yards ... ...sick the second day out. He believes in throwing boots at fourth and fifth engineers when they wake him up at night with word that a bearing is redhot... ... read the Lloyds column in the pa- pers, and called on the wives of senior engineers of equal so- cial standing. Once or twice, too, Mrs. Holdock visi... ...d she introduced me to a new world of doctors’ wives, captains’ wives, and engineers’ wives, whose whole talk and thought centred in and about ships a...

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... of drouth, Loud-voiced and reckless as the wild tide-race That whips our harbour-mouth! SYDNEY Greeting! My birth-stain have I turned to good; F... ...Street Joe, At twilight, when the landward breeze Brings up the harbour noise, And ebb of Yokohama Bay Swigs chattering through ... ...rboard-bower out, apeak, awash, and clear. Port — port she casts, with the harbour-mud beneath her foot, And that’s the last o’ bottom we shall see t... ...l, full and by; but she’ll smell her road alone to-night. Sick she is and harbour-sick — O sick to clear the land! Roll down to Brest with the old Re... ...ill, Young Joshua ordered the sun to stand still, For he was a Captain of Engineers, etc. When the Children of Israel made bricks without straw, They... ...ect — that’s us; V erses 1889 to 1896 281 An’ they call us Her Majesty’s Engineers, Her Majesty’s Royal Engineers, With the rank and pay of a Sapp...

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...and steppe lying dumbly on the confines of two conti- nents: a true desert harbouring no Spirit either of the East or of the West. This pitiful fate o... ...rdly half that of the Titanic. She came into the Cove (as that part of the harbour is called), of course very slowly, and at some hun- dred feet or so... ...and four hundred of poor devils of waiters) to meet dangers which, let the engineers say what they like, lurk always amongst the waves; sent with a bl... ...ally the same. It would strike you and me and our little boys (who are not engineers yet) that to approach—I won’t say attain—somewhere near absolute ... ...of the Merchant Service have never failed to do. I know very well that the engineers of a ship in a mo- ment of emergency are not quaking for their li... ...ian either? There must have been, since one ship was just out of a dock or harbour and the other just arriv- ing. That is the time, if ever, when cork...

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... pier, all looking out to sea, and she now beheld two boats making for the harbour. Then she had to ride between walls and villas, and lost sight of a... ...pped up.” “Very likely,” said Gerald coolly. “Those precious surveyors and engineers that Walsh brings down can give an account of them! As soon as yo... ...Home,” a vessel showing signs of storm and struggle just at the verge of a harbour lost in golden light. And the helmsman’s face? Clement and Lance ne... ...its by means of the sailors in the foreign traders who put into the little harbour of Rockquay; but her daughter was scarcely cognizant of this, and w...

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... God, what sounds are these; muffled ominous, new in our centuries? Boston Harbour is black with unexpected Tea: behold a Pennsylvanian Congress gathe... ...the huge work- ing-wheel hangs motionless, refuses to stir! The cunningest engineers are at fault. How will it work, when it does begin? Fearfully, my... ...ully their high heads; they may beat their poor brains; but the cunningest engineers can do nothing. Necker himself, were he even listened to, begins ... ...n thousand men, spade-men, barrow-men, stone-builders, rammers, with their engineers, are at work on the Champ-de-Mars; hollowing it out into a natura... ...Likewise that the Patriot officers, more numerous too in the Artillery and Engineers than elsewhere, were few in num- ber; yet that having the soldier... ... of the Medes and Persians. Dissident contumacious Priests ought not to be harboured, even in private, by any man: the Club of the Cordeliers openly d... ...arine-Minister. Do not her Ships and King’s Ships lie rotting piecemeal in harbour; Naval Officers mostly fled, and on furlough too, with pay? Little ... ...ope mainly that it will be found inexecutable. King’s Ships lie rotting in harbour, their officers gone; the Armies disorganised; robbers scour the hi... ...s, what man shall sum? The Bar of Iron has never yet floated in Marseilles Harbour; but the Body of Rebecqui was found floating, self-drowned there. H...

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... God, what sounds are these; muffled ominous, new in our centuries? Boston Harbour is black with unexpected Tea: behold a Pennsylvanian Con- gress gat... ..., the huge working-wheel hangs motionless, refuses to stir! The cunningest engineers are at fault. How will it work, when it does begin? Fearfully, my... ...ully their high heads; they may beat their poor brains; but the cunningest engineers can do nothing. Necker himself, were he even listened to, begins ...

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...o the sea; so that the ship was car- ried—back without the owners into the harbour. Tyrants, at once both to kill and to make their anger felt, have e... ..., he says, that it, was his custom to be night and day with the pioneers.—[Engineers. D.W.]—In all enterprises of consequence he always recon- noitred...

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...nt leaves. There was no wind to make a ripple on the foul water within the harbour, or on the beautiful sea without. The line of de- marcation between... ...e at night, and out of a boat, but I know where I am. See here! Marseilles harbour;’ on his knees on the pavement, mapping it all out with a swarthy f... ...away to the left here, Nice. Round by the Cornice to Genoa. Genoa Mole and Harbour. Quarantine Ground. City there; terrace gardens blushing with the b... ... in the new plea- sure of recovering their freedom, but flitted across the harbour in gay boats, and reassembled at a great hotel, whence the sun was ... ... knew that some of these specks even represented Christopher as capable of harbouring designs in ‘that head,’ and as being a crafty impostor. Other mo... ...sions on the map of the world, had occasion for the services of one or two engineers, quick in invention and determined in execution: practical men, w...